HMS Victorious (R38) refuels from RFA Wave Baron (A242) and RFA Lyness (A339) off Malta in June 1967. The RN carrier had been due to go home to Portsmouth after a tour in the Far East but was held at Malta due to the Arab/Israeli Six-Day War.
HMS Eagle entering Portsmouth for the last time on January 26, 1972. She’s flying the flag of Flag Officer Carriers and Amphibious Ships and a 450-foot-long paying-off pennant. A single Buccaneer from 800 NAS sits on the flight deck.
Indian Ocean (Feb. 24, 2004) Photographers Mate Airman Rex Nelson from Taunton, Mass., watches an F-14B Tomcat assigned to Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7) launch off the flight deck aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73).
R08 HMS Bulwark. not the best of pictures but they show HMS Bulwark leaving Portsmouth for the last time (10th April 1984) outbound for Scotland and scrapping. Dont be fooled by the choppers on deck, they were on the USS Saipan berthed behind her.
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