THE most recent Ark Royal was the Invincible class aircraft carrier (pennant number R07), built by Swan Hunter in Wallsend in the early Eighties. Originally due to be called HMS Indomitable, she ...

Harrier jump jets take off for the last time from the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, bringing an end to a proud history of naval and aviation endeavour. Flight Commander James Blackmore was ...

Ark Royal's sister ship, HMS Illustrious, is due to be decommissioned next year, and a new class of British carrier, designed to launch and recover the F-35 joint strike aircraft, won't come into ...

Royal Navy Photo. ABOARD HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, ... fixed-wing aviation off a carrier deck since the U.K. flew the last sortie of AV-8B Harriers off the now-decommissioned HMS Ark Royal (R07) in 2011.

CEREMONIAL music stirred the still air and hardened sailors wept openly as the Royal Navy’s flagship, HMS Ark Royal, was decommissioned yesterday. The final 150 sailors privileged to serve on ...

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The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal has been decommissioned at a ceremony in its home base of Portsmouth. The warship was scrapped after 25 years' service as part of the government's defence budget ...

Read HMS Ark Royal: Final journey latest on ITV News. All the Monday 20th May 2013 news Tyneside built aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is making its final journey before being scrapped.

Read HMS Ark Royal sold as scrap latest on ITV News. All the Sunday 9th September 2012 news The MOD has accepted a £3m bid to turn the former Royal Navy flagship - built on the River Tyne - into ...

The news was that HMS Ark Royal had taken a direct hit and was sinking. The third Ark Royal had been adopted by Leeds on 4.11.1941 and 10 days after it was sunk.

HMS Ark Royal leaves Newcastle after paying a visit to the city in which she was built as part of her final farewell Credit: ... (R07) - the fifth Ark Royal - which went into service in 1985.