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Great conclusion Engines. Trouble is, just what made you thing the GR3 had been declared in this role or that a GR3 had ever been launched from a ship?
Best I can recall is that a single development Harrier GR1 took part in a ship trial, pre-ski jump, as part of the nascent SHAR programme in the early '70s.
There were early trials on Eagle and Ark Royal, with development aircraft and GR1s (If I recall, No 1 took aircraft onto Ark Royal as a squadron) and later there were a couple of trials on Hermes, on e in 1977 involving both single and twin seat aircraft (A DB aircraft, a GR3, a T4 and G-VTOL embarked).