HMS Invincible arrives

[DaveB]

How does this one look? www.directart.co.uk/bmall/images/mpl2923.jpg

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[DarrenL]

That looks better, but I didn't realise they also carried copyright markings as well

[DaveB]

Oh yes.. only generally visible in the tropics

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[John]

Two more warships, are going for scrapping this week :-(

HMS Southampton and HMS Nottingham

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/ ... _1_3143382

Kind regards

John

[DarrenL]

Holy thread resurrection Batman. Thought I'd keep this on the thread where we found old Royal Navy ships that still existed.

I (think) believe 1916 R-Class RN Destroyer HMS Radiant is still afloat in Thailand. It was sold to the Thai Navy in 1920 and renamed Phra Ruang. It was still afloat in 2000 and with nothing I can find to say it was scrapped later must still be.

http://www.navypedia.org/ships/thailand ... _ruang.htm

(Wikipedia says it was scrapped in 1957, a remarkable 2 years before it was taken out of service )



To balance it out they still have a pre-WWII Japanese built sloop/destroyer HMTS Maeklong - http://thaigunship.blogspot.co.uk/2010/ ... klong.html

[DaveB]

Interesting Pity there are no recent shots of Phra Ruang.. even vaguely recent. That ex Jap sloop looks like it's berthed on dry land Gad knows how they managed that but it's a great idea. No need to keep going into dry dock every few years to scrape the nasties off and have the hull repainted

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[John]

I (think) believe 1916 R-Class RN Destroyer HMS Radiant is still afloat in Thailand. It was sold to the Thai Navy in 1920 and renamed Phra Ruang. It was still afloat in 2000 and with nothing I can find to say it was scrapped later must still be.

http://www.navypedia.org/ships/thailand ... _ruang.htm

To balance it out they still have a pre-WWII Japanese built sloop/destroyer HMTS Maeklong - http://thaigunship.blogspot.co.uk/2010/ ... klong.html

Not sure she's still afloat... http://thaigunship.blogspot.co.uk/2010/ ... royer.html

It'd be odd to remove the smoke stack from a floating ship :-(

John

Edit: Although... "A second, HMS Radiant was transferred to the Royal Siamese Navy as Phra Ruang in September 1920 and survives to this day as a hulk."