Tango01 | 20 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"
See here link Amicalement Armand |
vojvoda | 20 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I always fail to see why outdated equipment should be fawned over so much.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 Tom | 20 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. |
Greywing | 20 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 | 20 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 Paper | 20 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You might as well say, "I always fail to see why outdated soldiers should be fawned over so much."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 Tom | 21 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 Salt | 21 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. |
DsGilbert | 21 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. |
coopman | 21 Jul 2013 9:56 a.m. PST |
Most ships end up having a sad ending. That's just the way it's always been. |
epturner | 21 Jul 2013 10:14 a.m. PST |
What Sergeant Paper said. Eric |
Hazza31B | 21 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. |