HMS Pegasus - ex HMS Ark Royal

HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal) at A Spithead re in 1938. HMS Pegasus was re-named from the 1914 HMS Ark Royal seaplane carrier, which saw action in WWI and in the 1920s She was re-named in 1934, to allow a new aircraft carrier to be commissioned as HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91), on 16 December 1938. The hull was purchased by the Royal Navy while still in early stages of construction and the ship was designed and constructed as the first purpose-built aircraft / seaplane carrier. Ark Royal participated in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and remained in the Dardanelles region until 1918, when she carried out patrols in the Aegean Sea. After the armistice she supported White Russian forces during the Russian revolution, supported British forces in British Somaliland and transported a squadron of seaplanes to the Dardanelles for the Chanak crisis in 1922. Placed in reserve, she was re-commissioned in 1930 as a training ship and for research into ship-board aircraft catapults

Aegean Allow Armistice Catapults Chanak Commissioned Constructed Dardanelles Gallipoli Hull Participated Patrols Pegasus Pennant Placed Purchased Purpose-built Re-commissioned Re-named Remained Seaplane Seaplanes Somaliland Spithead Stages Supported Transported

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