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Podcast: The Mariner's Mirror Podcast
Episode: Iconic Ships 10: Ark Royal
Description: Today we are merging this month's theme on airpower with one of our running series – on iconic ships - in which we ask the curator of an existing historic ship to make the case for their ship being iconic or we ask a historian to make the case for a long-lost ship being iconic. Today we are certainly in the 'long-lost category' as the vessel in question - the carrier HMS Ark Royal - was torpedoed and sunk off Gibraltar in 13 November 1941.HMS Ark Royal, launched in 1937, represented a breakthrough in the design of...