Talk:HMS Indefatigable (R10)

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Built at the famous John Brown yard on Clydeside, HMS Indefatigable was commissioned around September 1943. The first captain was Captain Q D Graham.

The first mission (rather in the form of a 'working-up' exercise) was a set of raids on the Tirpitz. It was not a spectacular success with all sorts of equipment problems showing up.

The ship's squadrons operated a number of aicraft types including the Supermarine Seafire and Fairey Firefly.

After dockyard work on the problems the ship sailed on November 19th 1944 for the Far east to join the British Pacific Fleet as flagship of Rear-Admiral Philip Vian (Vian of HMS Cossack) who commanded the carrier group of the BPF. He transferred his flag to HMS Indomitable on arrival at Colombo on 10th December 1944.

On 1st April 1945 while operating in support of the Okinawa expedition, the ship was hit at the base of the superstructure by a Kamikaze suicide bomber. The ship was unable to operate aircraft for about 5 hours.

my great uncle served on her during world war 2 and during the kamikaze attack had to jump from his station into the netting around the ship. hes got quite a few stories too do with the ship.Corustar

That's great! Maybe you should get him to add some to this article. --Alphachimp ^talk 15:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

i wasnt expecting a fast reaction to my post well ive not talked to him in over a year he lives in the south and i live in the north. well hes also got pictures of general naval life at the time pictures of rum being handed out on ship and a picture of 4 british admirals walking together on the flight deck.the best picture he has is one of the japanese prime minister signing the peace treaty with the british and hes actually in the picture holding a tommy gun. a very good peice of family history.Corustar

Goodwood

I have read through many sources, Peillard, Sink the Tirpitz, Sturtivant, Mccart, Brown 1968, Harrison (Fairey Barracuda) including the admiralty war diaries. No luftwaffe opposition was encounterd during Goodwood. Brown 1968 discussing Goodwood: " No enemy air opposition was encountered during the strikes on Tirpitz..." Thomas, Royal Navy Aces p.66-67 details fighter operations during Goodwood and again, there is no mention of Luftwaffe fighters. NO aerial combat between Luftwaffe fighters and FAA aircraft occurred during Goodwood. Your source is completely inaccurate and should be removed ASAP.Damwiki1 (talk) 18:20, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Added additional web source, Asmussen - no luftwaffe opposition, and G&D, 267-268, who state 11 FAA losses total from all raids, no Luftwaffe opposition. Sturivant, British Naval Aviation, p109 again no luftwaffe opposition.Damwiki1 (talk) 19:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Conceded, see your talk page for a lengthy response on that issue and others.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:04, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

new photo

I've uploaded a photo of Indefatigable.

--Merbabu (talk) 08:32, 17 December 2022 (UTC)