"HMS Illustrious decommissioned in Portsmouth" Topic

"The aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious stood down today after thirty-two years as a flagship in the Royal Navy.

The Portsmouth-based helicopter and commando carrier has clocked up nine hundred thousand miles on operations across the world. HMS Illustrious, based in Portsmsouth, was built on the Tyne and launched by Princess Margaret in December 1978…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Nice video study of a fine ship. She served her country well.

Glad you enjoyed the video my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

I remember her 'fitting out' in the Tyne during the Falklands War. I was a cop working the south side of the river and we were tasked with doing regular 'security' checks along our side of the river re a possible sabotage threat. One evening I came across a man with no ID docs taking pictures of the ship, and duly asked him to 'accompany me to the station'. He did, and we eventually established that he was the official photographer from Swan-Hunter shipyard, who had arranged to take some night photographs of the ship illuminated from the interior. He was very good about it, and the result was he provided me with some rather nice black and white pics of Tyne built warships (HMS Kelly, HMS Ocean and some others) from the archives.