Wow.HMS Ark Royal, once the bullish symbol of Britain’s defence diplomacy, will follow the ignominious fate of her sister ship HMS Invincible by ending life as a razor blades.There had been strong indications that she would sold to a British diving company and sunk off the Devon coast to become a major scuba diving attraction.An estimated bid of £6.5 million was submitted to purchase the ship that as a diving reef could have contributed up to £30 million to the local economy
Just fucking wow.
Read the entire article but the other options were for the ship to be turned into a casino in China, a museum, a London heliport or a NIGHT CLUB!
The UK really should look at this piece of its history and go.."Thats a symbol of our Country. We need to preserve it." What a waste
ReplyDeletehuge waste.
ReplyDeletei dont mean this as disrespect to the ship and i think it deserves its rightful place as a museum, even better a museum of the falkland war as a way of remember those who died in it, but if they want to get rid of it why not use it as a live fire target? we use that all the time, do we ever scrap ships ourselves (sans the stealth boat we just scrapped and sold), it seems to me this ship would be a great target for their new destroyers coming out as a live fire target to test their surface combat elements.
ReplyDeleteSelling the carrier as a hotel to China? I remember what the chinese did last time they bought an carrier to be converted into a hotel...
ReplyDeleteIf I win the mega millions this week, it's going to be a yacht.
ReplyDeleteA very, very special yacht.
How about the US buy it for the Marines? The Marines already have its Harriers, don't they?
ReplyDeletenot for the Marines but SOCOM should be all over it!
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