Even now, 100 years after the first purpose-built carrier HMS Hermes was laid down, major naval powers are still building ...

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 Sept.

The carrier was sold through an internet site ... She saw action in the Falklands war when she was deployed with HMS Hermes and took over as Flagship of the British Fleet when Hermes was sold ...

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 ...

But carriers, once built, can serve for a long time. One of the longest-serving was HMS Hermes, which spent a total of 58 years in the British and Indian navies. HMS Hermes was a conventionally ...