| Name: | ARK ROYAL |
| Type: | Aircraft Carrier |
| Keel: | 14/12/1978 |
| Launched: | 02/06/1981 |
| Completed: | 01/11/1985 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 109 |
| Dimensions: | 22000disp, 210.0 x 36.0 x 7.5(draft)metres |
| Engines: | 4 x Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 97000hp |
| Engines by: | Rolls Royce |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0+knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x Mark 15 Phalanx guns, 22 x aircraft (Sea Harrier and/or Sea King) |
| History: | |
| 01/11/1985 | British Royal Navy |
| 11/03/2011 | Decommissioned |
| Comments: | Originally to be named INDOMITABLE, of the INVINCIBLE Class |
| Ordered as a through deck cruiser & reclassified as an aircraft carrier in 1980s | |
| Allocated pennant R07 | |
| 21/05/2013: Left Portsmouth under tow for breaking up at Aliaga |
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