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Revision as of 02:48, 21 April 2019

HMS Formidable.jpg
Imperial War Museum Photo A11660
History
Name HMS Formidable
Builder/Built 1939 Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Type Naval Aircraft Carrier
Displacement 23,000 tons
Speed 30.5 knots


Remarks

HMS Formidable was an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier ordered for the Royal Navy before the Second World War. She operated at various times with the Home, Mediterranean, Eastern, and British Pacific Fleets. On 4 May 1945 she was hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa killing 8 men, and wounding another 55. Another kamikaze struck the ship on 9 May 1945, killing one and injuring four.


Formidable arrived in Sydney on 24 August, and had her hangar refitted to accommodate Allied ex-prisoners of war and soldiers for repatriation. Having left her air group behind to maximise the numbers of passengers she could carry, the ship arrived at Manila on 30 September, where she loaded over 1,000 Australian former prisoners of war on 4 October and unloaded them at Circular Quay in Sydney on 21 October. She then ferried British personnel across the globe through 1946. She was placed in reserve the following year and sold for scrap in 1953.


Soldiers carried

Manila to Sydney 4 -21 October 1945