Equipped with Vought SB2U Vindicators and after training, departed the United States on October 15, 1942 on the SS Lurline.
Chance Vought | Vought | Ling-Temco-Vought | Vought SB2U Vindicator | The Vindicator | Vought V-141 | Vought F4U Corsair | The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator | Tachau and Vought | Galway Vindicator |
811 Squadron was reformed in July 1941 at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), near Portsmouth, as a torpedo-bomber reconnaissance squadron, and was equipped with two Sea Hurricanes and fourteen American Vought SB2U Vindicators, which the British called the "Chesapeake".