Iron, the world's oldest serving aircraft carrier and Britain's flagship flag-vessel during the Falkland War in 1982, can be used to make motorbikes. The company, which bought the aircraft carrier in the auction, has informed about it on Tuesday.

Shriram Group said that it bought this huge aircraft carrier at auction and it would take a year to completely break it down into small pieces. Shriram Group has the largest scrapyard in Asia, located in Alang, Gujarat.

This aircraft carrier knocked in the Royal Navy of Britain in the year 1959 and was named as 'HMS Hermes'. The foundation of this aircraft carrier was laid in 1944. It was sold to the Indian Navy in 1986 and renamed as 'INS Virat'. It served the Navy for 29 years.

Virat in Sanskrit means 'huge'. INS Virat was retired in 2017. During its 29 years of service, it covered a distance of more than 10 million kilometers (7,00,000 mi), which is equivalent to orbiting the Earth 28 times.

In 1987, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, along with his family and friends, used the ship to holiday on a remote tropical island in the Arabian Sea.

In 2017, the ship was given a farewell ceremony and it was decided that the ship would be converted into a temporary museum and hotel, but it did not succeed. At the same time, now its iron will be used in other works.

Shriram Group Chairman Mukesh Patel said, "Once the ship reaches Alang, it will take us 9-12 months to break it to pieces and then we will sell it as iron to recover the cost from it." "We have been approached by two motorcycle manufacturers to manufacture a bike using warship iron, but nothing has been decided yet," he said.