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posted January 01, 2004 05:21 AM
"Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited England"
Prolly has Lucas electrics... 
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Aircraft carrier (deommissioned ) for sale
Vehicle Description
This maybe the first ever aircraft carrier (decommissioned 2001) available for auction at EBAY !
But the auction was delisted not long ago due to accusation wrongly made by a suspicious customer. We showed evidence that this vessel is DECOMMISSIONED and therefore not Ordanance. We are shipbroker and not arms dealer. We shipbrokers do not have the ownership of the vessels we sell, as none of the shipbrokers does, just as your real estate broker cannot ask you to transfer the title of your house to him before he start selling propery for you.
Suggested usage: tourist attraction, ocean-restaurant, museum, amusement park, hotel-on-the-ocean, etc. If you anchor it in the harbor and use it as a tourist attraction during the day, and use it as an ocean-hotel during the night, it will be great ! (it has rooms to accommodate for 1,300 men), and you charge both admission fee and hotel rate. (say you rent the rooms for only $50 dollars. Per person, times 1,300 and only times 300 days a year, then it is $ 15 million dollars already ! In 20 years, that is an amazing $ 300 million dollars. Calculate for yourself. If you want to sell the vessel for demolition in about 20 years, the current price for steel on the demolition market is about 130 US dollars per ton. This vessel weighs about 16,000 tons. So you earn another 2 million dollars ! You do not even bother to count the income from admission fee from tourists or rent to restaurant or amusement park owners. You get the TOTAL investment all covered in the first year. But that is not all, the navigation instruments and satellite guidance system and other great instruments cost hundreds of millions of dollars when they were new. You can easily get a lot of money from selling the instruments. Now for a tiny fraction of the original price (which maybe over $ 5 billion US dollars) you can have this wonderful property all for yourself.
Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited England/1942-1945
Loaned to Australia 1953 to 1955, Sold in 1956, re-fitted 1957 and 1960,
angled deck added, overhauled 1976 and 1980.
Laid-up 1987, Refitted 1991 and 1993, 1997 and 1998.
Decommissioned in November 2001, Sold to Private concerns 2002, sale did not complete.
Length: 693 ft 3 in Overall 630 ft, Waterline 690 ft, Flight deck
Beam: 80 ft 119 ft 6 ft Flight deck
Draught: 23 ft Fore 23 ft 5 ft aft
Catapult: 1 Mactaggart Scott C 3 steam powered 8.5 degree launch
Displacement: Full Load 19,890 Tons, Normal 17,500 tons, Standard 15,890 tons
Engine Type: 2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3 drum boilers
H.P.: 36,000 SHP
Fuel: Oil
Capacity: 3,196 Tons plus 98,000 gallons of Aviation fuel
Endurance: 12,000 Nautical miles @ 14 Knots, 6,200 Nautical Miles @ 25 Knots
Radars: Air search, Lockheed SPS 40B, Surface search Plessey AWS 4 Navigation Signaal ZW 06
Complement: 1300 ( 1000 Navy, 300 Air )
Hanger: 322 ft long by 52 ft Width by 17 ft 6 in height
Generators: 4 Turbo generators and I diesel Generator producing 2500Kw AC.
SHIP IS SOLD " AS IS WHERE IS " BASIS. Inspection before payment is recommended. Payment by bank escrow.
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