Aircraft
carrier HMS Furious after her 1925 refit. Note the fighter on the lower ‘take off
deck’ and the twin control positions either side of the flight deck
HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924.
