HMS Hermes was sold to India and for years was the Indian Navy's flagship . The dismantling of the Indian Navy's former flagship, Viraat, (ex HMS Hermes) has been kept on hold by the country's ...

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 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.

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 aircraft carrier served Britain’s Royal Navy for more than half a century.In fact, from its keel laying in 1944 to scrapping in 2021, the massive vessel stalked the seas for ...

On the calm morning of May 4, 1982, HMS Sheffield stood guard as a forward picket west of the British fleet near the Falklands. But at 10:00am, the quiet shattered. Chaos swept through British command ...

Britain's Falklands operation critically depended on HMS Hermes, making its destruction a key Argentine strategy. On May 25th, Argentine Super Etendard jets launched their last Exocet missiles ...

HMS Hermes was built during the Second World War and led the Falklands taskforce in 1982 in a distinguished history in the Royal Navy which spanned more than three decades from the aircraft ...

HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier the world had seen, built in 1918 and commissioned in 1923. HMS Hermes under attack in April 1942: She distinguished herself in the Far East, ...

HMS Hermes was sunk by a German submarine in the Dover Strait in 1914. Kent Police started investigating in 2015 with several other bodies in England and France after a number of items were ...

HMS Hermes was sunk by a German submarine in the Dover Strait in 1914 Two men have been charged with removing historical artefacts from a sunken World War One Royal Navy warship in the English ...