The Probert Encyclopaedia of Ships

HERMES

HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier of 10950 tons displacement of the Second World War, launched in 1919 and completed in 1923. HMS Hermes carried a complement of 664 and twenty sea or aeroplanes. She had a top speed of 25 knots and was armed with six 5.5 inch guns; three 4-inch anti-aircraft guns and twenty-six smaller guns. HMS Hermes was sunk during action with Japanese aircraft south of Trincomali on April the 9th 1942.
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