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Hermes
Photograph of the vessel HMS Hermes pictured laid up at Portsmouth Naval Base on 25th August 1984
HMS Hermes pictured laid up at Portsmouth Naval Base on 25th August 1984

1959 / 27,000t disp. - laid down as Elephant

Built by Vickers-Armstrong (Shipbuilders), Barrow-in-Furness (928)
Aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Navy

Sold to the Indian Navy in 1987 and renamed VIRAAT

Sold for scrapping, arriving at Aliaga on 22nd September 2020
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