HMS Ark Royal
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"Zeal does not rest"
Ships motto, HMS Ark Royal
I finally was able to add the venerable HMS Ark Royal to my Royal Navy fleet, in game it brings an increased aircraft complement of 15 flights of aircraft over the 5 of the HMS Eagle from the Royal Navy fleet box, allowing you to strike with dive bombers and torpedoes much further away from your fleet
HMS Ark Royal began operations in WW2 with engagements off Norway which included the first carrier launched aerial and U-boat kills of WW2.
She went onto operations in the Atlantic ocean including the hunt for the Kriegsmarine battleship Bismark, where a Swordfish piloted by Lt Cdr John 'Jock' Moffat launched from her decks crippled the German warship's rudder allowing units of the Home Fleet commanded by Admiral Tovey aboard HMS King George V to destroy the German warship. The carrier then went on to serve in the Mediterranean. With Rommel's Afrika Corps suffering heavy losses in supplies from aircraft and submarines based on Malta Hitler ordered U-boats into the area and on 13th Nov U-81 commanded by Friedrich Guggenberger hit the carrier with a torpedo causing the ship to capsize and sink 30 miles from Gibraltar
HMS Legion taking off survivors as HMS Ark Royal lists heavily
Excellent work!!
ReplyDeleteThanks chap, just hope she don't suffer the same fate as the original Lol
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