The world's first operational aircraft carrier. At the outbreak of WWI the Royal Navy converted the steamship RMS Campania into a seaplane tender / aircraft carrier. With its sloping flight deck float planes could be flown off using jettison-able wheel carriages. The first flight was a Short type 184 torpedo bomber in June 1916. This was deemed so successful that a specific a/c, the Fairey Campania, was designed to equip the ship and several were loaded aboard.
HMS Campania was later...
