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 ...
I don’t think I’d sell my pickup before the replacement had been built. What’s different on a national scale?
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.
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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)
LOL...can’t argue with you there!
Why wouldn't they put it in mothballs to save cost and keep it on the roster in case of future need instead?
That’s a great memory. Thanks.
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.
Oh. Well then, I guess I didn't recall correctly.
The sun is setting on Britain.
The Germans couldnt beat them but Political Correctness and the Muslims will.
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Recall the old saying that the tradition of the British Navy was “rum, sodomy and the lash” and who needs a ship?
Glad you enjoyed it...interesting thread, in light of the rhetoric coming up from Argentina on a thread started today...
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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