Hms Illustrious Mugs
Description: HMS Illustrious is a aircraft carrier of United Kingdom, first commissioned in 1940. This vintage naval artwork depicts a Mediterranean sea with naval aircraft, a straight flight deck and distant escort ships. Weathered steel, directional light and foaming waves give the main vessel depth and a sense of movement, while ship-name lettering and a country emblem complete the composition. A historical illustration for naval enthusiasts, maritime collectors and military history readers. Every image in this collection is created with care and the intention of making its details as complete and historically accurate as possible. The scene is an artistic reconstruction, not a documentary photograph; the commissioning year refers to the vessel’s fir
Description: World War 2 - HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion and working up was with the Mediterranean Fleet, in which her aircraft's most notable achievement was sinking one Italian battleship and badly damaging two others during the Battle of Taranto in late 1940. The carrier participated in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa until mechanical defects arising from accumulated battle damage became so severe she was ordered home early for repairs in May 1945.
