UK aircraft carrier Ark Royal for sale on Internet

[onedef92]

UK aircraft carrier Ark Royal for sale on Internet

Posted: Mar 28, 2011 9:49 AM EDT
Updated: Mar 28, 2011 12:10 PM EDT

LONDON - For sale: one aircraft carrier, slightly used.

Britain put the mothballed carrier Ark Royal up for sale Monday on a military auction website.

The former flagship of the Royal Navy was decommissioned this month, four years ahead of schedule, as part of defense spending cuts. Bidders have until June 13 to make an offer. No minimum price was set.

The government sold another carrier, HMS Invincible, which was bought for its metal and towed to a Turkish scrap yard.

The Ark Royal could be sold for scrap, but there has also been a proposal to park it on the Thames river as a heliport.

Britain is reducing the army by 7,000 soldiers and slashing billions from its defense budget as part of deficit-reducing cuts.

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Online: www.edisposals.com

[navyndi2]

Utah should by it for a pleasure yacht :yesnod:
:cheers:

[onedef92]

Gregore will be right on that.

[Poog]

I remember visiting that ship once many moons ago.

[Sea Six]

I'd like to buy it, anchor it on the continental shelf a few miles off of Florida, and create my own sovereign nation.

Complete with its own Air Force. :flag:





And, I suppose, its own Navy, too. :patriot:

[Poog]

I'd like to buy it, anchor it on the continental shelf a few miles off of Florida, and create my own sovereign nation.

Complete with its own Air Force. :flag:

I have a feeling the requisite Harriers are on sale too...

[MattW]

Is this going to leave them with ANY carriers?

(search... search... ping!)

One... a ski-ramp ship, the HMS Illustrious. Huh.

They're apparently building two new "supercarriers" but they won't be ready until 2020(?). This will leave a big gap.

"Until delivery of the Joint Combat Aircraft (F-35) and the Queen Elizabeth class carriers Britain will have no carrier strike capability." - Wikipedia, "Future of the Royal Navy"

The USA is still almost unimaginably dominant in the power-projection Navy business.