British aircraft carrier Eagle. The first aircraft carrier of the classical scheme

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The Eagle aircraft carrier (HMS Eagle) is the first ship of this class, created according to the scheme recognized as classic: with a solid flight deck and an “island” superstructure shifted to the starboard side. Many of the technical solutions applied on it were repeated many times on subsequent aircraft carriers, not only British ones. Laid down on the eve of the First World War by order of the government of Chile as the battleship Almirante Cochrane, the future aircraft carrier was already bought by the Admiralty and rebuilt on the slipway (Eagle became the only ship of the British Navy with metric units of measurement and tools marked in Spanish). At the time of commissioning in 1924, she was the largest aircraft carrier in the world. From the very first days of World War II, the Eagle fought in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the South Atlantic. On August 11, 1942, during Operation Pedestal, one of the most famous operations of the Royal Navy, an aircraft carrier escorting a convoy to Malta was sunk by a German submarine, and the convoy left without air cover was defeated by the Luftwaffe. This book, for the first time, tells in detail about the vicissitudes of designing and building the first aircraft carrier of the classical scheme, its design features, long service life and active combat use. A separate section is devoted to aircraft carrier-based aircraft. The edition is illustrated with exclusive drawings and photographs.

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Barcode: 9785041196837 SKU: 70146556 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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