#HMS Eagle

[theworldatwar]

Royal Navy aircraft carriers HMS Indomitable and HMS Eagle during Operation Pedastal. Pedastal was a British operation in order to carry supplies to Malta - August 1942. The picture was taken from the deck of the carrier HMS Victorious. The aircraft in the picture are Hawker Sea Hurricanes and a Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber

[usafphantom2]

The flight deck of HMS Eagle photographed in the Gulf of Aden during the British withdrawal from the Aden colony, November 1967.

Image: IWM (HU 106844) <1/2>

@IWM via X

A Short History Of The Aden Emergency

In 1839 Britain captured the town of Aden (now part of Yemen) in the south of the Arabian Peninsula.

Like the later seizure of Cyprus (1878) and of Egypt (1882), the occupation of Aden was a strategic rather than commercial undertaking, guarding the lines of communication with India. With British Somaliland on the ‘horn of Africa’, Aden provided control of the entrance to the Red Sea.

Following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Britain established protectorates in the hinterland of South Arabia to act as a buffer against the Ottomans who occupied Yemen. In 1937 Aden became a Crown Colony.

Following her humiliation in the Suez Crisis of 1956, Britain granted independence in February 1959 to the Federation of South Arabia, which was formed from the Aden colony and the surrounding protectorates, in order to stabilise the region, which had been dogged by years of unrest fuelled by Arab nationalism and anti-colonialism.

Having replaced Cyprus as the base of Middle East Land Forces, Aden was of even greater strategic importance to Britain, maintaining with Far East Land Forces in Singapore its global presence. In 1962 the British government announced that a permanent British garrison would be maintained in Aden. Yet in 1967, the British were forced to withdraw from the colony.

Aircraft include De Haviland Sea Vixen FAW.2s of 899 Naval Air Squadron and Blackburn Bucaneer S.1 and S.2s of 800 Naval Air Squadron. HMS Albion, HMS Fearless and HMS Auriga are visible behind.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1955 illustration by Claude Buckle: HMS Eagle by totallymystified Via Flickr: From The Eagle Annual No. 5.

[royally-obsessed]

On this day in 1946

Launch Of HMS Eagle

19th March 1946: Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, with Sir Frederick Rebbeck the managing director of Harland and Wolff, on the launching platform of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

[all-action-all-picture]

The Hornet No. 387, dated 6 February 1971. The Hornet Gallery of Courage - Fire in the Bomb Room cover. This refers to Sub-Lieutenant Sandy Hodge who received the Empire Gallantry Medal for his actions when a bomb exploded aboard HMS Eagle on 14 March 1940. DC Thomson.

[envisitadecortesia]

El águila al rescate

El águila al rescate

El día 3 de abril de 1930 una nueva agrupación naval inglesa visitaba el puerto de Barcelona, esta llegaría en dos grupos, el primer grupo estaba compuesto por el portaaviones HMS Eagle, más los destructores HMS Acasta (H-09), HMS Anthony (H-40), HMS Keppel (D-84) y HMS Whiterington (D-76); el segundo grupo llegaría el día 4 y estaba formado por el destructor HMS Douglas (D-90), y los buques…

[ash-and-starlight]

modern au and esen’s honkers are haunting the instagram feed

[remythologise]

It'll be over before you know it. I have the best knives in the business.

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

you guys know the talon-lock freefall death spiral bald eagles do for their courtship ritual? i think dior and nimloth had the same energy in their relationship

[gigglesandfreckles-hp]

RE: that football anon. This is probably going to sound so weird but ive been trying to figure out if you were british for a few weeks now so this gives me some closure i didn't know I needed 😝 its always hard to tell with HP writers

i love that you contributed to the football anon discussion by becoming another football anon. thank you for the consistency. ;-)

that being said—i'm actually only sort of british!! my parents are both american and i was technically born in the u.s. (literally only for citizenship purposes) but lived my childhood in england up into my teen years. i had a chance at complete americanisation then after moving back to the us. but lost it all by dating and subsequently marrying the only other english person in my american high school haha. who, ironically, i knew as a child...in england. it's a small world after all and all that, i guess? or maybe he was just OBSESSED with me??? probably definitely that one tbh.

but tldr; i have the honour of picking and choosing when i want to be pretentious by straddling america and the uk. and i will always choose to be pretentious about football.

[werewolf-artfriend]

a silly lil drawing that happened to coincide perfectly with valentines day! based on a figurine ill link in a reblog :)

timelapse under the read-more!

[the-delta-42]

I #modified my #eagle /#eaglewall 1/1200 #hmswarspite #battleship into a convertible waterline/full hull model #modelship #worldwar1 #worldwari #ww1 #wwi #worldwar2 #worldwarII #ww2 #wwii

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[monkeyssalad-blog]

1955 illustration by Claude Buckle: HMS Vanguard by totallymystified Via Flickr: From The Eagle Annual No. 5.

[gtzgoblin]

Taylor Swift better not make seagulls popular, I did not get this seagull tattoo on my forearm because they were a cool bird I got it because they're shithead animals and I vibe with that

[downthetubes]

"Danger Unlimited" stalks Eagle Times!

The latest issue of the long-running Eagle Times is available now on subscription from The Eagle Society, offering another enjoyable mix of features on the original Eagle comic, and more

The latest issue of the long-running Eagle Times is available now on subscription from The Eagle Society, offering another enjoyable mix of features on the original Eagle comic, and more. This issue has a decided American influence, not only launching a new series on the Eagle strip, “Jeff Arnold”, written by David Britton, taking a look at the real (and sometimes darker) real history that…

[hexjulia]

do you think someone out there has commissioned cosimo de' medici statue breastplate inspired nippleclamps. i feel like that almost has to be the case.