HMS Illustrious (R87) during WW2
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A selected timeline of HMS Illustrious (R87):
13 January 1937 - ordered from Vickers-Armstrong
27 April 1937 - laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness
5 April 1939 - launched at Barrow-in-Furness *
21 May 1941 - completed
25 May 1940 - commissioned
End of August 1940 - joined the Mediterranean Fleet
11 November 1940 - 21 Swordfish aircraft from Illustrious attack Taranto harbour (sinking one and damaging two Italian battleships)
10 January 1941 - damaged by German aircraft
23 January 1941 - travelled to Alexandria, Egypt for temporary repairs
19 March 1941 - sailed firstly to Durban (South Africa) and subsequently to Norfolk, Virginia (U.S.A.) for refitting
16 December 1941 - while returning to Britain, collided in heavy seas with her sister ship HMS Formidable (subsequently repaired at Greenock)
23 March 1942 - sailed for the Indian Ocean
May 1942 - took part in Operation 'Ironclad', the Allied landings at Diego Suarez, Madagascar (against the Vichy French)
June 1942 to January 1943 - remained in the Indian Ocean
March to May 1943 - refit at Birkenhead (Merseyside)
July 1943 - joined Force A of the Home Fleet for Operation 'Governor'
September 1943 - transferred to Force H (Mediterranean Fleet) and provided air cover for Operation 'Avalanche' (Allied invasion of Sicily)
December 1943 - following another refit in Britain Illustrious rejoins the Indian Pacific (Far Eastern) Fleet
March 1945 - Illustrious and others from the Pacific Fleet join with the American Pacific Fleet (designated Task Force 57)
26 March 1945 to 9 April 1945 - Illustrious (as part of Task Force 57) provides air support for the invasion of Okinawa (damaged by a near miss from a kamikaze pilot on 6 April)
14 April 1945 - Illustrious sent to the Philippines for inspection and then to Sydney, Australia.
June 1945 - sails to Rosyth for repairs and refit (completed June 1946)
June 1946 to December 1954 - becomes a trials and training aircraft carrier in the Home Fleet (decommissioned at end of 1954)
3 November 1956 - scrapped at Faslaine
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* For an earlier article about HMS Illustrious on this website, including a photograph taken at Barrow-in-Furness just before her launch in 1939, click on the following link:
HMS Illustrious at Barrow-in-Furness, 1939
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The Motto of HMS Illustrious:
'Vox Non Incerta'
("No Uncertain Voice")
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