Sold for SCRAP: Britain's last working aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious - the final surviving warship from the Falklands War - is heading for the junkyard

The aircraft carrier, centre, was decommissioned in 2014, bottom right, and is now set to be sent to Turkey and be scrapped following sister ships HMS Ark Royal, bottom left, and HMS Invincible.

At least three proposals to preserve HMS Illustrious, pictured in Portsmouth top right, for alternative uses have failed due to her size and the cost of maintenance.

It is thought the ship, which was rushed in to service for the Falklands War, top left, and went on to sail 900,000 miles around the world on deployments, will be sold before the autumn.

She was involved in the Bosnian, Iraq and Sierra Leone conflicts and also helped to evacuate Brits during the Lebanon war in 2006.

More recently she was involved in efforts to distribute relief in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013.

source:dailymail