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Sailor is a major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976, about life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It followed the ship on a five-and-a-half-month depl
HMS Ark Royal in 1976
HMS Ark Royal (R09)
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HMS Ark Royal was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1979, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraf
Sailor (TV series)
…Sailor is a major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976, about life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It followed the ship on a five-and-a-half-month deployment to North America in 1976. The series was filmed after the…
Ark in the late 1950s, before the port deck-edge lift was removed
Ark Royal in 1957; a further four years passed before she commenced her sea trials.
Ark Royal (background) operating with USS Independence (foreground) in the North Atlantic, 1971