Need an aircraft carrier? The US Navy will pay you to take one. A penny a pop.

[one.of.a.kind]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/09/us/penny-for-an-aircraft-carrier/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

"The Navy announced Thursday it's paying ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas, one cent to take the former USS Saratoga off its hands for dismantling and recycling."

"The Saratoga will follow the former USS Forrestal to dismantling in Texas. That ship was towed to All Star Metals of Brownsville earlier this year, with the Navy paying a penny to the ship recycler under a contract awarded last October."

 

[IM469]

Reminds me of 'Honest' Ed Mirvish who wanted to buy the last Canadian Aircraft Carrier Bonaventure when the government was selling it for scrape. He was going to bring it to T.O. and make a floating entertainment centre. The plan ground to a halt when it turned out the carrier was too wide to pass through the St Lawrence Seaway into Lake Ontario.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Reminds me of 'Honest' Ed Mirvish who wanted to buy the last Canadian Aircraft Carrier Bonaventure when the government was selling it for scrape. He was going to bring it to T.O. and make a floating entertainment centre. The plan ground to a halt when it turned out the carrier was too wide to pass through the St Lawrence Seaway into Lake Ontario.

I was aware that Canada at the end of WWII had the 3rd largest navy in the world (or something like that), but never knew we had an aircraft carrier.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

It was a Brit aircraft carrier that was under construction during WWII, but the war ended before she saw action. The Brits sold it to Canada in the early 50s and it was scrapped in the early 70s.

 

[AK-47]

I'd buy that carrier and turn it into a party boat

 

[Tiger]

I saw an interesting program on TV about scrap metal, and how all the Chinese are buying up as much as they can and driving up the prices of steel, iron, copper...
Building skyscrapers in Beijing and Shanghai ain't easy without girders.
I wonder how much they would pay for a big old aircraft carrier... we could fund a lot of hobbying if TERB bought that sucker.

 

[Indiana]

It was a Brit aircraft carrier that was under construction during WWII, but the war ended before she saw action. The Brits sold it to Canada in the early 50s and it was scrapped in the early 70s.

That's what they want you to believe.
Actually she was active for many more years and then a museum ship until recently in India.

 

[Mister K]

Another fact: The "Bonnie" as she was known was also decommissioned in July 1970 after undergoing a hugely expensive refit in 1967.

Just another in the long line of Liberal defense policy screw-ups. What is it about major procurement projects for the Canadian military that the politicians just can seem to keep their hands off them?

Aircraft, ships, tanks, support vehicles. Thank God for General Rick Hillier or we would not have heavy airlift capability in the form of the C-17 Globemaster III's and the CH-47 Chinooks.