20th+: Aircraft carriers and battleships

STOBAR ("Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery" or "Short Take-Off, Barrier Arrested Recovery") is a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier, combining elements of "short take-off and vertical landing" (STOVL) with "catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery" (CATOBAR).

Battleship Duke of York to scrap yard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GtVEkiZH_E

HMS Indomitable (Illustrious class, 1941-55)
BEF: Flight ops aboard HMS Indomitable, 1944 > .

Armoured carriers: HMS Indomitable hangar footage > .

Indomitable in Somerville's Fleet - early April '40 > .

HMS Illustrious - Guide 048 (Human Voice) - Drach > .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Indomitable_(92)

12 August 42: Operation Pedestal, rescue of Malta

HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when WW1 began and became the first example of the standard pattern of aircraft carrier, with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land. After commissioning, the ship was involved for several years in the development of the optimum design for other aircraft carriers. Argus also evaluated various types of arresting gear, general procedures needed to operate a number of aircraft in concert and fleet tactics. The ship was too top-heavy as originally built and had to be modified to improve her stability in the mid-1920s. She spent one brief deployment on the China Station in the late 1920s before being placed in reserve for budgetary reasons.

Argus was recommissioned and partially modernised shortly before WW2 and served as a training ship for deck-landing practice until June 1940. The following month she made the first of her many ferry trips to the Western Mediterranean to fly off fighters to Malta; she was largely occupied in this task for the next two years. The ship also delivered aircraft to Murmansk in Russia, Takoradi on the Gold Coast, and Reykjavík in Iceland. By 1942, the Royal Navy was very short of aircraft carriers and Argus was pressed into front-line service despite her lack of speed and armament. In June '42, she participated in Operation Harpoon, providing air cover for the Malta-bound convoy. In November '42, the ship provided air cover during Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa and was slightly damaged by a bomb. After returning to the UK for repairs, Argus was used again for deck-landing practice until late September 1944. In December, she became an accommodation ship and was listed for disposal in mid-1946. Argus was sold in late 1946 and scrapped in 1947.

Battle For Malta - The Malta Convoys 1940 - 1942 - NoHi > .

42-May - Spitfires delivered & destroyed - Malta - WW2 > .
Operation Pedestal: HMS Indomitable bombed > .

Operation Pedestal: Carrier and flying operations > .
Stuka pilot interview 47: Attack on HMS Indomitable August 1942 > .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pedestal . http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Memoir-Indomitable-Whiteing1.htm

British Navy In Sydney (1945) > .

BPF: British fleet arrives in Sydney [Australia], 1945 > .

Grumman F6F Hellcat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F6F_Hellcat
Fairey Barracuda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4mENl9aiA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Barracuda

1950 - 4th Ark Royal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8K8hPT9qbQ

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:
Ark Royal (1587), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588
HMS Ark Royal (1914), merchant ship, converted to an aircraft carrier during the First World War
HMS Ark Royal (91), British aircraft carrier launched in 1937 that participated in the Second World War and was sunk by a U-boat in 1941
HMS Ark Royal (R09), an Audacious-class aircraft carrier launched in 1950, decommissioned in 1979
HMS Ark Royal (R07), an Invincible-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1981, decommissioned in 2011