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and was 'Ark Raleigh', as a fairly common convention of the time was for the ship to bear the name of her owner in addition to whatever name the owner chose. When the ship was bought out by the crown and so became a national warship, the 'Raleigh' bit was changed to 'Royal' to reflect the change of
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I see what you're saying, but I'm more concerned with what it is trying to do than the semantics. I'm opposed to "first" or "largest" claims littering Knowledge (XXG) like this. I've edited the contradictory section (as you say) and removed the tag.
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She used the pre-existing hull of a cargo ship under construction, the superstructure & internal configuration would have been purpose-built. It's not really a conversion because the would-be tramp steamer was never constructed.
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ownership. As to why it was resurrected for this seaplane carrier, very much an auxiliary and support ship for the navy at the time, I don't recall that ever being addressed in any of the sources I've seen so far.
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I want to know if any of these Tanks, Planes or ships still survive today? Are there any WW1 planes or tanks witch still work today and are in mint condition and have all the origonal conponents and paintwork?
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I'm surprised there isn't more discussion about the lessons the Royal Navy took from this ship and applied to its subsequent carrier fleet. What relevance did this ship have on the subsequent classes?
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Then she was purpose converted, not purpose built. Her build started off as one vessel and was finished as somethine similar with refinements for operating floatplanes. The first purpose
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From what I can tell, very little because they were all conversions of existing ships and the Admiralty would have to pay to have them reconverted back so they weren't heavily modified.
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was requisitioned whilst under construction. This 7,000-ton vessel was turned into the first purpose-built aircraft carrying vessel,
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page you'll see someone has been adding details of French construction efforts prior to this, so the claim is irrelevant anyway.
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is not purpose built, she is still a conversion of an existing hull (just like
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does not seem to connect, can it be retrieved or a replacement substituted?:
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I mean it's a wacky name. What does it mean? Is it some kind of reference to
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What do you mean more specifically? The name hadn't been used since 1636.--
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Interesting stuff. That Ark Raleigh information should be added here. --
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before she made another effort? I'm just going by what my source said.--
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Oops. Just noticed who started this article. *Wiki-Ed smacks own wrists
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Not true to say that Pegasus rescued 400 survivors from
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Quite possibly. The first ship was originally owned by
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What happened to all these planes and aircraf carries?
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was the World's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.
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