RN Aircraft Carriers: Colossus Class 1942

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Obituary: Commander Allan Tarver, Fleet Air Arm pilot awarded George Medal for trying to save his observer when Sea Vixen forced to ditch. (Flying from HMS Ark Royal in the Indian Ocean, enforcing the Beira Patrol 1966)

See - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/ ... very-navy/

From the Ark Royal Facebook page:

In today’s Telegraph there is an obituary for an Alan Tarver GM. I remember very well when he was awarded the George Medal. He was piloting a Sea Vixen when one engine flamed out. They sent up a Scimitar to refuel him, but the second engine also flamed out. Then the observer’s ejector seat failed. So the pilot inverted the jet twice to try and shake the observer out to no avail. By this time the jet was quite low to the oggin, so much so that the pilots canopy failed to fully open and he injured his knee. Picked up by the SAR chopper. RIP Sir.

[Brian James]

Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Perseus pictured on arrival at Port Melbourne in 1946..She was initially named HMS Edgar, but she was renamed in 1944 when the Admiralty decided to convert her into an Aircraft Maintenance Carrier. She was completed in 1945, after the end of World War II, and she made a trip to Australia late in the year. Upon her return to the UK in 1946, Perseus was placed in reserve. The ship was recommissioned in 1950 to serve as the Trials Ship for the steam catapult then under development. Over 1,600 test launches were conducted before the catapult was removed in 1952 and she was converted for use as a Ferry Carrier to transport aircraft, troops and equipment overseas. She was reduced to reserve again in 1954 and sold for scrap in 1958.

[Brian James]

Pictured at HMNB Devonport, May 28th 1948.....The handing over ceremony of Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Venerable to the Royal Netherlands Navy as HNLMS Karel Doorman. Astern is the Battleship HMS Vanguard and in Basin No 5 to the right is Majestic Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Terrible, soon to be sold to the RAN and re-named HMAS Sydney.

[Brian James]

Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Ocean pictured at Malta in 1951.

[Brian James]

The Dry Docking of Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Ocean pictured at HM Dockyard Malta on October 29th 1951.

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HMS Triumph in dry dock, possibly Singapore or Sasebo, Japan, 1950

[Brian James]

Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Glory pictured at Port Melbourne in 1946.

[Brian James]

Vought F-4U Corsair flight ops, Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Glory, 1945.

[Brian James]

Colossus Class Light Fleet Carrier HMS Theseus pictured in her role as Flagship of the 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the BPF at Port Phillip Bay on July 11th 1947.