HMS Hermes

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There have been three ships in the Royal Navy that have borne the name HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology.

The first Hermes was a converted cruiser that was used as an experimental seaplane tender by the Royal Naval Air Service shortly before the First World War. She was sunk by a German U-boat in 1914.

The second Hermes was the first purpose built fleet aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, built just after the First World War.

The third Hermes (R12) was the last of the postwar conventional aircraft carriers commissioned into the Royal Navy (1959), later serving in the Falklands War, then sold to the Indian Navy and recommissioned as INS Viraat.

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