• the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier?
• the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
• the Red Army prevented the incomplete Borodino class battlecruiser Izmail (pictured) from being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy?
• the first two classes of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers were actually conversions of other ship types?
• the Fairey Barracuda was a British carrier-borne torpedo bomber used during World War II?
• the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber, became a target tug, then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
• the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous-class carrier HMS Furious?
• the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious left her berth next to the battleship Royal Oak in Scapa Flow the day before Royal Oak was sunk by the German submarine U-47?
• the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands?
• the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf?
• the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal?
• SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser during the Battle of Midway?
• HMAS Sydney (pictured) was the first aircraft carrier owned by a British Commonwealth nation to serve in combat?
• Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (pictured) with a single torpedo?
• Zeke Zechella, who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems?
• after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation, two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga, were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
• prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea?
• an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter?
• although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers, the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines?
• Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp?

Facts on topics related to Aircraft carrier

Destroyer

• Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?
• Vice Admiral Henry Burrell (pictured) initiated a Royal Australian Navy re-equipment program in the 1960s that included new helicopters, submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, and auxiliaries?
• HMS Tynedale, a destroyer of the Royal Navy, attacked and damaged a U-boat in 1942 that would sink her a year later?
• Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
• the captain of the Italian submarine who misidentified patrol boat USS PC-496 for a destroyer and torpedoed her was court-martialed for "wasting" a torpedo on such a small ship?
• the destroyer HMS Thanet evacuated Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, just hours after the Japanese began their attack?
• the F class destroyer HMS Fury (pictured) carried the former King Edward VIII to France the day after he abdicated the throne?
• the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1888 warship Kotaka is considered as the first effective design of a destroyer?
• the Japanese destroyer Matsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission?
• the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal?

Battleship

• French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
• German sailor Max Reichpietsch, who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große, was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy?
• SMS Schleswig-Holstein, one of the five Deutschland-class battleships (pictured), fired the first shots of World War II during the Battle of Westerplatte?
• SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships (pictured), was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II?
• Dupuy de Lôme was a 19th century French naval architect, who developed the first steam battleship, the first sea-going ironclad warship, and the first large airship in history?
• HMS Benbow's (pictured) class, the Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships to mount anti-aircraft guns?
• Kotetsu, a Japanese ironclad battleship, was originally intended to be Stonewall of the Confederate States Navy but was not delivered until after the end of the American Civil War?
• pre-dreadnought battleships saw their most notable service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905?
  
• SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm (pictured), a German-built pre-dreadnought battleship, was sold to the Ottoman Empire, renamed Heireddin Barbarossa, and sunk by a British submarine during World War I?
• a crowd of 20,000 rioted in an attempt to secure the release of the mutinous crew of the battleship SMS Helgoland (pictured) in November 1918?