HMS Illustrious R-06

Type:
Aircraft Carrier
Class:
Builder:
Swan Hunter Ltd.
Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England

Pennant Number:
R-06
Ordered:
May 14, 1976
Launched:
December 14, 1978
Keel Laid:
October 7, 1976
Commissioned:


June 20, 1982
Fate:
Scrapped in Turkey 2016-17.


Builder's Data
Page published Jan. 29, 2007