Talk:HMS Indefatigable (R10)

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Built at the famous John Brown yard on Clydeside, HMS Indefatigable was commissioned around September 1943. The first captain was Captain Q D Graham.

The first mission (rather in the form of a 'working-up' exercise) was a set of raids on the Tirpitz. It was not a spectacular success with all sorts of equipment problems showing up.

The ship's squadrons operated a number of aicraft types including the Supermarine Seafire and Fairey Firefly.

After dockyard work on the problems the ship sailed on November 19th 1944 for the Far east to join the British Pacific Fleet as flagship of Rear-Admiral Philip Vian (Vian of HMS Cossack) who commanded the carrier group of the BPF. He transferred his flag to HMS Indomitable on arrival at Colombo on 10th December 1944.

On 1st April 1945 while operating in support of the Okinawa expedition, the ship was hit at the base of the superstructure by a Kamikaze suicide bomber. The ship was unable to operate aircraft for about 5 hours.

my great uncle served on her during world war 2 and during the kamikaze attack had to jump from his station into the netting around the ship. hes got quite a few stories too do with the ship.Corustar

That's great! Maybe you should get him to add some to this article. --Alphachimp ^talk 15:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

i wasnt expecting a fast reaction to my post well ive not talked to him in over a year he lives in the south and i live in the north. well hes also got pictures of general naval life at the time pictures of rum being handed out on ship and a picture of 4 british admirals walking together on the flight deck.the best picture he has is one of the japanese prime minister signing the peace treaty with the british and hes actually in the picture holding a tommy gun. a very good peice of family history.Corustar