HMS Furious (47)

HMS Furious was a Royal Navy warship that began as a lightly armoured battlecruiser of the Courageous class and was finished as one of the first aircraft carriers. Armstrong Whitworth laid her down at its Low Walker shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne on 8 June 1915, launched her on 18 August 1916 and saw her commissioned on 26 June 1917. She was designed with only two 18 inch guns for the First Sea Lord's Baltic Project, and her forward turret was replaced by a flight deck while she was still under construction. After the war she was rebuilt with a full length flight deck in the early 1920s and used extensively for trials of naval aircraft. In the Second World War her aircraft supported the Norwegian Campaign, she ferried aircraft to Malta and Gibraltar and took part in the opening stages of Operation Torch, and she was sold for scrap in 1948.