Goodbye Lusty
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They only got 2 million pounds for her.. Seems a bit cheap!
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Don't underestimate the cost of breaking a ship for scrap. Scrap steel trades at roughly $300 a tonne right now. Lusty was 20,000T ish? Let's say 75% of that was steel. Very crude maths means she's worth about £4.5M. I reckon you could swallow a big chunk of the £2.5M delta in safely and legally taking her apart.
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" I reckon you could swallow a big chunk of the £2.5M delta in safely and legally taking her apart"
which is why she's off to Turkey - not quite as rough as Pakistan for shipbreaking but still I doubt it's UK HSE terms...................................
which is why she's off to Turkey - not quite as rough as Pakistan for shipbreaking but still I doubt it's UK HSE terms...................................
I like to remember what happened HMS Warspite in 1947.
Sent for scrap after over 30 years service and goodness knows how many actions after Jutland, she broke her tow and ran ashore at Prussia Cove on the South Cornwall coast and was broken up where she lay.
The old girl had the last laugh!
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Sent for scrap after over 30 years service and goodness knows how many actions after Jutland, she broke her tow and ran ashore at Prussia Cove on the South Cornwall coast and was broken up where she lay.
The old girl had the last laugh!
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Similar to that OD, they used to do tours until a couple of guides died from breathing in chlorine gas from the batteries.
U-118, a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, 1919
U-118, a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, 1919
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My 2 and a half years onboard HMS Illustrious were really very happy days, way back when in the 1980s. I would still, for all that like to have seen it stripped out here in the UK, then blown to pieces by our own bombs and torpedoes. Would be good practice, good tv-dramatic tv actually. Or sunk as a reef and a safe haven for our own oceanic wildlife, somewhere safe.... or even sunk whole for divers and explorers in the future.
Got to be better than being stripped and flogged in bits by a bunch of greasy Turks. But MOD likes that sort of thing.
Got to be better than being stripped and flogged in bits by a bunch of greasy Turks. But MOD likes that sort of thing.
Leyal have a pretty good record of environmentally recycling ex-RN boats, and it's fully audited in terms of HS/Environmental safety
https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...ship-recycling
The Fearless one outlines the reasons for the Govt strategy
I was surprised to find this line in an official report (The Invincible one)
https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...ship-recycling
The Fearless one outlines the reasons for the Govt strategy
I was surprised to find this line in an official report (The Invincible one)
LEYAL received a great deal of media interest in this vessel as well as enquiries from former sailors who received, with the compliments of the company and in recognition of the strong attachment that Invincible had with those who served on her, a memento in the shape of a small piece of the hull suitably engraved....and who said that scrap dealers were ruthless!!
I like to remember what happened HMS Warspite in 1947.
Probably still in a Cornish garden somewhere!
A lot of info and pictures here
http://www.submerged.co.uk/hms-warspite-3.php
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It was actually covered on TV this week, there is a programme series running at the moment covering shoreline archaeology, this is the one you mean
A monster off the British coast: Rusting hulk of World War One German U-boat that has been marooned by Kent island for almost a century | Daily Mail Online
They incidentally have just rediscovered the one Nessie attacked off Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-37691283
It was actually covered on TV this week, there is a programme series running at the moment covering shoreline archaeology, this is the one you mean
A monster off the British coast: Rusting hulk of World War One German U-boat that has been marooned by Kent island for almost a century | Daily Mail Online
They incidentally have just rediscovered the one Nessie attacked off Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-37691283
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He told me that in the early 50s as a young man he had got a load of teak off Warspite and built himself a garden shed
stripped and flogged in bits by a bunch of greasy Turks.
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stripped and flogged in bits by a bunch of greasy Turks.
Not exactly a shining example of inter country relations there either, you're not Boris J posting under a pseudonym by any chance?