Launch of HMS Illustrious 1939
Weekly British warships were being launched, to defend our trade routes. Photograph showing HMS Illustrious an aircraft carriers, going down the slipway at the naval construction works of Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow
Picture No
14150007
Media ID
48876867
Size
412px x 600px
(6.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Front cover photograph in The Sphere', 15 April 1939
Date
5th April 1939
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