HMS Indefatigable (R10)
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HMS Indefatigable was an Implacable-class
Implacable class aircraft carrier
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 aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier
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 of the British Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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. Indefatigable was present at the formal surrender of the Japanese
Japanese Instrument of Surrender
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 on 2 September in Tokyo Bay
Tokyo Bay
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. She later helped to repatriate Allied POWs held in Japan and was used as a spotting ship for later US nuclear tests in the Pacific ocean. Indefatigable was scrapped in 1956.
Built at the famous John Brown Yard on the Clyde
River Clyde
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, at Clydebank
Clydebank
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, Scotland
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, Indefatigable was laid down on 3 November 1939 and launched on 8 December 1942.
 
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