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2. HMS Hermes (R12) - Wikipedia

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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 .

3. HMS Hermes (95) - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Centaur-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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   [2] [5] Hermes was the last ship completed - in 1959 - and the only one to be fully modernized. [4] Her career as a conventional carrier ended in 1970 while operating Sea Vixens and Blackburn Buccaneers ; [ 6 ] afterwards, she served as a helicopter carrier and then as a V/STOL carrier operating Sea Harrier fighters.

5. List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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   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

6. HMS Hermes - Wikipedia

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   Hermes foundered in 1797. HMS Hermes (1798) was a 22-gun ship purchased in 1798 and sold in 1802. HMS Hermes (1803) was a 16-gun sloop, originally the civilian Majestic launched in 1801 at Whitby. She was purchased in 1803 and sold in 1810. HMS Hermes (1811) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1811 and burned in 1814 during a highly ...

7. HMS Hermes (1898) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Hermes was a Highflyer-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. She spent much of her early career as flagship for various foreign stations before returning home in 1913 to be assigned to the reserve Third Fleet. The ship was modified later that year as the first experimental seaplane carrier in the Royal Navy. In that ...