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Thursday, May 30, 1968 @ 1500
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only 		H.M.S. CENTAUR (1953-1971 Hermes-class Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier 738 feet long of Royal Navy, London : Scrapped 1972) Own Page

Police investigate theft of money from Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. CENTAUR
Ship's locationRoyal Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England, U.K.Port of RegistryAdmiralty, London

   Officers from the Ministry of Defence Police and the Hampshire Police are investigating the theft of £2,600 in money from a safe on board the Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. CENTAUR which is berthed in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.

   The money is believed to be the pay for the ship’s complement of 1,390 men.

   The ship, a Fleet Aircraft Carrier, had been paid off from active service in December 1965 and had been used as an accommodation ship at Devonport, and is now based at Portsmouth to accommodate the crew of another aircraft carrier, H.M.S. VICTORIOUS, which is also in Portsmouth Dockyard.