HMS Ark Royal

HMS Ark Royal ( English 'Royal Ark') is the name of five ships of the British Royal Navy :

• the galleon involved in the battle against the Spanish Armada, see Ark Royal (1587)
• an aircraft mother ship that was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934, see HMS Ark Royal (1914)
• the aircraft carrier sunk by a German submarine near Gibraltar in 1941, see HMS Ark Royal (91)
• an Eagle-class aircraft carrier, see HMS Ark Royal (R09)
• an Invincible-class aircraft carrier, see HMS Ark Royal (R07)

literature

• JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy, The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present . Chatham Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X , pp. 20-21 .