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HMAS Melbourne was originally one of six Majestic Class light fleet aircraft carriers ordered for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II.. Laid down for the RN as HMS Majestic on 15 April 1943 and launched in 1945, the ship was nearing completion when construction was virtually brought to a halt with the cessation of wartime hostilities.
- Modified Majestic Class
- Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier
- R21
HMAS Melbourne was originally one of six Majestic Class light fleet aircraft carriers ordered for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II. Laid down for the RN as HMS Majestic on 15 April 1943 and launched in 1945, the ship was nearing completion when construction was virtually brought to a halt with the cessation of wartime hostilities.
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- Early History
- 1963 – 1965
- 1968
- 1981
- HMS Ark Royal
I recently had a brief article about HMAS Melbourne, the aircraft carrier, published and consequent on that I was asked to give this talk. It will be a brief history, some description of the ship with a few anecdotes thrown in. I see that I have also been asked to provide some comments on HMS Ark Royal.
HMAS Melbourne was laid down during the Second WW at Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in 1944, named Majestic, and was designed for service in the Arctic convoys as a light fleet carrier. Just under 700 ft long, beam 80 ft, 18,000 tons displacement. Design speed 25 knots. The war ended before her completion. I have here her ...
My first contact with HMAS Melbournewas in 1963 as a Direct Entry Engineering Officer when I was posted to her for 6 months to get my engineering watchkeeping certificates – boiler room and engine room w/k certs and so on. Although she was fairly newly commissioned her machinery was of war-time and pre- war vintage. All manually operated and enormo...
My next contact with the ship was when I joined Garden Island Dockyard towards the end of 1968. I was promptly put in charge of the dockyard’s set-to-work team at the completion of Melbourne‘s modernisation carried out that year. A bit of a disappointment since I thought I would escape steam for a couple of years. The modernisation was built around...
I was appointed MEO in April 1981 and renewed my acquaintance with her. Time had not mellowed her. I was now God! One thing I learned as MEO – it was 103 vertical steps from the Control Platform in the FMS to the Bridge, which I traversed many times to report Main Engines to the CO. In the time it took to make that journey I always wondered if the ...
At the end of 1982 I was posted to the UK to take up an exchange posting with the RN. I was sent to Newcastle on Tyne where I was on the staff of PNO Tyne – overseeing the construction of Ark Royal, a T42 destroyer and a couple of T22 frigates at Swan Hunters, as well as other interesting work. With the arrival of an Australian Brass Hat the rumour...
Dec 28, 2016 · The collision of HMAS Melbourne and HMAS Voyager remains the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) worst peacetime disaster. Occurring off the New South Wales coast in 1964, the aircraft carrier Melbourne and destroyer Voyager were engaged in night flying exercises when Voyager inexplicably turned in front of Melbourne’s bow. The destroyer was cut ...
Jun 19, 2017 · HMAS Melbourne was originally laid down as a British Royal Navy light carrier on April 15th, 1943 during World War 2 and launched in February of 1945 as HMS Majestic (R77). As she was no longer needed in the large military drawdown that followed the war (the war ended in September of 1945) she was sold to the Australian government (carrying the ...
Jun 22, 2016 · Melbourne was always on the periphery but did not have an active role in the First World War inasmuch it was not involved in any naval engagements or battles. Little is written about her, although there is a ship’s history in the excellent book aptly titled The Forgotten Cruiser – HMAS Melbourne 1913-1928 by Andrew Kilsby and Greg Swinden ...
Melbourne. (1912) HMAS Melbourne was a Town class light cruiser operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The ship was laid down by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead in England in 1911, launched in 1912 and commissioned in 1913. At the start of World War I, Melbourne was involved in attempts to locate the German East Asia Squadron, and ...
