Together with HMS Hermes she was home of the Task Force strike force made up of the V/TOL Harriers and Sea Harriers that proved a formidable and versatile weapon even outnumbered by the Argentine ...

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 ...

Lying in its watery grave, at a depth of a little over 50 meters off the East coast, the world's first aircraft carrier, HMS Hermes is Sri Lanka's star shipwreck. Sunk by Japanese bombers during World ...

Even now, 100 years after the first purpose-built carrier HMS Hermes was laid down, major naval powers are still building these ships. Not everyone does aircraft carriers correctly, and there have ...

That included the flagship aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12), which was sold to India in 1986 and operated as the Indian Navy's INS Viraat until 2017. When the warship was retired, a crowdfunding ...

Conceived over 100 years ago starting with Britain’s HMS Hermes, the dedicated aircraft carrier is a feat of modern naval engineering. Building one is a massive technical and financial ...

Dedications have come in from around the country after the death of a man described as having the Royal Navy in his blood. Keith Crawford MBE was in the institution for 23 years and then chair of the ...