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==Ships in class== {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:97%;" |-valign=top ! Name ! [[Pennant number|Pennant]] ! Image ! Builder ! Ordered ! Laid down ! Launched ! Commissioned ! Fate |-valign=top || {{HMS|Invincible|R05|2}} | R05 |[[File:HMS Invincible (R05).jpg|100px]] || [[Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering|Vickers Armstrong, Barrow]].<ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 17 April 1973 <ref name="Moore"/><ref name=Conwaysp501/><ref name=Hansard04Mar77>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1977/mar/04/warships#S5CV0927P0_19770304_CWA_62 Hansard HC Deb 04 March 1977 vol 927 c337W], this lists ''Invincible'' as ordered in financial year 1973–74, the explanation for this is given in the following source:<br>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1977/nov/24/warship-building#S5CV0939P0_19771124_CWA_263 Hansard HC Deb 24 November 1977 vol 939 cc869-70W] Question to the Secretary of State for Defence about contracts, 24 November 1977.<br>For the first ASW Cruiser (HMS ''Invincible'') the planned order date when tender invited was February 1973. The contract was placed in April 1973.</ref> || 20 July 1973 <ref name=Conwaysp501>Gardiner, Robert ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995'', pub Conway Maritime Press, 1995, {{ISBN|0-85177-605-1}} page 501.</ref> || 3 May 1977 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 11 July 1980 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || Broken up at [[Aliağa]], 2011 |-valign=top || {{HMS|Illustrious|R06|2}} || R06 |[[File:HMS Illustrious 1.jpg|100px]] || [[Swan Hunter]], [[Wallsend]]<ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 14 May 1976 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 7 October 1976 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 1 December 1978 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 20 June 1982 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || Broken up at Aliağa, 2017 |-valign=top || {{HMS|Ark Royal|R07|2}}<br>(ex-''Indomitable'') || R07 |[[File:HMS Ark Royal (R07).jpg|100px]] || Swan Hunter, Wallsend <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || December 1978 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 14 December 1978 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 2 June 1981 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || 1 November 1985 <ref name=Conwaysp501/> || Broken up at Aliağa, 2013 |}
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