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Aircraft Carrier Pictures

Maybell. The Unicorn was a beautifull Light Fleet Carrier. She took part in the invasion of Okinawa in 1945 then went on to serve in the Korean War.
 
The Unicorn was scrapped in 1960, Dad was demobbed in Australia and most of the the crew came home on an American Ship the Georgetown Victory which when it was of the coast of Ireland 30/05/1946 rammed into Killard Point at full speed and totally wrecked said ship, Captain Court marshalled.
 
maybell said:
The Unicorn was scrapped in 1960, Dad was demobbed in Australia and most of the the crew came home on an American Ship the Georgetown Victory which when it was of the coast of Ireland 30/05/1946 rammed into Killard Point at full speed and totally wrecked said ship, Captain Court marshalled.
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That's the Americans for you!!!!!
 
They were twin boomed you are right but im fairly sure we were told venoms.
Also we lost one pilot killed when he picked up the last arrester wire - tipped up & slid under the barrier which crushed him in his cockpit, the stoker who was on the barrier control was taken off that duty!!
 
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Hi Blackham. If it was a twin boom aircraft, for the time frame you state it could only have been a Venom. So that is a valuable piece of info for me because I have not been able to find any reference to Vanom trials aboard "Illustrious".
 
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