Ark Royal class
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:13 pm
In 1932 the admiralty proposes the return of the RNAS to the Navy. To do so they plan to build six large fleet carriers of 22 000 tonnes to replace the ageing battleships of the battle fleet. The designs of the new fleet carriers are finalized and the plans for the FAA aircraft to fly off them are put to tender.
24/05/1941
HMS Ark Royal, HMS Ocean fleet carriers are with HMS hood and HMS Prince of Wales in the Denmark straight waiting for KMS Bismarck and KMS Prinz Eugan. With the two heavy cruisers HMS Norfolk and Suffolk tailing the battleship and heavy cruiser the aircraft carriers are able to launch there 120 aircraft 30 miles away. First off the deck are the 40 swordfish bi-planes armed with a single torpedo ,40 hurricane dive bombers armed with two 500lb bombs and finally 40 spitfire fighters leaving ten as a cap. The swordfish drop to 100 feet and in less than an hour make contact with Bismarck the first five swordfish attack Bismarck who is firing every gun she has at the incoming bi-planes. The other swordfish launch there single torpedoes at Prinz Eugan and Bismarck. Bismarck is hit by five torpedos which punches three holes in her hull and stops her dead in the water, the Hurricanes drop from 1000 feet in a steep dive at 100 feet they drop there 500lb bombs and leave for the carriers. When the smoke clears Bismarck is a floating wreck and Prinz Eugan listing to port at a eight degree angle. The remaining Swordfish with torpedoes remaining attack from all angles after ten minutes Bismarck is sinking fast her bow is blown off and she is split into, her stern is slowly sinking. Her 15inch guns fire one last salvo before she sinks into the cold abyss of the North Atlantic.
The FAA has come of age , what would happen next to the FAA.
24/05/1941
HMS Ark Royal, HMS Ocean fleet carriers are with HMS hood and HMS Prince of Wales in the Denmark straight waiting for KMS Bismarck and KMS Prinz Eugan. With the two heavy cruisers HMS Norfolk and Suffolk tailing the battleship and heavy cruiser the aircraft carriers are able to launch there 120 aircraft 30 miles away. First off the deck are the 40 swordfish bi-planes armed with a single torpedo ,40 hurricane dive bombers armed with two 500lb bombs and finally 40 spitfire fighters leaving ten as a cap. The swordfish drop to 100 feet and in less than an hour make contact with Bismarck the first five swordfish attack Bismarck who is firing every gun she has at the incoming bi-planes. The other swordfish launch there single torpedoes at Prinz Eugan and Bismarck. Bismarck is hit by five torpedos which punches three holes in her hull and stops her dead in the water, the Hurricanes drop from 1000 feet in a steep dive at 100 feet they drop there 500lb bombs and leave for the carriers. When the smoke clears Bismarck is a floating wreck and Prinz Eugan listing to port at a eight degree angle. The remaining Swordfish with torpedoes remaining attack from all angles after ten minutes Bismarck is sinking fast her bow is blown off and she is split into, her stern is slowly sinking. Her 15inch guns fire one last salvo before she sinks into the cold abyss of the North Atlantic.
The FAA has come of age , what would happen next to the FAA.