HMS Illustrious just made its final voyage out of Portsmouth harbour. The ship is bound for Turkey where it has been sold to a recycling plant for £2.1 million. HMS Illustrious was put into ...

HMS Illustrious was laid down at Swan Hunter on the River Tyne in 1976, and launched in 1978. As the ship neared the end of its fitting out period, the Falklands War broke out and as a consequence ...

HMS Ocean, Landing Platform Helicopter, which has just received a £65m refit will replace Lusty The Royal Navy's helicopter carrier and Falklands' conflict veteran HMS Illustrious has returned to ...

What You Need to Know: In 2013, during a NATO anti-submarine warfare exercise off Oman, the USS Dallas, a Los Angeles-class ...

HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in the commando carrier role, and the on-call United Kingdom Task Group, which included a COUGAR deployment to the Gulf. He has also had the privilege of being the Captain of Britannia ...