A heads up for anyone in the Portsmouth or surrounding areas tomorrow.
The Ark will be towed out of Portsmouth Harbour at approximately 1300 to that great scrap yard in the sky
I know all ships have a shelf life, but surely this demise is a bit premature??
As i can`t make it tomorrow, i popped done to have a final look, she has been moved from the basin to Victory jetty awaiting her final tow.
Good bye Ark.

H, long time no see Hows the Cerb?
As you know i spent a few years on carriers (Hermes/Illustrious) before "boats"
She is off to Turkey i believe, the same destination as the Invincible , sold for £3m a waste.

Cerbs still in the garage, been there for 18 months! Just don't seem to have the time nowadays, promised myself I'd get it up this year. You still running the Tam?
£3m seems cheap for the amount of steel in it.

What's Alan driving these days?

Gutted I missed that - I didn't hear about it until last night! Too late by then, but what a sad day.

i expect it's due to issues with disposing of all the toxic materials. There was a lot of problems when the former French Carrier went to Hartlepool for scrapping a few years ago.

well that answers some of that guys, thanks.


phew!

Money, probably.

Our dock workers priced themselves out of anything competitively tendered about 60 years ago.

Given that RN Capital Ships have a bit of a track record for not giving in without a fight when being towed to the knacker's yard, they clearly weren't taking any chances.

Losing Ark is enough of a tragedy without taking the Still And West with her as well.



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