Taken during the 1980,s at Garden Island Naval Base.
Builder: Vickers Shipbuilding Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England
Laid down: July 1973
Launched: 3 May 1977
Commissioned: 11 July 1980
Decommissioned: 3 August 2005
Fate Scrapped

Displacement: 22,000 tonnes
Length: 209 m (686 ft)
Beam: 36 m (118 ft)
Draught: 8 m (26 ft)
Propulsion:
4 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines
8 × Paxman Valenta diesel generators
100,000 shp (75 MW)
2 shafts
Speed:
28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) maximum
18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) cruising
Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at cruising speed
Troops: Up to 500 Marines
Complement: 650 ships company, 350 air crew
Armament:
2 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
3 Phalanx/Goalkeeper close-in weapons systems
Aircraft carried:
Until December 2010, 22 aircraft;
Multi Mission - Strike, ASuW and ASW
12 x Harrier GR.7/9
10 x Sea King ASaC and Merlin HM Mk.1 helicopters
Multi Mission - Strike and ASUW
18 x Harrier GR.7/9
4 x Sea King ASaC and Merlin HM Mk.1 helicopters