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HMS Illustrious
Posted:
Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:58 pm
by brianh
Illustrious is due to leave Portsmouth 7 December 2016 in tow for the breakers at Aliaga in Turkey.
Re: HMS Illustrious
Posted:
Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:45 pm
by Dennis Maccoy
Re: HMS Illustrious
Posted:
Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:45 am
by Tynesider
She sadly arrived at her final resting place of Aliaga Turkey yesterday in tow from the Augustea's tug Eraclea
Re: HMS Illustrious
Posted:
Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:47 am
by Dennis Maccoy
Illustrious at Portsmouth on the evening of 31 July 1987. The pillar visible at the starboard aft corner of the quarter deck is the lower part of additional structure added (at the rush and possibly over-cautiously!) to carry recoil forces from the Phalanx fitted on the flight deck. The remainder of the structure, fitted internally, included a similar pillar through the middle of the XO’s cabin – leading to an adjacent cabin being also co-opted for the XO’s use, giving him a day cabin and sleeping cabin. The pillar on the quarter deck was still there on Illustrious’ final visit to the river in 2012 despite the Phalanx subsequently being replaced by Goalkeeper on a sponson on the port quarter – I’ve often wondered whether the pillar was ever removed from the XO’s cabin!
Re: HMS Illustrious
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Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:59 am
by Whickham
Sounds as though the XO had an interest in getting and keeping the pillar.
Re: HMS Illustrious
Posted:
Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:24 pm
by Patrick Hill
Seen at Portsmouth 28/06/2016.
Re: HMS Illustrious
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Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:33 pm
by Whickham
I wonder why all the scaffolding? They must have known by then that she was to be broken up.
Re: HMS Illustrious
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Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:41 pm
by Dennis Maccoy
Removing bits that they didn't want the scrapman to have.
Re: HMS Illustrious
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Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:15 am
by Whickham
Yes, I wondered about that, but there's a lot of activity at the stern end of the flight deck.
Re: HMS Illustrious
Posted:
Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:56 pm
by Dennis Maccoy
Refitting at Portsmouth on 29 August 1998, including fitting of an extension to the flight deck.