HMS Pinafore plies the boards for a final time at the local opera house.
Posted on 07/22/2014 12:04:45 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
What great Assets.
Not sure why Lusty gets to be retained as a museum, other than being the last of the three sisters to leave service. Invincible (now scrapped) was class leader and the Falklands vet, Ark Royal (also scrapped) served in more conflicts and will probably be the last carrier to bear the RN’s most storied carrier name.
Heck, if any existing RN carrier deserves to be sitting in Portsmouth complementing Victory and Warrior as representative ships of their respective ages it’s Hermes.
Brit girls. Just so long as they don’t turn around and smile ...
still looks like it could be useful.
Mermaids have always attracted sailors!
Looks are deceiving. 32 years of salt water on pipes, valves, and boilers take their toll.
No boilers, she uses Olympus gas turbines, the maritime version of the engines that powered the Concorde.
No boilers to make fresh water?
The waste heat from the gas turbines would be excellent for heating sea water for making fresh water.
Those look a lot better than the usual pudgy, chain smoking English chicks.......
HMS Pinafore plies the boards for a final time at the local opera house.
YEAH BABY!
Uh-oh! He referred to that ship as ‘she’! Isn’t that sexist?! ;-)
I’d like to see the girl in white turn around.
They’ve certainly taken their toll on me.
Like all gas turbine ships they have a desalinization system to make fresh water. Most ships today use a reverse osmosis purification plant. I imagine Illustrious does too.
The Indians have Hermes at the moment (INS Viraat). It is due to be decommissioned in 2017, it remains to be seen what will happen to her after that...
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