The sinking of HMS Ark Royal in November 1941 remains one of the most significant tragedies in naval history. Commissioned in ...

HMS Ark Royal. The Sinking of the Ark Royal. The wreck of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, discovered by divers in December 2002 and recently explored in a BBC documentary programme, ...

Huge crowds watch as the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) is launched at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, on April 13, 1937. The ship was later sunk off Gibraltar by the ...

For two years, HMS Ark Royal defied German attempts to sink it. In November 1941, its luck finally ran out. ... Ark Royal shortly before sinking in the Mediterranean on November 14, 1941.

Eighty years after the sinking of HMS Ark Royal - with a Daily Express reporter on board - the five fearsome flagships that proudly bore the most famous name in the Royal Navy ...

Bidding has closed in the sale of the Royal Navy's former flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. Proposals include selling the ship for scrap metal, transforming it into a casino and sinking it ...

The Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is to be scrapped along with its fleet of Harrier jets as the coalition prepares to announce cuts in the Strategic Defence and Security Review.

Ark Royal's sister ship, HMS Illustrious, is due to be decommissioned next year, and a new class of British carrier, designed to launch and recover the F-35 joint strike aircraft, won't come into ...

The news was that HMS Ark Royal had taken a direct hit and was sinking. The third Ark Royal had been adopted by Leeds on 4.11.1941 and 10 days after it was sunk.