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- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) length "181051.2".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) abstract "HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) was an armed merchant cruiser and escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She had previously been the ocean liner Pretoria Castle of the Union-Castle Line; built at Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland and launched in 1938.She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in October 1939, and converted to an armed merchant cruiser with 6-inch (150 mm) and 3-inch (76 mm) guns, entering service in November 1939. In this role she served mainly in the South Atlantic.In July 1942 she was bought outright by the Navy for conversion to an escort carrier at the Swan Hunter shipyards in Tyne and Wear. She was commissioned in this role in July 1943 and was operated as a trials and training carrier, seeing no active combat service. In 1945 she twice became part of aviation history, firstly when British test pilot Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown landed a Bell Airacobra Mk. 1 on her flight deck - the first carrier landing made using an aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage, due to a declared emergency during initial trials for rubber deck landings planned for future carriers, and then by hosting the first ever landings and take-offs by a glider, performed by John Sproule in a Slingsby T.20 as part of research into 'Round-down' turbulence. Post-war, the ship was sold back to the Union-Castle Line in 1946 and converted back to a passenger liner, being renamed the Warwick Castle and operating on routes from England to South Africa. She was eventually sold and scrapped in Barcelona in 1962.".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) builder Harland_and_Wolff.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) commissioningDate "1939-11-28".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) commissioningDate "1943-07-29".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) length "181.0512".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipBeam "23.1648".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipLaunch "1938-10-12".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) status "Requisitioned by Royal Navy in October 1939".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) status "Sold back to the Union-Castle Line in 1946 and converted to a passenger ship".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) status "scrapped, July 1962".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) thumbnail HMS_Pretoria_Castle.jpg?width=300.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) topSpeed "33.336".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) wikiPageExternalLink 3299.html.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) wikiPageExternalLink uk_unioncastle.htm.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) wikiPageExternalLink PRETORIA_CASTLE.htm.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) wikiPageID "9928992".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) wikiPageRevisionID "548065262".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) hasPhotoCollection HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61).
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) hideHeader "yes".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipAcquired "1946".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipAircraft "21".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipBuilder Harland_and_Wolff.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipCommissioned "1939-11-28".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipCommissioned "1943-07-29".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipCountry "United Kingdom".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipDecommissioned "26".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipDecommissioned "August 1942".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipDisplacement "23450".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipFate "Requisitioned by Royal Navy in October 1939".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipFate "Sold back to the Union-Castle Line in 1946 and converted to a passenger ship".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipFate "scrapped, July 1962".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipLaunched "1938-10-12".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipName "HMS Pretoria Castle".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipName "Pretoria Castle".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipName "RMMV Warwick Castle".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipPropulsion "Diesel, 16,000 bhp".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipRefit "Converted from armed merchantman to escort carrier".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) shipRegistry "London".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) subject Category:1938_ships.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) subject Category:Aircraft_carriers_of_the_Royal_Navy.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) subject Category:Auxiliary_cruisers_of_the_Royal_Navy.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) subject Category:Ships_built_in_Belfast.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) subject Category:Ships_of_the_Union-Castle_Line.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) subject Category:World_War_II_aircraft_carriers_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) point "23.783333333333335 -22.25".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type MeanOfTransportation.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type Ship.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type Product.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type Ship.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type TransportationDevice_Vehicle.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type DesignedArtifact.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) type SpatialThing.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) comment "HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) was an armed merchant cruiser and escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She had previously been the ocean liner Pretoria Castle of the Union-Castle Line; built at Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland and launched in 1938.She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in October 1939, and converted to an armed merchant cruiser with 6-inch (150 mm) and 3-inch (76 mm) guns, entering service in November 1939.".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) label "HMS Pretoria Castle (F61)".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) label "プレトリア・キャッスル (護衛空母)".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) sameAs プレトリア・キャッスル_(護衛空母).
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) sameAs m.02px8k3.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) sameAs Q4408609.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) sameAs Q4408609.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) lat "23.783333333333335".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) long "-22.25".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) wasDerivedFrom HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61)?oldid=548065262.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) depiction HMS_Pretoria_Castle.jpg.
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) isPrimaryTopicOf HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61).
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) name "HMS Pretoria Castle".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) name "Pretoria Castle".
- HMS_Pretoria_Castle_(F61) name "RMMV Warwick Castle".