Boats - Sailing - Ships

Jan. 01, 1958 - Modernisation of H.M.S. Victorious. To be commissioned this month: H.M.S. Victorious, which will be commissioned on January 14th, was taken in hand for modernisation at Portsmouth Dockyard in October 1950. As a result she is now the world's most modern aircraft carrier and the first the Royal Navy to be fitted with all of the British developed to Naval Flying the fully angled flight deck, steam catapults and minor deck landing aids. The work carried out on the ship, built by Vickers - Armstrong on the Tyne and complete in May 1941, had been the largest task of its kind ever undertaken in Royal dockyard of a commercial shipyard in this country. Photo shows View of the main hangar in H.M.S. Victorious, which is divided into two section by a fire curtain of asbestos cloth

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Aids Angled Asbestos Catapults Commissioned Developed Divided Dockyard Fitted Fully H.m.s Hangar Modernisation Portsmouth Result Task Tyne Undertaken Victorious

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