HMS Invincible Departing Portsouth For The Last Time

[Skipness One Echo]

Hi all, does anyone know when beyond "end of March"? Would be keen to take the camera down just to see her go. Plenty of time if she's under tow I guess...

Thanks!

[Not_a_boffin]

Current plan is 08:00Z Thursday depending on weather. Time will be slip from pre-tow berth. She's being moved into C lock today.

[BOAC]

Off to the Med, is she.........?:)

[draken55]

Yes, she is on her way to Turkey:p

To be scapped:sad:

[Rigga]

Scapping...the unkindest Kut of all!

[RetiredSHRigger]

Rigga

Dont mok the aflikted;)

[draken55]

My aplogies:eek:

[NutLoose]

There is BTW a rather good looking oil painting of her on a well known auction site by a Captain Rodger Roland Sutton Fisher C.B.E., D.S.C., R.N., R.S.M.A., F.R.S.A. ( 1919-1993) of the Invincible.

Scapping


Please Gentlemen, it is well known the Navy save up all of their R's for Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Jim Lad.....

I'll get my coat :ooh:

[Navaleye]

Will be interesting to see if she makes it after 6 years in 3 basin. Am in Gib till Friday and Gib Sqn plan to pay a tribute as she passes through the Straits. 29 years after the Falklands.

[Not_a_boffin]

On MSJ now, last chance to get a shot of her and the Ark together...

[draken55]

Posting a few pics from my collection on Thursday to mark the passing of a ship that served her Country so well in both war and peace:D

Keep an eye on this thread.

[minigundiplomat]

Can some naval type PM me when Ocean sets sail for the last time. I wouldnt want to miss that party.

[Double Zero]

" Captain, we've just received orders to return to port for decomissioning "---

Ist Officer; " if I were human, Captain, my response might be...'Go To Hell' - if I were human...

[draken55]

Farewell Invincible and thank you:D

Warship HMS Invincible leaves Portsmouth for the final time - East Hampshire - The News (http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-hampshire/warship_hms_invincible_leaves_portsmouth_for_the_final_time_ 1_2529762)

[Wyler]

Had a very rewarding 2 weeks on her in the early 80s. A major exercise followed by 3 days in Copenhagen. Almost wished I had joined the Navy......almost.

[airsound]

Wonderful pix, draken, thanks. The last one caused a little beery tear to course its way down the seamed old cheek.....

And I'm a crab (well, ex)

Thanks,
airsound

[Navaleye]

I along with many others helped Invincible store for war in Aoril 82. Sad to see her go. Hail andfarewell.

[Roadster280]

Navaleye - that must have been a very interesting time. Was there a plan for the war stores, ie a proper war scaling, or was it a case of "well we're supposed to take 5 Pegasus engines, but let's make that 10, just in case".

I can only imagine the amount of beer that got loaded on all the ships!

[Navaleye]

Didn't have much to do with the aviation side. We were shifting dry stores, mostly bog roll and beans!

[PPRuNe Pop]

Draken55

Please re-size your pics to no more than 850x850. Thanks.

[draken55]

Pop

My apologies. Should I delete, resize and re-post or just delete after a day as I was intending to do?

[Chris Scott]

We'd rather you didn't, draken55. Either way... thanks.

[PPRuNe Pop]

No problems, a re-size would be good. Thanks.

[draken55]

POP

Images deleted. I will re-size and re-post in due course.

Apologies again for the error.

[Double Zero]

Didn't have much to do with the aviation side. We were shifting dry stores, mostly bog roll and beans!

Well, according to some froggy upstart 'an army marches on its' stomach' :it seems the Admiralty are content to drag their arses !

[bakseetblatherer]

Bye bye 'vince. Another old ship bites the dust, well I remember (well I don't) tumbling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. I awake to such lovely naval-isms as 'one hand for the ship, one hand for yourself'... couldn't you have told me that before I fell down the bloody stairs! (WAFU so they are stairs not gangplanks or ladders of companionways or whatever ;))

[Double Zero]

Invincible deserves a salute in the form of a flypast.

No Sea Harrier in the Historic Flight ? Can't be the Admiralty embarassed about stupid decisions while sitting on fat pensions, surely ?

[Navaleye]

Did anyone else spot what appears to be a gash in her hull starboard side, near the waterline. Check the picture in the Daily Mail

[Navaleye]

For those that did not read Jeremy Black's memoirs in his book "There and back"

He recounts one episode when his ops team called "Torpedo in the water". The contact was confirmed, Invincible went to to full speed to stern the target and evade. 820 Sqn was launched to prosecute the datum. No Result. Make your own minds up.

Navaleye.

[IB4138]

HMS Invincible is presently just off Sohail Castle, Fuengirola, moving very slowly down the Med.

Have been watching her progress for the last hour or more. Beautiful clear day.

[NutLoose]

You get any pictures :(

[IB4138]

Sorry, no.

Don't have a lens with enough strength on my camera.

[Flying Lawyer]

A couple of pictures sent to be by a friend who served in HMS Invincible
and went to see her leaving Portsmouth for the last time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/Invincible1.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/Invincible2.jpg





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