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1/700 HMS Victorious (1941) Masts 3d printed

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1/700 HMS Victorious (1941) Masts

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HMS Victorious was the third of four Illustrious class aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy, with the last ship, Implacable, completed to a slightly modified design.
Victorious was laid down in mid-1937, launched in September 1939 just as the Second World War kickstarted, and first deployed in early May 1941. Her first action was the hunt for the Bismarck, during which her Swordfish scored a hit on the ship, but no critical damage. All the aircraft returned safely save for the two Fulmar fighters which had to ditch. The rest of the year was a back and forth between convoy escort and patrolling operations to prevent the Germans from breaking into the Atlantic.
In August 1942 the ship was the centre - alongside Indomitable, Furious and Argus - of Operation Pedestal, a massive convoy to resupply besieged Malta. Victorious herself was only slightly damaged but Eagle was sunk by a U-Boot, plus two cruisers and a destroyer were lost, but in its aim the operation was successful.
After a brief refit in September, Victorious provided air cover during Torch, until late December 1942, when she was loaned to the US Navy as USS Robin. The Americans at that point were left with only Enterprise in repair and Saratoga operational in the Pacific, using the latter for air strikes with USS Robin (Victorious) providing fighter escort for the task force. Back in home waters a year later, the ship was put into drydock for refit.
From March 1944 the carrier conducted air attacks on the battleship Tirpitz in Norway, until June, when she left for the China Station (aka the Eastern or East Indies Fleet). There she provided air cover and attacked Japanese installations until the end of the war, being transferred in 1945 to the British Pacific Fleet but still operating in the same area.
At war's end, Victorious made three voyages ferrying soldiers home and put in reserve, until heavily refitted in 1949 following the cancellation of more modern and larger carriers for the post-war period. It took eight years to reconstruct the ship, and even then she showed her limits in handling larger, jet powered strike aircraft of the 1950s and 60s. Her turbines were replaced and her armoured deck refitted twice. An angled flight deck was installed and modern 3'' AA guns fitted, but the ship could only operate 28 aircraft by 1958, when it was back in service.
She notably featured in the movie Sink the Bismarck! (1960), both as herself and HMS Ark Royal, but by 1967 she was showing her small capacity and getting a bit long in the tooth. In 1969 the ship was sold for scrap.
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