Year: 1999 Language: english Author: Sutton Publishing Publisher: Richard Publising Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 138 Description: When, in my long and happy retirement, I have been asked bv the people of this less than maritime area [Powvs] to describe what I did in my forty-four years of active naval service ending as the professional head of it, from a whole list ot distinguished appointments they all pick out one and exclaim: *Oh, were vou actually the Captain of the Ark Royal? Perhaps a surprising choice, perhaps not. This minutely detailed record of the fourth Ark Royal and the men who kept her running, of her aircraft and air department crews, of the near superhuman efforts which had to be made to keep this formidable weapon system effective at a level of intensitv in peacetime that could hardly have been exceeded in war, goes far towards explaining the position of strategic importance, public recognition and professional prestige which was held by Ark Royal IV from the time of her launch to the time, twenty-five years later, when various heritage preservation societies were squabbling, tortunatelv unsuccessfully, over her worn out structure with a view to long-term display. It is largely addressed to the professionals involved in the great enterprise of her twenty-five* year life and will be eagerly read as an extended 'Report of Proceedings' not otherwise easily available.
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Britain's Greatest Warship HMS Ark Royal IV
Language: english
Author: Sutton Publishing
Publisher: Richard Publising
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 138
Description: When, in my long and happy retirement, I have been asked bv the people of this less than maritime area [Powvs] to describe what I did in my forty-four years of active naval service ending as the professional head of it, from a whole list ot distinguished appointments they all pick out one and exclaim: *Oh, were vou actually the Captain of the Ark Royal? Perhaps a surprising choice, perhaps not.
This minutely detailed record of the fourth Ark Royal and the men who kept her running, of her aircraft and air department crews, of the near superhuman efforts which had to be made to keep this formidable weapon system effective at a level of intensitv in peacetime that could hardly have been exceeded in war, goes far towards explaining the position of strategic importance, public recognition and professional prestige which was held by Ark Royal IV from the time of her launch to the time, twenty-five years later, when various heritage preservation societies were squabbling, tortunatelv unsuccessfully, over her worn out structure with a view to long-term display. It is largely addressed to the professionals involved in the great enterprise of her twenty-five* year life and will be eagerly read as an extended 'Report of Proceedings' not otherwise easily available.
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