HMS Hermes (12)
Quick Facts
- Ship Name
- HMS Hermes
- Type
- Aircraft Carrier
- Class
- Centaur-class aircraft carrier
- Pennant Number
- 12
- Launched
- 1953
- Built at
- Vickers-Armstrong
- Commissioned
- 1959
- Armament
- Carrier air group
- Propulsion
- Steam turbines
- Role
- Aircraft carrier
- Notable for
- Later served in the Falklands context
- Fate
- Sold and later scrapped
- Status
- Decommissioned
HMS Hermes was a Centaur-class carrier later adapted for helicopter and STOVL operations, becoming one of the Royal Navy’s best-known postwar carriers.