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23rd Aug 2010, 00:15

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Buster Hyman

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Remember Thatcher was keen to sell HMS Invicible, which as things turned out proved rather handy to the RN !

Lucky the Oz Govt. let you keep it eh?

And that was the end of any carrier aspirations for the RAN...