The people of Portsmouth, England, on Monday turned out to bid farewell to the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, destined for a Turkish scrap yard after its decommissioning two years ago.

The Royal Navy's former flagship, HMS Ark Royal, is to be towed to a breakers' yard in Turkey. But how exactly do you scrap an aircraft carrier? There were schemes that offered a future of sorts ...

The immediate axing of HMS Ark Royal will leave the UK without an aircraft carrier capable of flying jets for around a decade while two new vessels are built at a cost of £5.2 billion. That project ...

The Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is to be scrapped along with its fleet of Harrier jets as the coalition prepares to announce cuts in the Strategic Defence and Security ...

The Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier was built at Swan Hunter's dockyard in Newcastle. :: Construction on the hull began in 1978 and the ship was commissioned into service in 1985.

Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is being sold for £3m for scrap metal by the Ministry of Defence to help tackle a multi-billion pound defence deficit. The removal of the Royal Navy's former ...

This cost-saving measure left Britain without a single carrier for fixed-wing planes, with HMS Illustrious, which can carry only helicopters, as the Royal Navy’s sole vessel capable of carrying ...

The Royal Navy's flagship, HMS Ark Royal, will be scrapped almost immediately as part of the government's defence cuts. The ship, which celebrated its silver jubilee in July of this year ...

Legendary Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal is to be scrapped early because of the ... rather than in 2014 as originally planned. HMS Ark Royal is the most famous name in British naval history.

HMS Ark Royal will be sold as scrap metal for £3million. The ship was decommissioned in 2010, five years ahead of schedule and has been in Portsmouth harbour ever since. On the deck of HMS Ark ...

THIS is the fate of the Navy’s former flagship HMS Ark Royal ... The MoD has said Ark Royal, axed under the Strategic Defence Review, could be scrapped, sold or recycled.

The Royal Navy's flagship, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, will be scrapped early as part of the government's defence review, the BBC has learned. The move is part of the price paid by the Royal ...