The surviving warships saw lengthy service, with some being sold to such nations as Brazil, Chile, India, and Pakistan. That ...

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.

Veteran aircraft carrier HMS Hermes has made her final voyage to the breakers' yard. She was the flagship of the British fleet during the Falklands war in 1982.

The HMS Hermes served as Britain's flagship in the Falklands before being sold to India in 1986 and renamed the INS Viraat, was decommissioned in 2017 and has now been sold for scrap.

HMS Hermes was a Royal Navy warship from 1959 and was then sold to India and renamed INS Viraat, until she was finally decommissioned in 2017. | ITV National News ...

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.

H.M.S. Hermes was sunk on the morning of April 9th 1942 at 11am after an action lasting half an hour from the bombing of 85 Jap planes. During the afternoon of April 8th I was ashore with my pal ...

John Blight, 58, and Nigel Ingram, 57, denied taking any items from the wreck of HMS Hermes, which sank in the Dover Strait in 1914 and claimed 44 lives.

The surviving warships saw lengthy service, with some being sold to such nations as Brazil, Chile, India, and Pakistan. That included the flagship aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12), which was sold ...