Royal Navy, de Havillad Sea Vixens operating from the decks of Centaur-class light aircraft carriers. 

Summer of 1971, the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal during “Exercise Lymelight” broadcast event for  BBC’s program Tomorrow’s World. 

You can see some of the most iconic aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm of that era, like the F-4K Phantom, Fairey Gannet and Blackburn Buccaneer. 

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Royal Navy, McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom II of the Fleet Air Arm operating from the deck of the HMS Ark Royal. 

29 November 1944 , USS Archerfish sinks the aircraft carrier Shinano.

While sailing in the Mediterranean sea, in 1962, the American aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) flashed the Italian Amerigo Vespucci with light signal asking «Who are you?», the full rigged ship answered «Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy». The US ship replied «You are the most beautiful ship in the world».

An aerial view of Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California (USA), with three docked aircraft carriers on 25 August 1971. The carriers are the USS Ranger (CVA-61) (in dry dock), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and the USS Hancock (CVA-19) (left).

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Aircraft carrier Kaga at anchor off Japan, 1930.

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A couple of Buccaneers over the aircraft carrier Eagle,1964

A Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and the experimental Northrop Grumman X-47B take-off from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.