Quite by accident we saw the
Ark Royal leaving Portsmouth
Originally due to be retired in
2016, Ark Royal was instead decommissioned on Friday 11 March 2011 , as
part of the Navy restructuring portion of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security
Review
A Ministry
of Defence spokesperson
stated “All options are being considered
in terms of what happens to the Ark
Royal after it is
decommissioned. We might also look at scrapping it, selling it, recycling it, moor
her as a hotel, casino, museum
ship or visitor attraction at the Royal Docks, moor her as a floating helipad in London', turn Ark Royal into a hospital ship , also the possibility of scuttling Ark Royal off the Devonshire coast as an artificial reef was considered.”
On 28 March
2011 the Ministry of Defence placed the decommissioned Ark Royal up
for sale by auction, The announcement was made that the ship had been sold to
Leyal Ship Recycling for scrapping. On Monday 20 May 2013 the Ark Royal was
towed out of Portsmouth for the final time, where it will be towed to Leyal
Ship Recycling in Turkey
1 comment:
an absolute disgrace Glyn is what I think about the MoD.
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