A great collection of photos Kermit, thanks for sharing them with us.
#4 the Seafire takeoff, looks as if there is plenty of FOD on the flight deck which would be no worry to those guys but not allowed now.
In the mid 1950's we had a FAA pilot on our squadron for a while and he had an amazing collection of cine film. It was entirely composed of the deck landing accidents/incidents that he had suffered.
Each one was only the last 15 to 20 secs of each flight but the whole film ran for about 20 minutes !. Many of those guys certainly had an exciting flying life.