[headdie]

Some pretty spectacular images here
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/fotoweb/Grid.fwx

[Colonol Dekker]

Bit of a random topic. . But I approve highly.
Two pics dear to my heart are here and here. No reason other than I've done the same countless times. Even the Fallout looking one with a jerry can. Every Squaddie knows how to make **** tea lol.

[Darius]

Those first few images made me think of this story Sad end for such a proud ship.

[NGTM-1R]

Those first few images made me think of this story Sad end for such a proud ship.

The RN never really recovered from letting Beattie get off for screwing the pooch at Jutland.

[StarSlayer]

I don't understand why you folks never museum your warships.  The States has a fleet of museums from age of sail to aircraft carriers.  I mean ****, you didn't even preserve the HMS Dreadnought.   

[T-LoW]

The USS Hornet is a museum ship and it was pretty cool being there during my trip to the westcoast

[Dilmah G]

Those first few images made me think of this story Sad end for such a proud ship.

I know. What a ****ing disgrace. Whichever wanker approved it should be shot several times and dragged underneath the keel of that vessel until the Royal Navy places its entire ORBAT as a bid for the item.

[The E]

wat. 

A decommissioned ship needs to be disposed off. In the absence of plans to keep it around as a museum, selling for scrap is a valid option. No "disgrace" about it.

[Dilmah G]

But what if Kim Jong-Il buys it?!

[StarSlayer]

But what if Kim Jong-Il buys it?!

With what? His film collection?

[Pred the Penguin]

I don't understand why you folks never museum your warships.  The States has a fleet of museums from age of sail to aircraft carriers.  I mean ****, you didn't even preserve the HMS Dreadnought.   

Maybe they could use the money?

[Kolgena]

Then there's this.

http://jalopnik.com/5702122/want-to-buy-an-aircraft-carrier

[Darius]

It's a shame they're scrapping these carriers which have been far more useful than the Trident program, and still had a few years left in them until the QE carriers arrived (from how I see it all the way in Australia anyway).

[headdie]

It's a shame they're scrapping these carriers which have been far more useful than the Trident program, and still had a few years left in them until the QE carriers arrived (from how I see it all the way in Australia anyway).

The rate things are going we will be lucky to get QEs before the next decade

[Kosh]

wat. 

A decommissioned ship needs to be disposed off. In the absence of plans to keep it around as a museum, selling for scrap is a valid option. No "disgrace" about it.

In most cases that is true, but the Dreadnaught was special because it single handedly started a major historical trend in ship design.

[newman]

I don't understand why you folks never museum your warships.  The States has a fleet of museums from age of sail to aircraft carriers.  I mean ****, you didn't even preserve the HMS Dreadnought.   

I agree. Though the US screwed up by scrapping the CV-6 big E.. which got as close to possible to match the term "hero ship".