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Index HMS Ark Royal (R09)

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier.[1]

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  1. 109 relations: Airborne early warning and control, Aircraft carrier, Aircraft catapult, AN/SPN-35, Annapolis, Maryland, Anthony Griffin (Royal Navy officer), Arresting gear, Atlantic Ocean, Barnsley, BBC, Beira Patrol, Belize, Birkenhead, Blackburn Buccaneer, Blockade, Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun, British Aerospace Sea Harrier, British Honduras, Cairnryan, Cambridge, Cammell Laird, Captain (Royal Navy), CATOBAR, Central America, Ceremonial ship launching, Cold War, Constitutional monarchy, Court-martial, CVA-01, De Havilland Sea Venom, De Havilland Sea Vixen, Dennis Cambell, Desmond Cassidi, Douglas A-1 Skyraider, Dudley Moore, E. Chambré Hardman, East of Suez, Edward Rosebery Anson, Egypt, Elizabeth II, Fairey Gannet, Fairey Gannet AEW.3, Fixed-wing aircraft, Fleet Air Arm Museum, Flight deck, Fly on the wall, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frank Hopkins (Royal Navy officer), George VI, Grumman TBF Avenger, ... Expand index (59 more) »

  2. Audacious-class aircraft carriers
  3. Cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom
  4. Maritime incidents in 1970

Airborne early warning and control

An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack aircraft.

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Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Aircraft catapult

An aircraft catapult is a device used to allow aircraft to take off in a limited distance, typically from the deck of a vessel.

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AN/SPN-35

The AN/SPN-35 is a computerized automatic landing system installed on the Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship and other LHA/LHD-class warships to give control for aircraft during the final approach and landing.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Anthony Griffin (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Anthony Templer Frederick Griffith Griffin (24 November 1920 – 16 October 1996) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Controller of the Navy (1971–1975) and chairman of British Shipbuilders (1977–1980).

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Arresting gear

An arresting gear, or arrestor gear, is a mechanical system used to rapidly decelerate an aircraft as it lands.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barnsley

Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beira Patrol

The Beira Patrol was a blockade of oil shipments to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) through Beira, Mozambique, resulting from United Nations trade sanctions on Rhodesia.

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Belize

Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.

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Blackburn Buccaneer

The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN).

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Blockade

A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

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Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun

--> The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.

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British Aerospace Sea Harrier

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft.

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British Honduras

British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973,, Caribbean Community.

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Cairnryan

Cairnryan (The Cairn; Càrn Rìoghain or label) is a village in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.

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Captain (Royal Navy)

Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy.

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CATOBAR

CATOBAR ("Catapult Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery" or "Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery") is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Ceremonial ship launching

Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Constitutional monarchy

Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.

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Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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CVA-01

CVA-01 was a proposed United Kingdom aircraft carrier, designed during the 1960s. HMS Ark Royal (R09) and CVA-01 are cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom.

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De Havilland Sea Venom

The de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom is a British postwar carrier-capable jet aircraft developed from the de Havilland Venom.

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De Havilland Sea Vixen

The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a British twin-engine, twin boom-tailed, two-seat, carrier-based fleet air-defence fighter flown by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

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Dennis Cambell

Rear Admiral Dennis Royle Farquharson Cambell, (13 November 1907 – 6 April 2000) was a flag officer of the Royal Navy, who invented the angled flight deck.

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Desmond Cassidi

Admiral Sir Arthur Desmond Cassidi, (26 January 1925 – 10 October 2019) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1983 to 1984.

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Douglas A-1 Skyraider

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly designated AD before the 1962 unification of Navy and Air Force designations) is an American single-seat attack aircraft in service from 1946 to the early 1980s, which served during the Korean War and Vietnam War.

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer.

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E. Chambré Hardman

Edward Fitzmaurice Chambré Hardman (25 November 1898 – 2 April 1988) was an Anglo-Irish photographer, later based for most of his career in Liverpool.

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East of Suez

East of Suez is used in British military and political discussions in reference to interests beyond the European theatre, and east of the Suez Canal, and may or may not include the Middle East.

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Edward Rosebery Anson

Vice Admiral Sir Edward Rosebery Anson, (11 May 1929 – 22 September 2014) was a Royal Navy officer, test pilot and the final captain of HMS Ark Royal.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Fairey Gannet

The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company.

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Fairey Gannet AEW.3

The Fairey Gannet AEW.3 is a variant of the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine warfare aircraft intended to be used in the airborne early warning (AEW) role on aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.

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Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift.

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Fleet Air Arm Museum

The Fleet Air Arm Museum is devoted to the history of British naval aviation.

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Flight deck

The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea.

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Fly on the wall

Fly on the wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television production.

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean.

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Frank Hopkins (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Frank Henry Edward Hopkins, (23 June 1910 – 14 April 1990) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Grumman TBF Avenger

The Grumman TBF Avenger (designated TBM for aircraft manufactured by General Motors) is an American World War II-era torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air and naval aviation services around the world.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Hawker Sea Hawk

The Hawker Sea Hawk is a British single-seat jet day fighter formerly of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the air branch of the Royal Navy (RN), built by Hawker Aircraft and its sister company, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.

