D20 HMS Fife, Summer of 1965, with Carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Bulwark and HMS Hermes. Taken between 1966 and ’68, HMS Fife sits alongside in the foreground, HMS Leviathan in the basin, HMS Centaur at the dockside and, in the distance, HMS Victorious at the wharf. As is usual for the period, what appears as grandeur tells a saddening tale. For a start, the brilliantly named HMS Leviathan was launched in 1945 and never completed. HMS Centaur was already decommissioned and the same may also be said of HMS Victorious, being decommissioned in March of ‘68. By 1973 nothing remained of the three carriers and no replacements followed.