Oldest aircraft carrier in service

According to Official Guinness Records,

In 1959 the UK’s Royal Navy commissioned the HMS Hermes, a Centaur class aircraft carrier. Fully loaded she displaces 28,700 tonnes and measures 226.5 m long with a beam of 48.78 m, and has a maximum speed of 28 knots (52 km/h). She served as the UK’s taskforce flagship during the conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982. Sold to the Indian Navy in 1986, she currently serves as India’s flagship and has been renamed INS Viraat.

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