Aircraft Carrier For Sale: A Perfect Father's Day Gift!

http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12 ^ | 5/29/3

[NativeNewYorker]

Ex-Aircraft Carrier--US$4,500,000 Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Limited England/1942-1945 Loaned to Australia 1953 – 1955 Sold to Brazil 1956, re-fitted 1957 – 1960 in Rotterdam Holland, angled deck added, overhauled 1976 –1980 Laid-up 1987, Refitted 1991 – 1993, Refitted 1997 – 1998 De-Commissioned November 2001, Sold to Private concerns 2002, Sale did not complete. Length: 693’ 3” Overall 630’ Waterline 690’ Flight deck Beam: 80’ 119’ 6” Flight deck Draught: 23’ Fore 23’ 5” 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’ long by 52’ Width by 17’ 6” height Generators: 4 Turbo generators and I diesel Generator producing 2500Kw AC. For History of this vessel follow this link: www.fleetairarmarchive.net/vengeance/

[NativeNewYorker]

[demsux]

I really want one. Anyone up for a time-share deal or limited partnership?

[TheBigB]

Will they gift-wrap?

[dd5339]

Vic,

We could upgrade our kayaks with this!

Semper Fi

[D. Brian Carter]

Wow! I want it! Forget the FR Cruise advertised in the banners here... let's take THAT bad boy to the Caribbean.

[ExpatCanuck]

$4.5 million sounds like a bargain; there are small yachts that cost more than that. How much (and how many people)does it cost to operate one of these things? Or it could be parked somewhere permanently and converted into some really cool living space.

[Ford Fairlane]

That is a bargain - I wonder if it still has its guns?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Moving and operating it would cost way more than 4.5 million, unfortunately.

[Dilly]

A serious question for a lighthearted post, but do you think that if I had the money, the Second Amendment should protect my right to buy and arm this ship?

[Constitution Day]

Just the thing for your favorite evil billionaire genius!

I'd be happy with just a tank.

[Eaker]

6,200 Nautical Miles @ 25 Knots

You could certainly ski for a loooong time!!!

Eaker

[NativeNewYorker]

Buy? Yes.

Arm? I don't know the regs on what kinds of weapons non-service folks can possess.

But I'm certain, if money is no object, owning/registering this baby offshore would cover most problems.

[TheBattman]

I wonder what shipping and handling would run?

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Perhaps we should start a "freep-a-thon" to rally the money up for the USS FREEP.

[Liberal Classic]

Is an antique aircraft carrier without any warplanes or bombs even a Second Amendment issue?

[JRandomFreeper]

he Second Amendment should protect my right to buy and arm this ship?

Certainly. Many of the ships and guns used in the Revolutionary war were privately owned and contracted to the Continental Congress.

/john

[dixiechick2000]

I call dibs!

If I plan it right, for Christmas I could get him an FA-18...with bombs!

JDAMs...MOABs...Bunker Busters...

Oh, and we'll need missles! And big bullets...

I gotta make a shopping list.

[KellyAdmirer]

Nice ride, but the accessories will kill you.

[MalcolmS]

A serious question for a lighthearted post, but do you think that if I had the money, the Second Amendment should protect my right to buy and arm this ship?

I don't know what the Nine would say, but there is a historical precedent. I believe private concerns were given letters of marque and permitted to attack the Barbary Pirates.

[Hot Tabasco]

Does it come with a trolling motor?