HMS Eagle
British aircraft carrier art prints by Ivan Berryman. Gallery of
Royal Navy aircraft carrier naval prints by Ivan Berryman depicting HMS
Eagle. This gallery includes all prints and paintings by Ivan
Berryman which feature the carrier HMS Eagle.
HMS Eagle was built at Clydebank, and was launched on
the 8th of June 1918, a former Battleship construction suspended in
1914. during world war two HMS Eagle served off China in 1939, East
Indies 1939 - 1940, Mediterranean in 1940 - 1941. and in the South
Atlantic 1941 - 1942 and Force H in 1942, she was sunk by U-73, North of
Algiers on the 11th August 1942.
Capable of carrying 40 planes she was originally destined to be a
battleship for Chile but was bought back and altered. The crane which
can be seen was used to hoist aircraft from the hangars onto the flight
deck. Displacement: 22,600 tons. Speed: 23
knots. Armament: twelve 6 ins guns, four 4 ins AA
guns, four 3 pdr guns and six 21in torpedo tubes.
Complement: 950.
HMS Eagle entered service in October 1951 and
was a sister ship to HMS Ark Royal. Her most well known role was in the
Suez assisting the Anglo-French ground forces. Displacement: 43, 340 tons (1957), 54,100 tons (1964).
Draught: 33ft. Compliment: 2500. Length:
804 ft. Beam: 135 ft. Speed:
32
Knots. Armament: Sixteen 4.5 inch guns
in pairs with 40mm Bofors in various arrangements.
Aircraft: 65.
