British aircraft carrier Eagle. The first aircraft carrier of the classic design

The aircraft carrier "needle" (HMS Eagle) is the first ship of this class, created according to a scheme recognized as classical: with a continuous flight deck and a superstructure -ostrosa ", shifted to the right side. Many of the technical solutions used on it were repeatedly repeated on subsequent aircraft carriers, not only British. The on the eve of the First World War, by order of the Government of Chile, as a battleship Almirante Kokhrain ", the future aircraft carrier was already bought by the Admiralty on the slipway and rebuilt (the needle became the only ship of the British Navy with metric units and tools marked in Spanish) At the time of commissioning in 1924, he was the largest aircraft carrier in the world. From the very first days of World War II, he fought in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the South Atlantic. On August 11, 1942, during the Operation "Podestal" - one of the most famous operations of the Royal Fleet, accompanying the convoy in Malta by the aircraft carrier was sunk by the German submarine, and the Luftwaffe remaining without air cover was defeated.
This book for the first time in all details talks about the vicissitudes of the design and construction of the first aircraft carrier of the classical scheme, the features of its design, prolonged service and active combat use. A separate section is dedicated to the aircraft carrier to aircraft carrier.
The publication is illustrated by exclusive drawings and photos