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Mike
Reminds me of HMS Victorious she was in dry dock for seven years some 
did their entire apprenticeship on her, we took 3 decks off and replaced 
them with 4 new ones plus the first angled flight deck along with new 
engines and boilers, but the modifications where coming faster than we 
could install them which meant that after about 5 mods the whole lot 
would be ripped out and the process started again in the end a new 
captain of the dockyard arrived who had been there 8 years previously 
and on finding that Victorious was still being refitted ordered her out 
finished or not finished, which meant that we had the most up to-date 
obsolete carrier in the world at that time The caissons by this time 
where under 24 hour surveillance they were leaking so bad and in danger 
of collapse
frank

On 11/17/2012 7:37 AM, M.j. Feltham wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/15/astute-hunter-killer-submarines-doomed?intcmp=239
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