The Last Farewell 🙁
The below photograph’s were taken from a helicopter off Mauritius on the 25th of March 2004.
http://www.hms.vengeance.btinternet.co.uk/farewell.htm
Minas Gerais, her final journey on tow to India to be broken up.
The rust now showing, as she ends her 60 years of service with three Navies. (Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and Brazilian Navy)
A section of the bridge has already been removed from the ship along with part of the flight deck at Alang shipyard, Gujarat, Southern India.
***PS Please click on link to see the pictures – linking is forbidden by the site owner.
By: Ja Worsley - 31st July 2004 at 01:54
Man those are some sad pics there, especially that last one, reminds me of what happened to USS Cabot/ SNS Dedalo.
I remember that group that wanted to save her for a museum, they approached Australian’s (especially ex-navy people) to chip in to buy her. They just couldn’t get enough money nor could they get a place to keep her, the British government said no to basing her in the UK. Australian government said they didn’t have a place to put her but offered to sink her for a dive wreck.
India out bid China (which I found interesting) and we all know why China wanted her 😉
By: Arabella-Cox - 30th July 2004 at 03:18
To bad….I heard that several groups were bidding on her! One in the UK that want to make her a museum? Must have fell thru………………
By: Indian1973 - 29th July 2004 at 04:29
Sad. Alang was a real hell-hole with zero supervision of safety and pollution. Some efforts are underway to shakedown and regularize that unruly place.
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July 28, 2004 at 6:17 pm