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Sorta Off Topic - Aircraft Carrier 4 Sale

Posted by B Darnell on Fri May 30, 2003 09:24:42 AM

HMS Vengance for sale:
From ANN:

NOTHING Succeeds Like Excess: Want To Buy An Aircraft Carrier? Australian Broker Offering Decommissioned Aircraft Carrier For Sale
by ANN Reporter Juan Jimenez

French Creek Boat Sales Ltd. is offering something you don't see every day
in the boat sales industry -- an aircraft carrier. That's right, a
full-blown carrier, the HMS Vengeance, built back in the early 1940's and
last refitted in 1998 before being decommissioned in 2001.
The price?

If you have to ask, I guess I will have to tell you -- a cool $4.95 million
US dollars. Just think of all the airshows in coastal locations that you
could visit with 12,000 NM range at 14 kts!

The specs:
1) Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited England/1942-1945
2) Loaned to Australia 1953 ? 1955 Sold to Brazil 1956, re-fitted 1957 ?
1960 in Rotterdam Holland, angled deck added, overhauled 1976 ?1980
3) Laid-up 1987, Refitted 1991 ? 1993, Refitted 1997 ? 1998
4) De-Commissioned November 2001, Sold to Private concerns 2002, Sale did
not complete.
5) Length: 693? 3? Overall 630? Waterline 690? Flight deck
6) Beam: 80? 119? 6? Flight deck
7) Draught: 23? Fore 23? 5? aft
8) Catapult: 1 Mactaggart Scott C ? 3 steam powered 8.5 degree launch
9) Displacement: Full Load 19,890 Tons, Normal 17,500 tons, Standard 15,890
tons
10) Engine Type: 2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3 drum
boilers, H.P.: 36,000 SHP
11) Fuel: Oil
12) Capacity: 3,196 Tons plus 98,000 gallons of Aviation fuel
13) Endurance: 12,000 Nautical miles @ 14 Knots, 6,200 Nautical Miles @ 25
Knots
14) Radars: Air search, Lockheed SPS 40B, Surface search Plessey AWS 4
Navigation Signaal ZW 06
15) Complement: 1300 (1000 Navy, 300 Air)
16) Hanger: 322? long by 52? Width by 17? 6? height
17) Generators: 4 Turbo generators and I diesel Generator producing 2500Kw
AC.
FMI: www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12

For the WHOLE story, go to http://www.aero-news.net/news/military.cfm?ContentBlockID=9920

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