HMS Ark Royal was an aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy that served during the Second World War.
Designed in 1934, Ark Royal was built in Birkenhead, England, launched in April of 1937 and completed in November of 1938. Her design differed from previous aircraft carriers in that she was the first ship on which the hangars and flight deck were an integral part of the hull, rather than an add-on or part of the superstructure and she was designed to carry a large number of aircraft in two hangar deck levels.

She served during a period that first saw the extensive use of naval air power and as a result, several carrier tactics were developed and refined aboard Ark Royal.

She was torpedoed off the coast of Gibraltar in November 1941

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