HMS Implacable (R86)

HMS Implacable
Country	British Empire
Class	Implacable-class
Builder	Fairfield Shipuilding & Engineering Company
Laid Down	February 21st, 1938
Launched	December 10th, 1940
Commissioned	August 28th, 1941
Decommissioned	January 9th, 1947
Motto	"Ventis Secundis "
Status	Decommissioned
Fate	Museum ship in Liverpool

[[Image:|thumb|right|200px|HMS Implacable (R86)]]HMS Implacable (R86) was the first ship of the ten Implacable-class aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.

History

Construction and Commissoning

Implacable was laid down at the Fairfield Shipuilding & Engineering Company in Govan, Scotland on February 21^st, 1938. Implacable was then launched on December 10^th, 1940 and would be commissioned on August 28^th, 1941 with Captain Lachlan Mackintosh in command.

Pacific War

In March 1942, Implacable along with Indefatigable, and Illustrious were assigned to join the British Pacific Fleet arriving after Force Z.

Implacable, along with several other RN carriers, would soon after be involved in bombing the Japanese base on Truk.

In late 1942, Implacable would be involved in the Battle of the Java Sea.

Postwar

After the end of the war, Implacable was decommissioned and placed into reserve in 1947. In 1952, she was brought out of mothballs for modernization. After a three-year overhaul, Implacable was sold to the Royal Indian Navy, where she served as HMIS Vikramaditya from 1955 to 1980. After decommissioning, she was returned to Britain and made into a museum ship in Liverpool in 1983.