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Final farewell for decommissioned warship HMS Ark Royal
BBC ^ | Mar 11, 2011 | BBC

Posted on 03/13/2011 11:49:58 AM PDT by I still care

The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal has been decommissioned at a ceremony in its home base of Portsmouth.

The warship was scrapped after 25 years' service as part of the government's defence budget review.

The move leaves the Navy without the capability of launching fixed-wing aircraft until replacements come into service at the end of the decade.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: carrier; greatbritain; navair; navy
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To: I still care

I don’t think I’d sell my pickup before the replacement had been built. What’s different on a national scale?


21 posted on 03/13/2011 1:12:53 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (An election is not a (national) suicide pact.)
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To: headstamp 2
25 years? I would think that is nothing in the way of a life cycle of a Navy ship.

Actually it's less than that. The Brits had three carriers and only kept two in commission at any one time. So the Ark Royal spent about 8 of those 25 years laid up or in overhaul.

22 posted on 03/13/2011 1:16:33 PM PDT by K-Stater
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To: I still care
Maybe...maybe...just freeballin' it here, but maybe they wanted to disconnect any history or semblance of what used to be with the new Spirit of the UK...the HMS Mohammhead......
23 posted on 03/13/2011 1:18:29 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: magslinger

ping


24 posted on 03/13/2011 1:25:50 PM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: rlmorel

Darned Good Post! BUMP!


25 posted on 03/13/2011 1:26:53 PM PDT by golux
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To: rlmorel
Yes it was a silly movie. I agree about the scenes.

I hate movies that not only put your brain on hold, but attack every bit of common sense and logic.

Where did this storm come from? Where did the second storm come from? Why has no one ever seen one of these storms before or since> Why was only this one ship affected?

Don't worry, its just a movie. Yeah, lets throw away basic laws of nature out the window, and make a giant WHAT IF movie, about a Nimitz class carrier going back to WWII. I guess it was ok when I was IN HIGH SCHOOL, and didn't care much about reality, just cool stuff (Hey, much like liberals, who cares about reality, just give us cool stuff)

26 posted on 03/13/2011 1:30:57 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: mountn man

LOL...can’t argue with you there!


27 posted on 03/13/2011 1:35:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (How to relate to Liberals? Take a Conservative, remove all responsibility...logic...)
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To: SeeSharp
This decision was forced on them by their economic circumstances

Why wouldn't they put it in mothballs to save cost and keep it on the roster in case of future need instead?

28 posted on 03/13/2011 1:54:25 PM PDT by SteamShovel ("Does the noise in my head bother you?")
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To: rlmorel

That’s a great memory. Thanks.


29 posted on 03/13/2011 2:13:23 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: mountn man
Don't worry, its just a movie.

No, it was a book by William Shirer I read in high school. So I wrote, IIRC, which means, "if I recall correctly," which meant that I was not certain. What is certain is that instead of offering a polite correction, you proved yourself an a$$hole. Congratulations.

30 posted on 03/13/2011 2:13:50 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: Rinnwald
Yes, that was two Ark Royals ago.

Oh. Well then, I guess I didn't recall correctly.

31 posted on 03/13/2011 2:15:16 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: bunkerhill7

The sun is setting on Britain.

The Germans couldnt beat them but Political Correctness and the Muslims will.


32 posted on 03/13/2011 2:19:45 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; investigateworld; lowbuck; ...
SONOBUOY PING!

Click on pic for past Navair pings.

Post or FReepmail me if you wish to be enlisted in or discharged from the Navair Pinglist.
The only requirement for inclusion in the Navair Pinglist is an interest in Naval Aviation.
This is a medium to low volume pinglist.

33 posted on 03/13/2011 2:20:01 PM PDT by magslinger (What Would Stephen Decatur Do?)
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To: I still care

Recall the old saying that the tradition of the British Navy was “rum, sodomy and the lash” and who needs a ship?


34 posted on 03/13/2011 2:31:25 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: I still care

Glad you enjoyed it...interesting thread, in light of the rhetoric coming up from Argentina on a thread started today...


35 posted on 03/13/2011 3:25:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (How to relate to Liberals? Take a Conservative, remove all responsibility...logic...)
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To: golux
The Royal Navy
Ashore it's wine, women, and song.
Once at sea, it's Rum, Bum, and Concertina.

Men, remember that on a well run ship of her majesty's navy, a good bosun's mate and a good quartermaster go hand in hand
However Queens Regulations forbid that on shore.
Is that rust on your hawsepipe, Mr. Golux?
Perhaps we should send a ship's boy 'round, eh wot?

BTW, why are they scrapping this handy vesel? Why can't they mothball it? Only 25 years old?

36 posted on 03/13/2011 3:59:26 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Odd, but I never had to ask, "Who, or what exactly is Dwight Eisenhower?")
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To: Carry_Okie
Whoa...take a deep breath. I wasn't trying to attack you or correct you of anything. Sorry if it came across that way.

I haven't read the book.

My point was, that in the movie they left too many questions unanswered, and the movie became nothing but a movie of watching cool planes fly around, but little substance of a story. I found the movie interesting when I was in HS, but saw it a number of years ago, now older, and found the movie lacking. I think the writing for the movie could have been much better.

The only depth of the story was at the end, when the person left back in time, met the ship at the dock 40 years later.

Sorry if I came across negatively. That was not my intention at all.

37 posted on 03/13/2011 4:20:21 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Carry_Okie
I just went back and read your post that I made the comment about. And think there was a misunderstanding. I was making a smarta$$ comment about the Arc Royal and the Swordfish.

Yes-they were Swordfish biplanes that torpedoed the Bizmarck sent by the Arc Royal. (Actually, I think I read the exact same book on the Bizmarck in HS, 30+ years ago. Still remember some parts, where they were talking about the divers going down trying to free the rudder.)

My comment that I made to you, was about a movie around 1980, called the Final Conflict. In it the US Nimitz is transported back in time to just before the Japanese strike Pearl Harbor.

My comment was a sarcasm, that instead of the Nimitz, it was the Arc Royal, as it was the Arc Royal that attacked the Biz, and this article is about the modern day Arc Royal. The movie was terribly written, and was only good for watching cool planes to fly around.

Another reader caught on to the movie I was trying to allude to.

Sorry once again. I meant no disrespect.

38 posted on 03/13/2011 4:35:43 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: GeronL
They have all those public employees and welfare cases to support, the military just has to go.

The Left has been working on that project for 65 years, since the days of Clement Atlee in government and Kim Philby in the traitor ranks.

39 posted on 03/13/2011 5:38:40 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: mountn man
My comment that I made to you, was about a movie around 1980, called the Final Conflict. In it the US Nimitz is transported back in time to just before the Japanese strike Pearl Harbor.

Final Countdown.

It's out on DVD - the two-disc set is really cool because they have interviews with the Tomcat pilots that flew the dogfight scenes and they have a LOT of hilarious anecdotes about the movie.
40 posted on 03/13/2011 5:56:43 PM PDT by tanknetter
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