caddyman: (Government)
caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2010-12-08 08:28 pm

edisposals.com

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

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

Hang on - I feel ill...

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

[identity profile] romney.livejournal.com 2010-12-09 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
The "Aircraft supplied separately" foopnote also applies to the NEW carriers...
Edited 2010-12-09 00:19 (UTC)

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