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HMS Invincible (R05)
Invincible-class light aircraft carrier
of the Royal Navy
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| Light aircraft carrier |
| Class: Invincible-class |
| Ordered: 17 April 1973 |
| Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding Limited |
| Laid down: July, 1973 |
| Launched: 3 May 1977 |
| Commissioned: 11 July 1980 |
| Decommissioned: 19,500 tons full load |
| Complement: 1100 (including air group) |
Displacement: 16,970 tons standard,
20,710 tons loaded |
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| Length: 689 ft (210 m) |
| Beam: 118.1 ft (36.0 m) |
| Draft: 28.9 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion: 4 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines providing 97,000 hp (75 MW)
8 Paxman Valenta diesel generators. |
| Speed: 30 knots |
| Range: 5,000 nmiles at 18 knots ; 3,000 tons fuel oil |
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Armament: 3 × Goalkeeper CIWS
2 × GAM-B01 20 mm close-range guns |
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Electronic warfare
and decoys:
Thales jamming system and ECM system, Seagnat launchers provide for chaff or flare decoys
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| Fate: Decommissions 3 August 2005, and will remain available to the Navy until 2010. |
| Homeport: Portsmouth |
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| Aircrafts carried |
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A mix (depending on role) of
Harrier GR7 and GR9s
Sea King AEW and Sea King and
Chinook stores or
Troop-carrying helicopters and
Merlin anti-submarine helicopters.
The carriers also provide a operational headquarters for the RN task force. The runway is 170 m long and includes the characteristic "ski jump" (initially 7° it was later increased to 12°).
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| History |
The sixth and current HMS Invincible (R05) is a light aircraft carrier, the lead ship of three in her class.
She was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering. She was laid down in 1973, and launched on 3 May 1977. The ship commissioned on July 11 1980, and joined the older carriers Hermes and Bulwark
in service.
On 25 February 1982 the Australian government announced that it had agreed to purchase HMS Invincible after several months of negotiations. The sale was confirmed by the Ministry of Defence.
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On 2 April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. On 5 April 1982 a naval task force headed by Invincible and Hermes left Portsmouth bound for the South Atlantic.
On 20 April 1982 the British War Cabinet ordered the repossession of the Falkland Islands.
On 1 June, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser advised the British Government that the sale of Invincible to Australia could be cancelled if desired. I
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In July 1982 the British Ministry of Defence announced that it had withdrawn its offer to sell Invincible and that it would maintain a three-carrier force.
The UK formally declared an end to hostilities on 20 June 1982. In July 1982 the British Ministry of Defence announced that it had withdrawn its offer to sell Invincible and that it would maintain a three-carrier force.
Although Argentina claims to have damaged this ship during the Falklands War,this is officially denied by the British Government. |
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| In December 1983 Australia refused the use of dry dock facilities in Sydney for Invincible during the Orient Express group deployment when the Royal Navy declined to say whether the ship was carrying nuclear weapons. Invincible was accompanied by a number of other ships, including HMS Achilles, during this deployment. |
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From 1993 to 1995, Invincible was deployed in the Adriatic for Operation Deny Flight over Yugoslavia and contributed to Operation Deliberate Force which concluded the deployment.
In 1998 and 1999, she contributed to Operation Bolton in Southern Iraq along with air forces from Saudi Arabia, the United States and (in 1998) France.
Also in 1999, she was deployed once more the Balkans to assist action against Yugoslavia. Her Harriers were involved in military strikes while her helicopters aided refugees.
After 3 commissions Invincible was decommissioned from her third in August 2005, as her period of operational tasking ended. This is part of a long-standing plan that will see the oldest CVS held at a low level of readiness. This process is often mistaken for being withdrawn from service but we are still very much "part of the fleet". In fact Invincible will remain available to the Navy until 2010. This again forms part of a long-term plan to assist with the introduction of the new CVF Aircraft Carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince Of Wales |
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