HMS Vindex
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HMS Vindex was a Royal Navy seaplane carrier during the First World War, converted from the fast passenger ship SS Viking. The ship spent the bulk of her career operating the North Sea, where she twice unsuccessfully attacked the German Zeppelin base at Tondern and conducted anti-Zeppelin patrols. One of her Bristol Scout aircraft made the first take-off from an aircraft carrier in late 1915. Another made the first interception of an airship by a carrier-based aircraft on 2 August 1916, when it unsuccessfully attacked the Zeppelin LZ 53. Vindex was transferred to the Mediterranean in 1918 and was sold back to her original owners in 1920. She was requisitioned again in 1939 and served through the Second World War as a troopship under a different name. After the end of the war, the ship was returned to her owners and was sold for scrapping in 1954.
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HMS Vindex ships cat WWI IWM Q 73724
Bristol Scout
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Flt Lt Towler makes the first take-off from a carrier ship the HMS Vindex 1915
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| link | page | Dreadnought Project Vindex (1905) pageVindex (1905) @ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| commons | image | The Royal Navy during the Second World War A22736 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | HMS Vindex ships cat WWI IWM Q 73724 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Bristol Scout | Commons | ||
| commons | image | HMSVindex1915 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Flt Lt Towler makes the first take-off from a carrier ship the HMS Vindex 1915 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | HMS Phaeton (1914) | Commons | ||
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