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The MoD had promised the last Invincible class carrier would be preserved. But no workable charity or commercial offer came in and scrapping her is now inevitable.
http://www.dailymail.co....r-heading-junkyard.html
Doubt this would be allowed to happen in the USA, though will be interesting to see what happens with the Enterprise, which is still a commissioned US Navy ship, though is currently inactive and undergoing a four-year inactivation process to render her unfit for further military service.
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Very sad news, I guess it's down to the extortionate cost of "Health & Safety" these days. In the old days they would have just opened her up to the public as is. Cant have visitors bumping their heads or snagging their clothes on something sharp can we! Maybe Chris Evans will buy it and convert it into house so he can live in the middle of the Atlantic, after Sunday's Top Gear performance :-) Steve
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But the Health and Safety cost would be met by its new owner rather than the MoD.
Hull is in currently talks for the city to become the base for a new northern branch of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, and therefore its failed bid to berth Lusty next door to The Deep, to become a permanent floating museum tourist attraction, seems questionable as to why they have not been given it.
Instead, Hull has now focused its efforts on creating a £17m cruise terminal at Victora Dock as part of a long-term plan to establish Hull as a “world-class visitor destination”.
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We have the same down here in Plymouth - our wonderful City Council is now planning an ocean liner terminal to make Plymouth a tourist destination (as it was before the war) but they wouldn't lift a finger or spend a single penny to bring HMS Plymouth back to be a museum exhibit. The last British warship to take the surrender of an enemy power on board is now a pile of worthless scrap in Turkey! Robin First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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