Sister ship HMS Invincible was also sold for scrap last year to a Turkish scrap metal firm. The Ark Royal - which was in service for 25 years - was put up for sale on the Ministry of Defence's ...

Sharon Germy, 32, said she had mixed emotions about seeing her husband, Simon, a petty officer on the ship, leave for the Gulf. She said she first found out about him being posted on Ark Royal ...