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HMS Vanguard, Britain’s last battleship, overtakes an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier in the late 1940s.

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HMS Victorious (R38), the only Second World War Illustrious-class aircraft carrier thoroughly overhauled for post war service. The old boilers weren’t the cleanest things.

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And the Navy goes on - British World War 2 propaganda poster from the early 1940s.

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HMS Indomitable (92), an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Taken either 1944 with the Eastern Fleet or early 1945 with the British Pacific Fleet.

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HMS Victorious (R38) circa 1959, after her major eight year refit. Her hull was widened, deepened, and lengthened. Her machinery was replaced with Foster-Wheeler boilers, her hangar height was increased and a fully angled flight deck (of 8 degrees) with powerful new steam catapults was installed. Her radar equipment was also extensively altered to bringing it up to date, including the first type 984 3-D radar system to be installed on a ship. She was essentially made anew.

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HMS Indomitable leaving Hong Kong Harbour, with another carrier to her stern, sometime 1945.

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One of the British Pacific Fleet’s six fleet carriers, HMS Indomitable at Hong Kong, with Kowloon in the background, sometime 1945.