[BITList] BBC News - Who, what, why: How do you scrap an aircraft carrier?

[x50type]

Mike

I was aboard "Sir Galahad' when BI was running it and when I worked for 
Noble Denton we were involved in towing "Unites States" to and from Turkey 
.................................!

"After being decommissioned it changed hands multiple times, from the Navy 
and on through a series of restoration-minded investors.

It was towed from Virginia to Turkey to Ukraine, finally arriving in 
Philadelphia as a gutted hulk in 1996. Another succession of developers and 
a cruise lines failed to return the ship to service as retrofitting costs 
proved too great.

A local philanthropist's 11th-hour gift of $5.8 million allowed the SS 
United States Conservancy to save the ship from the scrapper and keep it 
berthed and maintained for 20 months. That was last November."

Colin

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From: "M.j. Feltham" <ismay at mjfeltham.plus.com>
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aircraft carrier?

> Colin,
>
> A few years ago they scrapped 3 RFA ships in a Dry Dock in Liverpool, one 
> of them was the SIR PERCIVALE.  There were no complaints from anyone as 
> far as I know.  The E/R was sealed off and pressurised while they got rid 
> of the Asbestos.  That was that and the Dry Dock hasn't been used since.
>
> Mike
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> On 20 May 2013, at 17:16, x50type <x50type at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Bloody silly question;  How ?  -- same as the thousands of other ships 
>> that
>> have been scrapped over the years.
>>
>> ct
>>
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>> From: "M.j. Feltham" <ismay at mjfeltham.plus.com>
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>> aircraft carrier?
>>
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