A team led by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says it found the wreck of the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier that was sunk in 1942’s Battle of the Coral Sea with the loss of more ...

The USS Lexington (CV ... where her aircraft sank an Italian battleship and badly damaged two others. While German Stuka dive bombers later crippled her, HMS Illustrious was repaired in the ...

The Royal Navy's former flagship, HMS Ark Royal, is to be towed to a breakers' yard in Turkey. But how exactly do you scrap an aircraft carrier? There were schemes that offered a future of sorts ...

Over the decade that followed, several naval powers experimented to develop their aircraft carriers for use during conflicts. The most notable among these include the HMS Argus which was developed ...