In November 1941, a German U-boat sank HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. Ark Royal had been a thorn in the side of the German navy during the early years of World War II.

Ark Royal's sister ship, HMS Illustrious, is due to be decommissioned next year, and a new class of British carrier, designed to launch and recover the F-35 joint strike aircraft, won't come into ...

Harrier jump jets take off for the last time from the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, bringing an end to a proud history of naval and aviation endeavour. Flight Commander James Blackmore was ...

Sir Stanley Goodall, Director of Naval Construction for the Admiralty, then read an interesting paper describing H.M.S. Ark Royal, the first ship to be designed exclusively as an aircraft carrier.

Bidding has closed in the sale of the Royal Navy's former flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. Proposals include selling the ship for scrap metal, transforming it into a casino and sinking it ...

The boys on the aircraft carrier Ark Royal (who, depending on their mood, called her the Ark or My Royal Arse) had begun to think of her as charmed; the Axis claimed her sinking again & again, ...

In 1955, the HMS Ark Royal was the first carrier to be built and launched with the new design. America wasn't too far behind, though, as it got its first carrier with the new deck later in the ...