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HMS Illustrious is setting off on her final journey today following 32 years in service. The Royal Navy’s former aircraft carrier is leaving Portsmouth to allow her replacement, the UK’s biggest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth into port. Work is carrying on at pace to make the dockyard ready to accept ...
Following an Illustrious career, the MOD has announced that the former aircraft carrier is to be recycled. With some 32 years of exemplary service, between 1982 and 2014, HMS Illustrious covered over 900,000 nautical miles. Operations ranged from stabilisation efforts in the immediate aftermath of the first Gulf War and delivering ...
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