New Aircraft Tug for the Sea Fury

Yes it is…

I still can’t believe they scrapped my aircraft carrier 🙁

Hey, maybe I could make a carrier deck in the hanger. You know, like they did at Yeovilton! OK, who has a friend in the stage construction and props business. 🙂

Dang. I need to get out and about more often. Where is that hangar? Looks like the one I saw at Johnson County Executive back when they had the Eagly Optica demonstrator there.

Only £3m too !

http://www.hms.vengeance.btinternet.co.uk/farewell.htm

Hey is this Ferret located in KC?

Yes it is…

I still can’t believe they scrapped my aircraft carrier 🙁

Hey, maybe I could make a carrier deck in the hanger. You know, like they did at Yeovilton! OK, who has a friend in the stage construction and props business. 🙂

Hey is this Ferret located in KC?

JDK – Afraid your out of date ! Vengeance is virtually no more having been
taken to India in the summer for scrapping.

Tsk, and I’d almost scraped the cash together! (I knew actually – don’t destroy Steve’s dream)

JDK – Afraid your out of date ! Vengeance is virtually no more having been
taken to India in the summer for scrapping. There are pictures online of her
been broken up but that just tends to prolong the agony!

Robbo, A nice lady in nurses uniform would look good then I wouldn’t mind a bit of ferreting around.

A 4 ton Ferret

You wouldn’t want one of those down the front of your trousers 😮

Geoff.

Don’t go giving him ideas, James.

Where’s that ‘injured innocence’ emoticon when you need it?

I was wondering how Moggy got the money for his new toy (the Ducati)

Your wish…

from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/10/webay10.xml

“For internet sale: aircraft carrier, only three owners
By Neil Tweedie
(Filed: 10/01/2004)

For the man who has (almost) everything it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Tired of corporate jets, ocean-going yachts and seafront properties in Barbados? Then what about your very own aircraft carrier?

Ship of dreams: the ultimate toy
Habitués of the internet auction site Ebay were taken aback over the New Year by the offer for sale of the vessel formerly known as HMS Vengeance. The 16,000-ton carrier, which has had only three careful owners, was placed on the website by an unknown broker just after Christmas.

Bidding was brisk as boys in search of the ultimate toy let their imaginations soar. The prospect of being able to intimidate small island nations proved too much for some, and offers – not necessarily realistic ones – quickly reached £4 million.

“I want this for Christmas,” drooled one eager prospective buyer.

Under the headline “British aircraft carrier for sale on Ebay (for real)”, the brokers promised “we are a shipbroker, not an arms dealer” before explaining how the ship was a must-have, the ultimate sea-going statement.

It could, they said, be put to less violent use as an offshore tourist attraction or hotel complete with large flightdeck for easy access by helicopter. Then some spoilsport suggested that Vengeance might be classed as “ordnance”, making it illegal for Ebay to sell it.

Whatever the reason, the vessel disappeared suddenly from the site.

Vengeance, a light fleet carrier of the Colossus class, was launched in 1944 and entered service with the Royal Navy just in time for the end of the Second World War.

The British sold off surplus carriers after the war, and Vengeance was loaned to the Australians. In the mid-Fifties it was bought by the Brazilians and renamed Minas Gerais. It was decommissioned in 2001 and is now berthed in Rio de Janeiro awaiting sale.

Naval enthusiasts in Britain are hoping to preserve the ship as an attraction, but a less dignified fate, including use as a theme park or scrapping, appears more likely.

The owner, whose identity is being kept secret, is understood to be seeking somewhere in the region of £3 million for the ship, which boasts modern satellite communications equipment – but no aircraft, missiles or bombs.” (Bring yr. own aircraft Steve…)

A 4 ton Ferret Armoured Scout Car!
Steve

Oooh – A Ferret Scout car with a funny turret.

I still have the scars! 🙂

Mark

~rummages under desk~
I’m sure there was an aircraft carrier for sale not that long ago…

It’s all your fault, James.

Indeed. I feel it is one of my biggest achievements, given the value of ‘all’. 😀

here you go

😀 Martin

It’s all your fault, James. If you hadn’t taken me to Abingdon I would have never known what a Ferret was (outside of the furry little creature).

It’s really rather fun, and surprise, I’m the only kid on my block with one. The John Deere garden tractor just didn’t look right, sitting next to the Sea Fury.

Now, if I could just find an aircraft carrier…

I would drive many miles in such a nice thing to get milk. 😉

J.V.

So how many miles do you get per gallon of milk?