CARRIER FOR KOREA—Theseus Takes on Supplies at Portsmouth: The 13.350-ton aircraft carrier Theseus has been equipped at. Portsmouth for service in Korean waters. where she. wilt join other units of the Fleet. Naval airmen taking aboard aerial bombs to be stowed away on the carrier for future use by her aircraft. The Theseus, one of the Colossus class aircraft carriers and built in 1944, carries about 40 aircraft. Her peacetime complement numbers 850, excluding the air personnel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 September 1950, Page 5
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77CARRIER FOR KOREA—Theseus Takes on Supplies at Portsmouth: The 13.350-ton aircraft carrier Theseus has been equipped at. Portsmouth for service in Korean waters. where she. wilt join other units of the Fleet. Naval airmen taking aboard aerial bombs to be stowed away on the carrier for future use by her aircraft. The Theseus, one of the Colossus class aircraft carriers and built in 1944, carries about 40 aircraft. Her peacetime complement numbers 850, excluding the air personnel. Wanganui Chronicle, 2 September 1950, Page 5
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