HMS Illustrious (R87)

HMS Ilustrious
Country	British Empire
Class	Illustrious I-class
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd
Laid Down	May 13th 1936
Launched	April 21st, 1938
Commissioned	May 25th, 1939
Decommissioned	December 3rd, 1954
Motto	"Vox non Incerta"
Status	Decommissioned
Fate	Scrapped in 1958

HMS Illustrious (R87) was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. She was the fourth ship to bear the name Illustrious and was succeeded postwar by a pair of nuclear powered supercarriers.