Specifications Shipyards Vickers-Armstrong - High Walker1 List of Ships Filter: AllUK - Royal Navy .......... 1 Hide Transfers Hide derivatives 19171948Royal Navy47HMS Furious1 units Events 1915-jun-08Laid downLaid down 47 HMS Furious as a Light Battlecruiser but design altered during build. 1916-aug-15LaunchedLaunched 47 HMS Furious with forward gun turret removed and replaced by a hangar and flight deck, sloping towards the prow. 1917CommissionedCommissioned 47 HMS Furious work completed on 4 Jul 1917. 1917-aug-02TrialsTrials 47 HMS Furious first ever deck landing on a carrier. 1919-nov-21RefitRefit 47 HMS Furious entered Rosyth for a period in reserve, before a refit essentially stripped her back and rebuilt her asa flush-deck carrier. 1926-may-06DeploymentDeployment 47 HMS Furious performed first ever deck landing at night of a 462 Flt Blackburn Dart. 1935-sep-09TrialsTrials 47 HMS Furious first rotary wing landing on a British carrier underway, conducted by Avro Rota K4230. 1948DecommissionedDecommissioned 47 HMS Furious
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