Template:Ship box HMS Invincible (R05)

Invincible

[edit] HMS Invincible (R05)

• Builders:  United Kingdom (Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness)
• Laid down: 20 July 1973
• Launched: 8 May 1977 (List)
• Operator:  Royal Navy
• Commissioned: 11 July 1980 (List)
• Decommissioned: 3 August 2005 (List)
• Status: Mothballed (reserve)
• Modifications: Lengthened flight deck, removal of Sea Dart SAM, addition of 3 Goal Keeper CIWS
• Operations: Falklands War, Operation Deny Flight, Operation Deliberate Force, Operation Bolton, Operation Allied Force
• Victories: 21 Argentine aircraft during Falklands War.