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Hawker Siddeley Harrier

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier is a British jet-powered attack aircraft designed and produced by the British aerospace company Hawker Siddeley.

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Hawker Siddeley P.1127

The Hawker P.1127 and the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1 are the British experimental and development aircraft that led to the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) jet fighter-bomber.

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HMNB Devonport

His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy.

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HMS Ark Royal (91)

HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. HMS Ark Royal (R09) and HMS Ark Royal (91) are ships built on the River Mersey.

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HMS Audacious

Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Audacious.

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HMS Hermes (R12)

HMS Hermes was a conventional British aircraft carrier and the last of the. HMS Ark Royal (R09) and HMS Hermes (R12) are cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom.

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HMS Invincible (R05)

HMS Invincible was the Royal Navy's lead ship of her class of three light aircraft carriers. HMS Ark Royal (R09) and HMS Invincible (R05) are cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom.

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HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)

HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the of aircraft carriers and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy.

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John Gerard-Pearse

Rear Admiral John Roger Southey Gerard-Pearse CB (10 May 1924 – 22 May 2017) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer Sea Training.

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John Roberts (Royal Navy officer)

Rear Admiral John Oliver Roberts (born 4 April 1924) is a British former Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer, Naval Air Command.

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Keel laying

Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction.

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Kelsey Media is a magazine publisher and trade fair company based in Yalding, England.

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List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons

This is a List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons, squadrons in Bold Type are currently active in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.

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McDonnell Douglas Phantom in UK service

The United Kingdom (UK) operated the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II as one of its principal combat aircraft from 1968 to 1992.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Michael Pollock (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, (19 October 1916 – 27 September 2006) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1970s.

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Military aircraft

A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary military of any type.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Museum ship

A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Not Only... But Also

Not Only...

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Pennant number

In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of pendant number, which it was called before 1948).

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Peter Hill-Norton

Admiral of the Fleet Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, (8 February 1915 – 16 May 2004) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun

The QF 4.5 inch gun has been the standard medium-calibre naval gun used by the Royal Navy as a medium-range weapon capable of use against surface, aircraft and shore targets since 1938.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.

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Raymond Lygo

Admiral Sir Raymond Derek Lygo, (15 March 1924 – 7 March 2012) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff from 1975 to 1978.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia (Rodizha), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a major river in North West England.

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RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron)

Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, commonly referred to as RNAS Yeovilton, (HMS Heron) is an airbase of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sailing (Sutherland Brothers song)

"Sailing" is a song composed by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known as a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart.

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Sailor (TV series)

Sailor was a major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976, about life on board the fourth HMS ''Ark Royal'', a British aircraft carrier.

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Seacat (missile)

Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes.

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Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval warfare uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.

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Spithead

Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England.

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Stranraer

Stranraer (in Scotland also; An t-Sròn Reamhar), also known as The Toon, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on Loch Ryan and the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland.

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Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.

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Supermarine Scimitar

The Supermarine Scimitar is a single-seat naval strike aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Supermarine.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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United States Naval Institute

The United States Naval Institute (USNI) is a private non-profit military association that offers independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national security issues.

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VTOL

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway.

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Westland Sea King

The Westland WS-61 Sea King is a British licence-built version of the American Sikorsky S-61 helicopter of the same name, built by Westland Helicopters.

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Westland Wessex

The Westland Wessex is a British-built turbine-powered development of the Sikorsky H-34 (in US service known as Choctaw).

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Westland WS-51 Dragonfly

The Westland WS-51 Dragonfly helicopter was built by Westland Aircraft and was an Anglicised licence-built version of the American Sikorsky S-51.

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Westland Wyvern

The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing service in the 1956 Suez Crisis.

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White Ensign

The White Ensign, at one time called the St George's Ensign because of the simultaneous existence of a crossless version of the flag, is an ensign worn on British Royal Navy ships and shore establishments.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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1966 Defence White Paper

The 1966 Defence White Paper (Command Papers 2592 and 2901) was a major review of the United Kingdom's defence policy initiated by the Labour government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

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809 Naval Air Squadron

809 Naval Air Squadron (809 NAS), nicknamed the Immortals, is a squadron of the Fleet Air Arm of the United Kingdom.

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824 Naval Air Squadron

824 Naval Air Squadron is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron based at RNAS Culdrose and currently operating the AgustaWestland Merlin HM2 Operational Conversion Unit.

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849 Naval Air Squadron

849 Naval Air Squadron was a squadron of the Fleet Air Arm, the Air Arm of the British Royal Navy.

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892 Naval Air Squadron

892 Naval Air Squadron (892 NAS) was a carrier-based fighter squadron of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.

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See also

Audacious-class aircraft carriers

Cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom

Maritime incidents in 1970

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R09)

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