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Builder of First Carrier Dies
DRYMEN Scotland The sixth Duke of Montrose who claimed to have designed HMS Argus the world’s first aircraft carrier died after a weeklong illness at 75 He served in the Boer War and World War I He said the Argus carried 20 to 30 planes and that plans were laid before the admiralty in 1912, two years before the war began
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