HMS Vindictive (1918)
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HMS Vindictive was a warship built during the First World War for the Royal Navy. Originally designed as a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser and laid down under the name Cavendish, she was converted into an
Vindictive as an aircraft carrier
Vindictive in China after re-conversion into a cruiser, 1926
Vindictive in September 1937 as a training ship
Vindictive nearly hit by bombs while at anchor in Harstad Fjord, 17 May 1940
HMS Vindictive (1897)
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HMS Vindictive was a British Arrogant-class cruiser built at Chatham Dockyard. She was launched on 9 December 1897 and completed in 1899. The vessel participated in the Zeebrugge Raid.
HMS Vindictive (1918)
…on 17 January 1918. In June she was renamed Vindictive, the fifth ship of that name in the RN, to perpetuate the name of the old protected cruiser Vindictive, which had distinguished herself in the Zeebrugge Raid of April 1918 and had then been sunk as a blockship at Ostend in May. She commissioned on 1…
HMS Vindictive in 1900
HMS Vindictive sunk after the Second Ostend Raid
Vindictive's damaged superstructure
HMS Vindictive memorial in Ostend at its original location