"Portsmouth Harbour: northward to Dockyard, with aircraft-carrier 'HMS Hermes' moored, 1985." View NE from car-ferry on the way to Fishbourne (Isle of Wight). HMS Hermes was commissioned in 1959 and in 1982 was flagship in the Falkland Islands conflict. She was decommissioned in 1984 and eventually sold to the Indian Navy in 1986, becoming their 'Viraat'.