Britain’s Falklands campaign relied entirely on HMS Hermes, its crucial floating base for war operations. Argentina’s strategy was simple but bold: destroy the British carriers and secure victory.

HMS Prince of Wales (R09) will depart its homeport in Portsmouth on April 22 and deploy as the lead ship in the U.K. Carrier ...

Its role as an anti-aircraft defense ship gained importance with the sinking of HMS Coventry on May 25. When the aircraft carrier Hermes returned to the UK, Bristol took over as flagship until ...

Together with HMS Hermes she was home of the Task Force ... HMS Invincible was the lead ship of three light aircraft carriers. She was launched on 3 May 1977 and is the seventh ship to carry ...

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 ...

King Charles is Commodore-in-Chief of Aircraft Carriers and was taken ... which operated from the Commando carrier HMS Hermes — recalled his own navy service, which culminated in Feb. 1976 ...