Nick Johns Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Get your bids in for Ark Royal http://www.edisposals.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/Disposals-Public-Site/en_US/-/GBP/ViewProductDetail-Start;pgid=MieqQ4wkQg8000ArvQ_8K1sp0000X22WalAF?ProductUUID=eIDAqBIQIhQAAAEupZZcNt5o&CatalogCategoryID=VaLAqBELPagAAAED8GeasfoP&JumpTo=OfferList Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Suprised Pounds havent gone for this for cutting up for scrap!...............:undecided: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 How about a forum bid - a quid each and tell the Gov't agency we'll let them buy her back at full market value as soon as they realize the clanger they dropped.. :-D :-D :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m109a3uk Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Joking aside they could leave this parked up where it is now and add it to the portsmouth Experience along with Victory, Mary Rose etc. I would pay to visit it a great Icon and such a waste:cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afvnut75 Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 How about a forum bid - a quid each and tell the Gov't agency we'll let them buy her back at full market value as soon as they realize the clanger they dropped.. :-D :-D :-D What a great idea we could lease it to them on contract and they pay a set price for hiring her out what about the harriers havent seen em up for sale as yet ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Or it could be turned into a Floating Nightclub, complete with Disco's Gambling Casino's & the Sick Bay could be used by Drug Addicts to Shoot up in. & the Pimped Up Ferret with Glitzy Ball & Flashing Lights could Drive up & down the Top Deck!.......:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Or it could be turned into a Floating Nightclub, complete with Disco's Gambling Casino's & the Sick Bay could be used by Drug Addicts to Shoot up in. & the Pimped Up Ferret with Glitzy Ball & Flashing Lights could Drive up & down the Top Deck!.......:cool2: Just keep taking your tablets. :n00b: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Just keep taking your tablets. :n00b: Sorry Tony, I was on Smack when I wrote that!..........(Only Kidding!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 i will placing in my offer , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Drake Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 What a shame it couldn't have been given to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, as a floating exhibit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berna2vm Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 I think we should all club together ,buy her and use her as a floating garage for our toys..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Or it could be turned into a Floating Nightclub, complete with Disco's Gambling Casino's & the Sick Bay could be used by Drug Addicts to Shoot up in. & the Pimped Up Ferret with Glitzy Ball & Flashing Lights could Drive up & down the Top Deck!.......:cool2: As long as the pimped up Ferret drives off the end of the 'ski jump' I'm fine with it. Can we cast the druggies adrift as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 If you do win the bid for Ark Royal, here is a suitable signalling lamp....Bargain at £2100?? http://www.thexmod.com/item_detail.asp?id=8384 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim gray Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Looks like they are aiming off for the scrap man as they have the details of steel content etc. Similar scenario to some comments on other parts of the forum, at the moment she is a surplus to requirements item.............if she lies in a creek for the next 30 years she may accrue some "historical" interest and be worthy of preservation. :cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longshaor Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Hi All, I don't mean this to sound in any way disrespectful, it's a genuine question I have... OK, the UK is an island, a maritime nation if ever there was one, and you guys don't have a single preserved battleship or aircraft carrier??? Here in the States we've got 8 battleships (7 open as museums, 1 in MARAD Cat. B Reserve) and at least 5 carriers I can think of open as museums with talk about either Kennedy or Enterprise becoming ones in the not so distant future. I just don't understand... Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirhc Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 We do have preserved ships such as HMS Victory, HMS Belfast etc. A aircraft carrier takes up a lot of space, and we haven't got as much as you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 We do have preserved ships such as HMS Victory, HMS Belfast etc. A aircraft carrier takes up a lot of space, and we haven't got as much as you! Nor the will to preserve, maintain and spend money on anything at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike65 Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 We do have preserved ships such as HMS Victory, HMS Belfast etc. A aircraft carrier takes up a lot of space, and we haven't got as much as you! As such they are much easier store spread around the country as cooking utensils:-D Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longshaor Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 As such they are much easier store spread around the country as cooking utensils:-D As a former naval architecture/marine engineering major as well as a former docent on the USS New Jersey, that thought just makes me cringe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 We couldn't even preserve a single one of our Battleships, even one of the Queen Elizabeths! Well, at least afloat, there's still the Prince of Wales & Repulse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Don't forget HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow HMS Vanguard should have been preserved. HMS Ark Royal will go the same way as its sister ship and the previous incarnation as a proper Aircraft carrier. I can not see a UK company winning the contract to scrap her too politically sensitive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longshaor Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I just see that as a shame. It's one thing to read about a ship, look at photos, or even models. It's a whole diferent thing to be able to walk the deck. And it's a great thing that you guys preserved Victory, that would have been a national disgrace to break up. As an aside, any chance Prince of Wales will get a name change to Ark Royal before completion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 The WW2 carrier HMS Vengance was cut up in 2009 despite being in excellent condition on release from the Brazilian Navy. What a crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim gray Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 In the paper this weekend that Gibralter is looking to put a bid in for her to be moored up out thier as a tourist come historical exibit. They are very keen with a view to the linkage with the ww2 ark lying in waters not too far distant. Good luck to them and if anybody is looking at this from HMG give the ark to them at a reduced price you miseries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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