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HMS Bulwark

Commando Ship 1960-1976.
Painting by Keith Shackleton RSMA, SWLA
The sixth HMS Bulwark of the Royal Navy was a 22,000 tonne Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier. Initially commissioned as a light aircraft carrier in 1954, the ship was converted into a commando carrier in 1958 and recommissioned as such in 1960. Bulwark remained in this capacity until 1979 when following failed efforts to sell the ship, Bulwark re-entered service as an anti-submarine warfare carrier and remained as such until being decomissioned in 1981. The ship was scrapped in 1984.
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United Kingdom

Name: HMS Bulwark
Ordered: 17 April 1943
Builder: Harland & Wolff
Laid down: 10 May 1945
Launched: 22 June 1948
Commissioned: 4 November 1954
Decommissioned: April 1981
In service:
  • 1954–1958
  • 1960–1969
  • 1970 – April 1981
Homeport: HMNB Portsmouth
Identification: Pennant number: R08
Motto: "Under thy wings I will trust"
Nickname(s): The Rusty B
Honours and
awards: Operation Musketeer
Fate: Scrapped

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bulwark_(R08)
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