Aircraft carrier auctioned on web

ian_m

Irish Indo Thursday January 06 2011



Several bids have been received for a Royal Navy aircraft carrier which was put up for sale on a Government version of the eBay auction website, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.

HMS Invincible was decommissioned in 2005, 28 years after it was launched by the Queen.

The Portsmouth-based ship, which served in the Falklands War, was put into a state of "low level of readiness" until last year when it was put on sale through the MoD's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) arm.

The advert on the edisposals.com website, which expired on Wednesday, stated: "HMS Invincible is for sale by tender.

"Laid down in 1973 at Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness, she was completed in 1980. She is currently stable for tow, subject to buyer confirmation."

The carrier, which has had its engines and other parts salvaged, is expected to be sold for scrap metal.

The website states that it has a metal weight of 10,000 tonnes and experts have estimated the ship could sell for about £2 million.

An MoD spokesman said: "We are considering a number of bids but we cannot say any more until there has been a full consideration. We will announce a preferred bidder subject to them meeting required terms and conditions. The ship has been substantially stripped down for spares and has been in storage for some time."

There has been a campaign for the ship to be saved as a museum to shipbuilding in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, where it was built but the MoD spokesman said it was most likely to be sold for scrap.

He said: "It doesn't have any engines so its most likely fate will be recycling, it would be very surprising if that wasn't the case."

Run_to_da_hills

This is something that Michael O'Leary could consider.

moss.ie

jeeez dont be givin him ideas

Plowman

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donkey balls

With the way this country is going it would make for a nice kind of island:p Lenny could f**k off with his property tax,Get yourself a nice PA28 to practice touch&go etc.
Do it up as some kind of hotel and anyone who produces a pilots licence gets a discount on there stay.:D

moss.ie

he'd probably end up falling out with Bord Iascaigh Mhara or greenpeace or someone, make a change from fightin with DAA or aer lingus lol.

can see him trawling fishing nets behind it and tryin to sell the fish to passengers lol

andy_g

moss.ie he'd probably end up falling out with Bord Iascaigh Mhara or greenpeace or someone, make a change from fightin with DAA or aer lingus lol.

can see him trawling fishing nets behind it and tryin to sell the fish to passengers lol

Then ya get Sea shepherd after him :P not likely for much fish in the irish sea apart from prawns and scampy as it has literly been dredged of anything else.

moss.ie

lol can just hear him ringing boeing.

'' hello boeing? this is your favourite customer Michael o'Leary, cmere how ye fixed for fittin i tail hooks to a few auld 737s?''

then hed probly ask Weston to fit a few arrestor cables lol

Steyr

I posted her online tender here a few weeks back, she is only good for being a floating Museum now or scrap metal.

Run_to_da_hills

Plowman wrote: »

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He could try swapping it for Baldonnel.

Fratton Fred

I wonder if she'd fit into Dun Laoghaire? She would make a great no frills ferry.

ednwireland

want

now wheres that euromillion ticket

Run_to_da_hills

It could end up as a floating nightclub venue in China.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345063/After-glory-Falklands-HMS-Invincible-end-days-floating-NIGHTCLUB.html

ian_m

Steyr wrote: »

I posted her online tender here a few weeks back, she is only good for being a floating Museum now or scrap metal.

Missed that Steyr sorry. :cool:

Plowman

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Bluetonic

I was going to bid on this but the post and packaging is a rip off.

Plus I doubt my post man would be too happy.

chicken fingers

Tow it out to a nice shallow spot in a warm sea with line of sight to land in a country with decent fibre.
Ground it with poles etc.
Set it up as an internet hosting service, independent of other countries´laws. Something like sealand in the north sea.

Steyr

ian_m wrote: »

Missed that Steyr sorry. :cool:

No need to apologise in under any circumstances, I was merely passing a comment on the ship herself.