HMS Vengeance

[Garry Russell]

Google Earth shows an aircraft carriere at Alang in India about to be broken up

It appears to be the one time HMS Vengeance.....a ship with a history

Copy and paste into Google earth Search bar

21 22 46.38N 72 10 37.93E

Efforts to save it were made but appear to have failed

http://www.hms-glory-assoc.org.uk/h_m_s__vengeance.htm

Maybe completely gone now :-(


Garry

[Chris Sykes]

it says in the google dot info that she was broken up between 04 and 05...

[Paul K]

For the Google Earth-less... ;-)








They could indeed be old photographs as Google Earth doesn't update everywhere in real time. In fact, they are still showing my ex-neighbour's red Range Rover, and he got rid of that ages ago. No wonder they couldn't find the WMDs in Iraq. :roll:

[Quixoticish]

They could indeed be old photographs as Google Earth doesn't update everywhere in real time. In fact, they are still showing my ex-neighbour's red Range Rover, and he got rid of that ages ago. No wonder they couldn't find the WMDs in Iraq. :roll:

Because they used Google Earth and its out of date photographs to try and find the WMD's obviously. :roll:

[DaveB]

I fear there's a lot less of her now as that Google Earth shot shows she still has the bridge and fwd section intact where one of the shots on that site shows her beached with said bits missing. I always wonder how it can be commercially viable to tow a hulk halfway around the world to be cut for scrap

Interesting on that site the comment about her being rusty when even new ships rust. Salt water has that effect on metal :roll:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Google Earth is always behind..until recently Hurn was still full of One-Elevens on Google Earth

The pic is obviously old as The SS Norway/France does not appear but it is still a glimpse of an old British relic even if, as I mentioned it is probably completley gone now.

Garry

[Garry Russell]

Hi Dave

Yes they rust on the builders slip

As to the econmics I think it's two things.....laboour coast and the fact the enviornmentalists would not allow ships sitting on beaches like that being cut up in the west.........add H & S and it would never happen.

Garry

[Paul K]

They could indeed be old photographs as Google Earth doesn't update everywhere in real time. In fact, they are still showing my ex-neighbour's red Range Rover, and he got rid of that ages ago. No wonder they couldn't find the WMDs in Iraq. :roll:

Because they used Google Earth and its out of date photographs to try and find the WMD's obviously. :roll:

Well they lifted the 'dodgy dossier' straight off the net ( grammar and spelling errors included ) so it wouldn't surprise me. ;-)

[DaveB]

Yup Garry.. I suppose you're right. Vengeance must have had more than a modicum of asbestos lagging for one thing.. something folk try to avoid handling these days! :o As for H&S.. I doubt that applies in India

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[SkippyBing]

To think if I'd known I could have had got a mortgage and brought myself a light carrier as a gin palace/place of abode/bigger than my boss has boat type arrangement. Berthing fees might have been a stretch though...