There's a scene in the retrospective, "last" Sailor episode, "Eight Years
On," where Tom Wilkinson comes to see the last bits of Ark's lower hull
drawn up in the mud at the scrap yard and bursts into tears. "The poor old
booger didn't deserve that."
> True.
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> I'm of two minds about that. While it's not fun to watch the great ladies
> raped and dismembered like that, at least you get to bear witness to the
> fact that they existed and spend some time with them in their last days,
> and that's something.
>
>> Having relatives in Scotland, I was often on the ferries from Northern
>> Ireland to Cairnryan. It was heart-breaking to see first Eagle, then Ark
>> Royal being whittled down to nothing over the course of many trips.
>>
>> Eamon
>>
>>
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From: Richard Perks
Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012, 4:40
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Sailor - OFF Topic
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>>
>> ÃÂ
>> Dave
>> ÃÂ
>> Yes, the decommissioning of the ark brough tears to
>> several peoples eyes mine included.
>> ÃÂ
>> You know that rod stewart released the "I am
>> sailing" as a single back in the days of vinyl.
>> ÃÂ
>> The latest ark has just been sold for scrap,
>> leaving illustrious as our last carrier (even though it doesn't have any
>> harriers) and it just a helicopter carrier.
>> ÃÂ
>> Hopefully the recession will be over by the time
>> the QE and POW launch and we get to keep both. UK defence spending has
>> dropped
>> below 2% of budget - lowest since just before WWII, so it should be
>> going
>> back
>> up by then.
>> ÃÂ
>> I think they were looking at french fighters if the
>> JSF is late / scrapped.
>> ÃÂ
>> Richard
>> 7. Making a TV show of her last days.
>>>
>>>A
>> real shame about Ark, Eagle, and Vic back in the late 60s. Back in
>> late
>>>high school/early college Jane's still kept track of ships retained
>> in
>>>decommissioned status (now they just say, "discarded" as a catch-all
>> for
>>>decommissioned, struck, scrapped, which is annoying), and I'd always
>> check
>>>the latest edition to see if Ark and Eagle were still being retained
>> in
>>>"ordinary," or for parts, and it always made me feel a little better
>> to
>>>see their names were still there.
>>>
>>
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On," where Tom Wilkinson comes to see the last bits of Ark's lower hull
drawn up in the mud at the scrap yard and bursts into tears. "The poor old
booger didn't deserve that."
> True.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 23:13
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Sailor - OFF Topic
>
>
> Â
> I'm of two minds about that. While it's not fun to watch the great ladies
> raped and dismembered like that, at least you get to bear witness to the
> fact that they existed and spend some time with them in their last days,
> and that's something.
>
>> Having relatives in Scotland, I was often on the ferries from Northern
>> Ireland to Cairnryan. It was heart-breaking to see first Eagle, then Ark
>> Royal being whittled down to nothing over the course of many trips.
>>
>> Eamon
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
From: Richard Perks
Sent: Monday, 10 September 2012, 4:40
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Sailor - OFF Topic
>>
>>
>> ÃÂ
>> Dave
>> ÃÂ
>> Yes, the decommissioning of the ark brough tears to
>> several peoples eyes mine included.
>> ÃÂ
>> You know that rod stewart released the "I am
>> sailing" as a single back in the days of vinyl.
>> ÃÂ
>> The latest ark has just been sold for scrap,
>> leaving illustrious as our last carrier (even though it doesn't have any
>> harriers) and it just a helicopter carrier.
>> ÃÂ
>> Hopefully the recession will be over by the time
>> the QE and POW launch and we get to keep both. UK defence spending has
>> dropped
>> below 2% of budget - lowest since just before WWII, so it should be
>> going
>> back
>> up by then.
>> ÃÂ
>> I think they were looking at french fighters if the
>> JSF is late / scrapped.
>> ÃÂ
>> Richard
>> 7. Making a TV show of her last days.
>>>
>>>A
>> real shame about Ark, Eagle, and Vic back in the late 60s. Back in
>> late
>>>high school/early college Jane's still kept track of ships retained
>> in
>>>decommissioned status (now they just say, "discarded" as a catch-all
>> for
>>>decommissioned, struck, scrapped, which is annoying), and I'd always
>> check
>>>the latest edition to see if Ark and Eagle were still being retained
>> in
>>>"ordinary," or for parts, and it always made me feel a little better
>> to
>>>see their names were still there.
>>>
>>
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