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 ...ors in that ship when they listened in to his
broadcast. But when papers published photographs of the
ship at Capetown even the Germans had to admit her
survival.
Since the fight in the North Sea the Ark Royal has
travelled far and wide. She has joined in the contraband
control operations in the South Atlantic, and her wander-
ings covered many thousands of miles. She was not lucky
enough to disco...
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 ...HERE IS
Blackburn Skua fighter dive-bombers are carried on board
Pre-resurrection. A photograph taken prior to the war ofFairey Swordfish flying over H.M.S. Ark Royal.
NEEDS must when the devil drives. In an emergencya country at war must use the weapons which fitinto an emergency, even if another choice would
have been preferable. Theoretically it is not...
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 ...those on board the Home Fleet saw nothing
of the shore-based squadrons. The Home Fleet provided the
most imposing and spectacular part of the farewell ceremonies,
and the aircraft from the carrier Ark Royal gave the final
parting salute. I was privileged to be on board the Ark Royal
throughout that memorable day, and from her bridge (a still
further privilege, for which I am most grateful) I...
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 ...s round
Benghazi and other enemy bases have
been regularly raided and there have
been very successful daylight attacks
by Marylands of the South African
Air Force on Libyan airfields.
Loss of H.M.S. "Ark Royal"
''THE Fleet Air Arm has suffered aA
grievous loss through the sinking
of the carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal.
Only one rating of her company was
killed, and that seems almost a
miraculously light...
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 ... of the shells
bursting all round them, and they were lucky that most
of them escaped complete destruction. No wonder that
their bombing was inaccurate !
One machine, a Heinkel in the officers of the Ark Royal
judged it to be, came down to 1,200 feet over the carrier
and from there released a 500 kilo (1,000 1b.) bomb. The
officers on the bridge saw it coming down and said that
it looked as big as...
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 ...build them. Although we have lost the Courageous
and Glorious—both of which losses are about the only
bad naval errors of this war—we have had a very good
eturn for the enormous cost of our carriers. Ark Royal
ost three and a half million pounds to build, and the
running costs are so high that each flying hour per
machine works out somewhere in the region of £IOQ.
The all-in cost of flying land-op...
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 ...AY I8, 1939
The R.A.F. To-day.
FLEET AIR ARM
A fine impression of our newest air
craft carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal. She
has a complement of i ,550 officers and
men. The machines shown are Sword-
fish.
THERE is hardly sufficient space here to describe in very great detail the many ramifications of the ...
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 ...IGNOR MUSSOLINI must be very glad that the
ships of the Italian Navy were built for speed.
Once again their powers of evasion have averted
a major catastrophe. But the Swordfish and Skuas
from H.M.S. Ark Royal are faster than the Italian ships.
In the action off Sardinia the second battleship of the
Littorio class was hit by a torpedo, and as her sister
was one of the victims of the Taranto battle...
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 ...inking a high proportion of the ships. Our
bombers also regularly raided the ports of embarkation,
especially Naples and Brindisi, and the ports of arrival,
Tripoli, Benghazi, and others.
H.M.S. "Ark Royal"
Throughout the summer a number of sweeps was made
by both sections of the Mediterranean Fleet, and the Ark
Royal, which was based on Gibraltar, had many adven
tures and many escapes. Th...
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 ...ow Carriers Helped the Navy in Its Three Major Duties : Great Work
Skuas and Hurricanes
craft operating from the Ark Royal and Hermes in the
South Atlantic, the Glorious and Eagle in the Indian
Ocean, and the Albatross off West Africa. At this time
the backbone of the maintenance crews was still R.A.F.
men, ...
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 ...'LKrhT, January ylh, I94f
H.M.S. ARK ROYAL : 70 aircraft. 22,000 tons. Length, 800ft. Width, 94ft. Draft, 23ft. 102,000 H.P. Completed
1938. Speed, 31 knots. Two catapults. Armament : sixteen 4.5m. dual-purpose guns in twin turrets, ...
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 ...EBRUARY 20TH, 1941. 147
War in The Air
A Blinded Army :
H.M.S. "Ark Royal"
at Genoa : South
African A.F. Record
IN the last issue of Flightcomment was made onthe handicap which the
Italian Generals in Libya
must be suffering through
the complete collapse of the
Re...
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 ...88 FLIGHT AUGUST 14TH, 1941.
WAR IN THE AIR
STIRLING EXCHANGE : King Peterof Jugo-Slavia accompanied by Air
Vice-Marshal J. E. A. Baldwin andAir Vice-Marshal R. Graham inspect
the bomb load of a Stirl...
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 ...ECEMBER IITH, 1941 FLIGHT 415
:- -••'-'"S-=--:'- NEARING THE END : A destroyer going alongside H.M.S. Ark Royal to take off survivors.
November Records : Malta as a Base of Aggression : German Futility in the West
NOVEMBER was not a goodmonth for night flying, andthe activities of Bomber Com-
mand wer...
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 ... Ad-
miral Graf Spee had escaped into the Atlantic,
carriers went out with the British and French
battle cruisers and cruisers which searched for
them. The Germans had before this claimed
that H.M.S. Ark Royal had been sunk by an
air bomb. As a matter of fact, while she was
accompanying the Fleet which was escorting a
damaged British submarine back from the
shores of Denmark, the Fleet was attacke...
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 ...Jf0$^
March 16, 1939
NOCTURNE
The camera records,
with the aid of flash
light, details of a
North American
"basic trainer" of
the U.S. Army Air
Corps. This photo
graph, taken at 10
o'clock ...
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 ...intercepted on passage.For nearly the whole of one day
numerous Italian bombers and JunkersJu 87 dive-bombers protected by
Me 110s, attacked the ships of theconvoy and the Fleet. The aircraft
carrier Ark Royal came in for specialattention and the final attack of the
day was by two torpedo-planes in anendeavour to disable her.
It was a failure ; the Ark Royal tookavoiding action and the torpedoe...
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 ... publication of the work of naval aircraft would give
the enemy a clue to the whereabouts'of a carrier, and that
sort of hint must be withheld. Some idea is given in the
official history of H.M.S. Ark Royal of the many sweeps
undertaken by Admiral Somerville in the Western Medi
terranean which were never reported. The Admiral said
that if he went out without the Ark Royal he felt like
a bli...
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 ... humour, plenty of excitement, and,
inevitably, grim tragedy.
This is more than a novel; it is a sincere tribute from the
author to his comrades, especially those who " didn't get away
with it."
Ark Royal. The Admiralty Account of Her Achievement.
H.M. Stationery Office, gd. net.
"M'OT long ago there was reviewed in these columns a book
-1~ with the title Ark Royal written by Sir Herbert R...
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 ...ng on the sea. It has skidded along the water
from the right and finally turned completely round beforedigging its nose in. 6. A Fairey Fulmar coming in to alight
over the aft "round-down " of H.M.S. Ark Royal. 7. In theforeground is a ship's multiple pom-pom at the ready. In the
middle distance the attendant destroyer of the aircraft carrierH.M.S. Aik Royal, which is seen in the distance. 8. H.M....
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