Peterthegreat
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It was indeed.
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Gloster
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If you were flying with Captain Tobias Wilcox on Coconut Airways Flight 372, where would you be going?
Mcr Warrior
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Think it was actually Captain Tobias Willcock and these are the lyrics from a 1970s pop song. So, are we flying to somewhere like Jamaica in the sunny Caribbean Sea?
Gloster
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There are variations of the captain’s name: I kept it simple.
Correct. Bridgetown to be exact. It was the 1975 Number One by Typically Tropical.
To you to produce the next hit.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mumbai Indians ?
Correct. They have won it four times
You win by nine wickets.
Time for a strategic time out while you think up the next question.
CarltonA
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As more than twenty four hours have elapsed, I will pose a new question.
What sort of ship was HMS Rooke, which was paid off in the 1990's?
What sort of ship was HMS Rooke, which was paid off in the 1990's?
D6130
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A minelayer?
CarltonA
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No, not one of those.
EbbwJunction1
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Was it a "stone frigate", i.e. a shore base?
Peter Mugridge
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I don't remember seeing a ship of that name in the Navy lists when I looked at them while I was at school in the 198os, so unless my memory has failed again it probably wasn't an actual ship but one of those shore based training places?
Peter Mugridge
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Snap!! Literally one second between us!! 
If we're right, Ebbw got in first...
If we're right, Ebbw got in first...
EbbwJunction1
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Thanks!Snap!! Literally one second between us!!
If we're right, Ebbw got in first...
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CarltonA
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Correct, it was the naval base at Gibraltar. Please take the helm.
Bad luck @Peter Mugridge for getting pipped at the post.
EbbwJunction1
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Thank you!
What was significant about the Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes (95)?
What was significant about the Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes (95)?
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Only RN ship to be named after a French luxury fashion brand?
EbbwJunction1
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I'd like to say yes .... but sadly I'm not able to!
Donny Dave
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Try a different tack, only ship named after a Greek god
Peter Mugridge
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Now being a bit ancient I remember this from the Falklands news reports - first carrier to have the "ski jump" fitted.
Peter Mugridge
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On that one... if I hadn't written all that waffle before posting, I would have got in first! I should have quickly got the answer out there and then gone back to edit the rest in...
I seem rather confused -- sorry: have realised that said name shows up, above; before that post of mine. And, not a subject I in fact know anything about; feel that I need to say, "forget my quoted post".
OhNoAPacer
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First ship to be designed to carry aircraft.
GRALISTAIR
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EbbwJunction1
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Yes - see below.
That might have been a later HMS Hermes (R12).
Yes - see below.
But it is - see below.
Mr W Pedia tells me the following:
"HMS Hermes (95) was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's Hosho was the first to be commissioned. The ship's construction began during the First World War, but she was not completed until after the end of the war, having been delayed by multiple changes in her design after she was laid down."
Turning to the other suggestion that she was the first ship to have a ski jump, as I said above, that might have been a later HMS Hermes (R12). This happened when Hermes (R12) underwent one more conversion when she was refitted at Portsmouth from 1980 to June 1981, during which a 12° ski-jump and facilities for operating BAe Sea Harriers were incorporated. I can't find any reference that she was the first ship to be so fitted, although I can't rule it out.
Mr Calthrop - despite withdrawing your suggestion, you are the winner, and I'd invite you to take off with a new suggestion!
@EbbwJunction1: thank you -- but I'd rather win "honestly", than per blind stab through confused fog: am sure that all others who engaged re this question, know much more about naval / naval warfare matters, than I do ! Open floor, please.