HMS Hermes (95)
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HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's Hōshō was the first to be
Hermes off Yantai, China, circa 1931
HMS Hermes at Honolulu, 1924
Hermes in 1938
Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting a convoy in June 1940
Indian Ocean raid
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The Indian Ocean raid was a sortie of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 31 March to 10 April 1942. Japanese aircraft carriers struck Allied shipping, naval bases and airfields around British Ceylon but
HMS Hermes (95)
…between November 1941 and February 1942 and then joined the Eastern Fleet at Ceylon. Hermes was berthed in Trincomalee on 8 April when a warning of an Indian Ocean raid by the Japanese fleet was received, and she sailed that day for the Maldives with no aircraft on board. On 9 April a Japanese scout plane spotted her…
British heavy cruisers HMS Dorsetshire and Cornwall under Japanese air attack and severely damaged on 5 April 1942.
Example of a Watanabe E9W1 seaplane, similar to that carried by I-7
The Southern Force heading for the Indian Ocean on 30 March. Left to right, Akagi, Sōryū, Hiryū, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna and Kongō, photographed from Zuikaku
HMS Cornwall burning and sinking on 5 April 1942