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HMS Invincible R05 (wallpaper 1). HMS Invincible R05 ship images wallpaper gallery 1. HMS Invincible R05 ship pictures and images collection 1. Aircraft Carrier Ship. HMS Invincible (R05) was a British light aircraft carrier, the lead ship of three in her class in the Royal Navy. She was launched on 3 May 1977 and is the seventh ship to carry the name. She saw action in the Falklands war when she was deployed with HMS Hermes, she took over as Flagship of the British Fleet when Hermes was sold to India. HMS Invincible was also deployed in Yugoslavia and Iraq. She was decommissioned in 2005. In February 2011 she was sold to Turkish Leyal Ship Recycling. Invincible was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering. She was laid down in 1973 and launched on 3 May 1977. On 11 July 1980 she was commissioned and joined the fleet's other carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Bulwark in service. The HMS Invincible class of aircraft carriers were designed to replace the early post-war aircraft carriers that were HMS Ark Royal and HMS Hermes. They have had a troubled life, with the government threatening to sell off two of the three carriers before they had even been commissioned. HMS Invincible R05 (wallpaper 1). HMS Invincible R05 ship images wallpaper gallery 1. HMS Invincible R05 ship pictures and images collection 1. As the carriers were coming into service during the early eighties (HMS Invincible, the first of class, saw action in the Falklands) there were worries about whether Britain would be able to continue its role as a balanced Navy, rather than the ASW wing of NATO. The Invincible design was described as a through deck cruiser in a bid to disguise the fact from the government that it was actually an aircraft carrier, as the Labour government was withdrawing the nation’s last big conventional carriers. The through deck cruisers were designed for that great British invention, the vertical take-off Harrier jump jets. The main machinery of the new HMS Invincible was different to conventional carriers. She had no main boilers or steam turbines but was driven by Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines, which were a variant of those used by beautiful Concorde supersonic airliners. The completion of Invincible involved installing one million components served by 1,000 kilometres of cables and 100 kilometres of pipes. The number of people working on the build in Barrow peaked at 3,500 during the fitting out in Buccleuch Dock, but a total of 35,000 people were involved in sub contractor roles around the country. During its build, the shipyard workforce was around 14,000 compared with 5,000 today. Invincible was the largest warship to be built for the Royal Navy since the 1950s. But it was later superseded by the slightly larger HMS Ocean, a VSEL ship but one which had its hull built at Govan, and was fitted out, named and commissioned in Barrow where, like Invincible, it became a landmark. HMS Invincible R05 (wallpaper 1). HMS Invincible R05 ship images wallpaper gallery 1. HMS Invincible R05 ship pictures and images collection 1.