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| 1943-oct-12 | Laid down | | Yard No 61 | |
| 1945-sep-22 | Launched | | on Tyneside but work completed at Harland & Wolff, Belfast | |
| 1957-jan | Fate: transfered | | sold to India, having never served | |
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| 1957-mar | Refit | | at Harland and Wolff, Belfast, until 1961 | |
| 1961-mar-4 | Commissioned | | into Indian Navy, in UK | |
| 1961-nov-3 | Homeport | | arrived in Mumbai Harbour | |
| 1965 | Refit | | | |
| 1971 | Deployment | | served during Indo-Pakistan war | |
| 1979-jan | Refit | | Service Life Extension Programme at Mumbai, completed Jan 1982, included Ski-Jump for Sea Harrier operations. | |
| 1982-dec | Refit | | modification to enable Sea Harrier operations, completed Feb 1983 | |
| 1997-jan-31 | Decommissioned | | | |
| 2000 | Fate: museum | | in Mumbai Harbour until 2004 | |
| 2014-nov | Fate: scrapped | | at Powder Bunder, SE Mumbai | |
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Royal Navy - R49 HMS Hercules 
