and the old, sold-for-scrap aircraft carrier Clemenceau is still waiting is demise, off shore India alang’s scrapyard…
My question : how the US Navy scrap is old aircraft carriers? Please tell us!! we don’t know what to do with our 30,000 tons of (corrugated) steel… :p :p
anyone want a 265m aircraft carrier?
This story became more ridiculous every day… please stop that!!
Fortunately, the Foch was sold to Brazil…
:diablo: :confused: 😮 🙁 😡
By: WisePanda - 16th February 2006 at 08:02
Bager, keep your clemenceau at home. the shipyard workers have enough work breaking the worlds ships in Alang and they are dying not due to starvation but accidents & pollution. Alang beaches and sea are a environmental disaster zone.
the whole business there needs to be cleaned up and regularized. but unfortunately lot of vested interests want it as cheap as possible. construction industry lifts a lot of steel rods from the melted scrap steel in small smelters there. foreign shipowners and govts want someplace out of range to dump their crap. and the local “leaders” are ofcourse in bed with the scrapyard owners.
By: Bager1968 - 16th February 2006 at 05:26
Of course, this is such a “victory for the scrapyard workers” (according to Greenpeace)… now they can have nice, clean lungs as they and their families slowly starve to death because they now have no job!!!
By: sekant - 15th February 2006 at 15:47
What about scuttling it in Mururoa ?!? I would not expect too many people to want to bath or dive there anyway !!!!!!!
By: Arabella-Cox - 15th February 2006 at 15:43
What now? Sinkex?
By: Merlock - 15th February 2006 at 15:35
Such a grotesque farce could not end another way! Pfah!! What shame!!! I hope next time we will dismantle our ships ourselves!! 😡
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By: Arabella-Cox - 15th February 2006 at 15:17
She is going home…
By: Archibaald - 13th February 2006 at 19:24
Terran, the old cruiser “Colbert” is in Bordeaux; he has been converted to a museum ten years ago, but this is near bankrupcy today…
I think it will be sold for scrap.
I thought, too of the museum idea but I think the ship is too big or complicated…and you need a 300m dock to put it. anyone has other idea?
By: Entropy - 13th February 2006 at 19:05
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/383891/france_ready_to_take_back_waste_of_toxic_ship/
here is some more…
By: Super Nimrod - 13th February 2006 at 19:02
Didn’t the USA use the America for controlled target practice over a period of a couple of weeks, to see how it coped with damage, before finally sinking her ?
Latest re the Clemenceau
By: Arabella-Cox - 13th February 2006 at 18:50
I would have liked to see her as a museum ship somewhere in France, but that train left a long time ago.
By: Archibaald - 13th February 2006 at 18:45
So if anyone have an idea I suggest to put it HERE http://www.defense.gouv.fr/sites/marine/
thanks everybody…
By: Archibaald - 13th February 2006 at 18:42
I suggest : put it in the middle of the ocean, and use it as target.
Imagine the advert : “You are angry at france. You want to shoot a french boat? The old battle flag of french navy, the aircraft carrier Clemenceaun is waiting for your missiles!!!
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