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HMS Invincible Departing Portsouth For The Last Time

Old 24th Mar 2011, 16:57
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My apologies. Should I delete, resize and re-post or just delete after a day as I was intending to do?
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Old 24th Mar 2011, 23:39
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We'd rather you didn't, draken55. Either way... thanks.
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Old 25th Mar 2011, 06:09
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No problems, a re-size would be good. Thanks.
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Old 26th Mar 2011, 07:22
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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 !
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Old 26th Mar 2011, 07:28
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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 )
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Old 26th Mar 2011, 07:41
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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 ?
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Old 26th Mar 2011, 08:34
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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
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Old 27th Mar 2011, 00:32
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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.

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Old 27th Mar 2011, 13:04
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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.
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Old 27th Mar 2011, 13:37
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You get any pictures
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Old 27th Mar 2011, 13:53
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Sorry, no.

Don't have a lens with enough strength on my camera.
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Old 27th Mar 2011, 20:05
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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.








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