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Sunday 25 February 2018

British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes modernized according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1935 no. 2


An item referred to the magazine Revista Marittime dated January 1935 reporting the British aircraft carrier Hermes was modernized, costs 217.700 pound sterling. Still she could carry just 15-20 aircraft with her.(1)

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1. Building ordered in April 1917, laid down by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Newcastle on Tyne, England on 15 January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919, commissioned on 18 February 1924, training ship since 16 July 1938, again aircraft carrier since 24 August 1939 and sunk by Japanese aircraft off Batticaloa, Ceylon underway to the Maledives on 9 April 1942.