HMS Hermes

Type:
Aircraft Carrier
Class:
Hermes
Builder:
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth &
Company Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Pennant Number:
I-95
Ordered:
July 1917
Launched:
September 11, 1919
Keel Laid:
January 15, 1918
Completed:
February 19, 1924
Fate:
Sunk Apr. 9, 1942 by Japanese carrier based aircraft from Akagi, Hiryu and Soryu.

Location: Indian Ocean, 45 miles northeast of Batticaloa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
(07.50N - 81.49E)

307 crewmen killed, unknown number of survivors.


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Page published Jan. 29, 2007