HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre -class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924.

2020年4月3日 · HMS Eagle was the former deadnought Almirante Cochrane ordered by Chile, requisitioned to be completed as a Carrier in 1918. She fought in WW2, lost 1942.

Aircraft Carrier HMS Eagle was sunk 70 miles south of Cape Salinas, Majorca, by four torpedoes from the German U-73 (Kptlt. Helmut Rosenbaum). Of her crew of 1,087 a total of 160 perished, two officers and 158 ratings.

22nd Deployed with HMS RAMILLIES and HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN with destroyer screen to carry out offensive sweep between Libyan coast and south Italy.

British battleship HMS Nelson and aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, en route from Cape Town, South Africa to Freetown, Sierra Leone, British West Africa in search of German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis, sailed within 7 kilometers of the German ship without detecting her.

Four ships were laid down between 1942 and 1943 during World War II as part of the British naval buildup – Africa, Irresistible, Audacious and Eagle. At the end of hostilities Africa and Eagle were cancelled.

2024年4月10日 · HMS Eagle (launched 1946 as R06) was the first of WW2 improved Implacable class fleet carriers, completed in 1952, in service until 1972.

11th August 1942 13.15hrs HMS Eagle I was standing in the shade of No.1 starboard 6" gun, fifty feet above the waterline. The Eagle shuddered with four distinct lurches.

2022年3月21日 · Renamed Eagle, she was commissioned into service in 1924 as the world’s largest aircraft carrier and as the only ship in the British fleet with instruments labeled in Spanish and in metric units due to its previous life as the beginnings of battleship Almirante Cochrane.

HMS Eagle was the former deadnought Almirante Cochrane ordered by Chile, requisitioned to be completed as a Carrier in 1918. She fought in WW2, lost 1942.