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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP20 Jul 2013 11:37 a.m. PST

"Carved open with its structure cut to pieces, it's hard to believe that this is the once mighty Ark Royal.
Especially when the reason it has been torn apart is that workmen begin scrapping it to make tin cans and razor blades.
These exclusive first pictures show how the top half of the former Royal Navy flagship has been carved open by heavy machinery"

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See here
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Amicalement
Armand

vojvoda20 Jul 2013 12:50 p.m. PST

I always fail to see why outdated equipment should be fawned over so much. It is just a can of metal and other hazardous materials.

VR
James Mattes

Major Tom20 Jul 2013 1:14 p.m. PST

Yes, very sad to see her go. The Ark was my first ship and I had a great time onboard. Good memories, good people, hard work and hard play. These old ships are more than just scrap, there's a real emotional link with the people who served and worked on them and with the towns people where they were based.

It marks the end of an era but that's progress. In thirty odd years someone else will be choked to see her replacement going off for scrap.

Greywing20 Jul 2013 2:19 p.m. PST

Yikes.

I had dinner in her wardroom many years ago, when my ship was her "host" during a visit to NORVA. I was impressed.

Both of those ships are gone now.

Most great ships come to sad ends (a fact which makes none of them less sad).

79thPA Supporting Member of TMP20 Jul 2013 3:01 p.m. PST

It is not a piece of equipment; it is a living thing and it has a soul, that's why.

Sergeant Paper20 Jul 2013 9:52 p.m. PST

You might as well say, "I always fail to see why outdated soldiers should be fawned over so much." After all, they're just consumers now, so what good are they?

And that would be just as wrongheaded.

Major Tom21 Jul 2013 1:34 a.m. PST

Here's a couple of links to HMS Vanguard leaving Portsmouth harbour for the scrapyard in the 60's. She broke free of a tug and ran aground at the harbour entrance, just didn't wont to go quietly.

YouTube link

thumbsnap.com/vcgqtn98

John D Salt21 Jul 2013 3:05 a.m. PST

…and of course there was the grandest old lady of them all, HMS Warspite, who, when she was being towed to the breaker's, slipped her tow and ran aground -- on St. George's Day.

All the best,

John.

DsGilbert21 Jul 2013 7:56 a.m. PST

You can't save everything. There seems to be a movement lately to try to save every military piece or historic home. You just can't. She served her time and now she will serve it in other ways. Her name will live on.

coopman21 Jul 2013 9:56 a.m. PST

Most ships end up having a sad ending. That's just the way it's always been.

epturner21 Jul 2013 10:14 a.m. PST

What Sergeant Paper said.

Eric

Hazza31B21 Jul 2013 3:11 p.m. PST

A lot of blood sweat and tears have gone into that metal over the years. I understand the attachment. I cringe at pictures of the tanks I crewed being used as targets because they were replaced.

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