"Do not insult the French Navy or the mighty warship Clemenceau, m'sieur, or you may suffer the consequences and become the target of a well-thrown bucket of rusty metal chips!."
I've seen 30 year old tramp steamers with less rust. How could the French neglect a main line ship like that.
It had been decommissioned by then, but I've seen pics of it with aircraft still aboard with the ship sporting the "secret French Navy brown camoflage."
When the French tried to move the *Clambucket* to India for scrapping, Egypt refused passage through the Suez Canal on grounds that the ship was a hazard to navigation, [dripping asbestos insulation] which, being a nuclear-powered boat, makes the deteriorated condition even more deplorable.