HMS Vindictive - Royal Navy Hawkins-class heavy Cruiser

HMS Vindictive - warship originally built as a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser (laid down under the name Cavendish') during the First World War for the British Royal Navy (RN). Converted into an aircraft carrier while still being built. Renamed in 1918, she was completed a few weeks before the end of the war and saw no active service with the Grand Fleet. The following year she participated in the British campaign in the Baltic against the Bolsheviks. Vindictive returned home at the end of the year and was placed in reserve for several years before her flight decks were removed and she was reconverted back into a cruiser. Demilitarized and converted into a training ship in 1936-1937. At the beginning of the Second World War she was converted into a repair ship

Cavendish Converted Demilitarized Hawkins Laid Reconverted Renamed Repair Vindictive

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