HMS Argus was completed in 1918 and became central to Royal Navy naval-aviation experiments during the interwar years. Her deployments to the Far East and other destinations extended that work beyond home waters. During World War II she served as a training carrier and ferried aircraft to Malta, where her large lifts proved useful. The contemporary figures give her a displacement of about 14,450 tons, a top speed of 20 knots, six 4-inch anti-aircraft guns, and roughly 15 aircraft. Those modest numbers provide a baseline for the larger carriers that followed during the decade.
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Argus bridges experiment, training, and ferry work
HMS Argus links interwar experimentation with naval-aviation training and wartime aircraft-ferry missions to Malta, while her modest specifications set the decade's baseline.