That included the flagship aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12), which was sold to India in 1986 and operated as the Indian Navy ...

For 58 years, HMS Hermes and later INS Viraat sailed all over the world in the service of two navies ...

HMS Hermes was a conventionally powered Centaur-class flattop that was laid down in 1944. Construction was paused for several years and the carrier wasn't launched until 1953.

Summary: The HMS Hermes, a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, served the Royal Navy from its completion in 1959 until it was decommissioned and sold to India, where it served as INS Viraat until 2017.

But now the veteran aircraft carrier HMS Hermes has reached her final destination – the breakers' yard. Construction of the ship began when the Second World War was still raging, and she ...

The HMS Hermes entered active service in the Royal Navy in 1959, was due to be decommissioned in 1981, but was saved from the scrapheap to lead British forces to victory in the Falklands in 1982.

Of course it’s sad to see a great ship pass away. But the aircraft carrier that was HMS Hermes is bowing out after a glorious lifespan unsurpassed – she’s the longest serving warship in the ...

HMS Hermes returns to Portsmouth from the Falklands in July 1982. The News PP624. Portsmouth-based HMS Hermes was a conventional British aircraft carrier and the last of the Centaur class.