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HMS Hermes was a conventional British light aircraft carrier and the last of the Centaur class. Hermes was in service with the Royal Navy from 1959 until 1984, and she served as the flagship of the British forces during the 1982 Falklands War .
10 April – HMS Bulwark sold for scrap. [14] 9 May – First carrier fitted with a ski jump, HMS Hermes. [67] 2 June – HMS Ark Royal launched. [94] 13 October – USS Theodore Roosevelt laid down. [90] 9 December – HMS Triumph sold for scrap. [14] [63] 1982. USS Carl Vinson
Scrapped April 1984 HMS Hermes (R12) ex-Elephant: 42 27,800 long tons (28,246 t) 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines 21 June 1944 November 1959 Sold to India April 1986, as INS Viraat, decommissioned. [1] HMS Hermes: 42 27,800 long tons (28,246 t) 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines 21 June 1944
Like Hōshō, Hermes was based on a cruiser-type hull and she was initially designed to carry both wheeled aircraft and seaplanes.The ship's design was derived from a 1916 seaplane carrier design by Gerard Holmes and Sir John Biles, but was considerably enlarged by Sir Eustace d'Eyncourt, the Director of Naval Construction (DNC), in his April 1917 sketch design.
Hermes paid off for the last time on 22 November 1983 and sold to India after the completion of HMS Ark Royal (R07). She was refitted at Devonport Dockyard for a year and then commissioned into the Indian Navy as INS Viraat on 12 May 1987. [4] Viraat decommissioned on 6 March 2017, [7] and scrapped starting in 2020. [17]
On 2 April, orders went out to make the Royal Navy's two aircraft carriers, HMS Hermes and Invincible, ready to sail. [10] Both had been involved in exercises in February and March, and were at HMNB Portsmouth for six weeks' maintenance. Many of Hermes ' s major systems had been dismantled for the maintenance work.
The Fleet Air Arm Museum has subsequently mimicked the ship's island and flight deck in its central hall as an Aircraft Carrier Experience exhibition. The Centaur-class aircraft carrier HMS Hermes remained in service after her, but had been converted to a helicopter commando carrier in 1971, and then as a V/STOL carrier.
A Royal Navy Westland Sea King HC.4, ZA294, transferring from HMS Hermes to HMS Intrepid during the Falklands conflict, crashes into the sea after a bird strike with a black-browed albatross. The crash results in 22 fatalities including 18 members of the 22 Squadron SAS, one fatality each from the Royal Signals and Royal Air Force. [91] 20 May