HMS Indomitable
by Ray Agius
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22.000 x 15.000 inches
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Title
HMS Indomitable
Artist
Ray Agius
Medium
Painting - Watercolour On Cold-pressed 300 Gsm Watercolour Paper
Description
HMS INDOMITABLE
Watercolour
22" X 15"
HMS Indomitable
Aircraft Carrier
Built 1940
Builder Vickers Armstrongs
Gross 23,000 Tons
Length 754 feet 7 inches (230 m)
Beam 95 feet 10 inches (29.2 m)
Draught 29 feet (8.8 m)
Propulsion Parsons geared steam turbines, driving three propellers
12th August 1942
South of Sardinia
HMS Indomitable took part in Operation "Pedestal”.
Part of the mission was for HMS Furious to launch her Spitfires to land at Malta where they would remain; this was done on 11 August with the Furious returning to Gibraltar.
During the operation Indomitable was attacked constantly and on the 12th she was hit by two 500 kg bombs and suffered three near misses.
A 500 kg bomb penetrated the un-armoured portion of the flight deck, causing damage that required her to return withdraw for repairs, although she was able to steam at 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h; 32.8 mph) fewer than two hours after the hits. She sailed to the United States, where repairs were completed in February 1943,
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