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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 08:28 pm
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Are you an emerging regional power?

Are you an ambitious supervillain in the style of Auric Goldfinger?

HM Government, through its edisposals website has just the thing for you: HMS Invincible1. One careful owner, 30 years old. Several hundred thousand miles on the clock.



HMS Invincible is for sale by tender.
Laid down in 1973 at Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness, she was completed in 1980.
She is currently stable for tow, subject to buyer confirmation.
Displacement - Current 17000 Tonnes
Estimated metal weight - 10000 Tonnes
Estimated metal % - 95% mild steel
Length - OA 210m, W/L 193m
Draught - Fwd 5.2m, Mid 5.8m, Aft 5.8m
Beam - Extreme 35m, Ex-walkways 32m, W/L 27.53m
Height - 46m (estimated at current draught
Engines - Removed
Generators and Pumps - Generally unserviceable or not working
For fuller information, please see the General Particulars.

Add it to your cart now: be the envy of other megalomaniacs!


1Aircraft supplied separately

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Date: 2010-12-08 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluesman.livejournal.com
It's just the thing for [livejournal.com profile] romney to play with in the bath.

Hang on - I feel ill...

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Date: 2010-12-09 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] romney.livejournal.com
No room in the bath with all these Supermodels and Bubbles and the floating thing with the champagne, and the Rolls sunk on the bottom, and the small but deadly Underwater Base, and whatever it is that keeps nibbling on my toes.

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Date: 2010-12-10 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluesman.livejournal.com
Would they be supermodel aeroplanes?

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Date: 2010-12-08 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fencingsculptor.livejournal.com
Do they take paypal ?

(no subject)

Date: 2010-12-09 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] romney.livejournal.com
The "Aircraft supplied separately" foopnote also applies to the NEW carriers...
Edited Date: 2010-12-09 12:19 am (UTC)

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Date: 2010-12-09 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suitandtieguy.livejournal.com
but you can only launch Harriers off of it!

(no subject)

Date: 2010-12-09 10:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
What kind of super villain are you, that you can't design an alternative!

Honestly, these days... ;-)

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