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HMS Hermes (United Kingdom)
Name	Hermes
Namesake	Greek god, Hermes
Ordered	February 1914
Laid down	29th October 1914
Commissioned	12th January 1916
Fate	Sunk by USS South Carolina in the Battle for the North Atlantic, November 1921
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Aircraft carrier
Displacement	11,200 long tons (11,400 t) (standard) 14,200 long tons (14,400 t) (deep load)
Length	620 ft (189.0 m)
Beam	74 ft 3 in (22.6 m)
Draught	24 ft 6 in (7.5 m) (deep load)
Installed power	6 water-tube boilers 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbine sets
Speed	25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range	5,600 nmi (10,400 km; 6,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	566 (excluding aircrew)
Armament	3 × single 5.5 in (140 mm) guns 4 × single 4 in (102 mm) AA guns
Armour	Belt: 4 in (102 mm) Deck: 0.5 in (13 mm)
Aircraft carried	24

HMS Hermes was an early “flat deck” aircraft carrier, the first to commissioned as an aircraft carrying vessel. It maintained the largest air wing for a ship in the world, until the refit and conversion of German pre-dreadnought SMS Preussen, which held 28 aircraft during normal operation. Hermes was involved in many major actions of the war, and was eventually sunk in the decisive “Battle for the Atlantic”, by the USS South Carolina.

HMS Hermes was initially part of the Grand Fleet once commissioned, and therefore took part in the Battle of Jersey, where a French task-force led by Courbet and Paris was defeated during their bombardment of British fortifications on the Channel Islands. HMS Hermes