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21 December 2002: Negotiations are underway for
the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth to protect HMS Vengeance, as
negotiated by Tim Jones of the Devon & Cornwall Businesss
Council (DCBC).
20 December 02: Application for EU funding for Vengeance in the West Country by Devon and Cornwall Business Council
Chairman. Preliminary results due in January/February 2003.
mid December 02: Meeting between Director of new National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, the Chairman of SW Region
Chamber of Commerce and Devon and Cornwall Business Council Chairman.
13 December
02: Newspaper
headlines "Boosting tourism with a Vengeance. Exeter Express and Echo.
10 December
02: Newspaper
headlines "Historic Vessel that must have a new home”. Exeter Express and Echo.
December
02: Discussions with
Friends of HMS Vengeance on possible documentary with VARA TV, the Netherlands.
28 November
02: HMS Vengeance on the agenda at the
next meeting of the Devon and Cornwall Business Council Chairman.
17 November
02: Meeting
between Chairman of SW Region Chamber of Commerce and Friends of the
Vengeance, following Talls Ship Conference, Antwerp.
November 02: Bye, Old Warrior - Brazil bought the Minas Gerais aircraft carrier amid dreams of grandeur and of
becoming a military power. At the time of her acquisition, however, the MG
was already considered scrap metal by military experts. Report by Rodolfo Espinoza
in
Brazzil.com
November
02: Discussions
on financial support for Vengeance by Devon and Cornwall Business Council
representatives with European Union financiers.
26 October 02: Newspaper headlines "Tourism hopes of disused ship". Exeter Express and Echo.
26 October
02: Newspaper
headlines "Aircraft carrier will never land here". Exeter Express and Echo.
17-26
October 02: A
plan to bring the disused aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance into Tor Bay is being investigated by the
business group Brixham 21.
17 October
02: Meeting of
interested Brixham companies and investors with
SW Chamber of Commerce and HMS Vengeance Friends.
17 October
02: BBC Devon
Headlines "No room at Naval Base for Vengeance".
16 October
02: Newspaper
headlines "Warship Setting Museum Course" Devon and Cornwall Business Council
and South Devon Chamber of Trade propsosing Brixham as HMS Vengeance mooring.
12 October
02: Newspaper
headlines "No room for Vengeance". North Devon Journal.
11 October
02: Newspaper
headlines "Uncertain future for historic warship" Plymouth has
emerged as the front-runner to be the ship's new home.Devonport
Dockyard as one of the possible sites earmarked for the ship indicates
Devon and Cornwall Business Council.
10 October
02: Newspaper
headlines "Navy says no dockyard space for Vengeance". North Devon Journal.
10 October
02: Newspaper
headline "Warship museum takes off". Hull Daily Mail.
10 October
02: Devon and Cornwall Business Council
reviewing possibilities of HMS Vengeance being moored at Plymouth.
7 October
02: Devonport
Royal Navy meeting about HMS Vengeance.
7 October
02: Newspaper
headlines "HMS Vengeance could be ours". HMS Vengeance could be transformed into a huge floating museum and hotel
in Plymouth indicates Devon and Cornwall Business
Council. North
Devon
Journal.
1 October 2002: Meeting of Friends of HMS
Vengeance with the Arusha Shipping owner of Vengeance, SW Chamber of
Commerce, Finance Cornwall and Devon and Cornwall Business Council
to safeguard the ship for preservation.
17 September 2002: News Headlines "New Hope
on HMS Vengeance Appeal". North Devon Journal.
September
2002: Magazine
headlines "NAeL Minas Gerais
als drijvend museum".
Piloot & Vliegtuig
No. 9.
September
2002: Active
discussions with the Arusha Shipping HMS Vengeance purchaser to bring her
to UK.
28 August: Newspaper headlines "Ship
Campaign wants Vengeance".
August
2002: Confirmed -
Vengeance purchased by shipping entrepeneur
Philip Bush, Arusha Shipping which was one of the top tenderers
for the ship, has reportedly taken over the H.J. Jienxiin
shipping contract.
August
2002: Save the
Vengeance Appeal closes to be replaced by a completely new strengthened
group of experts, businessmen and financiers, the
"Friends of HMS Vengeance".
1 August 2002: Final outcome of purchaser of
HMS Vengeance still pending, Brazilian negotiations with H.J. Jienxiin shipping.
31 July 2002: News Headline "PORTA-AVIÕES
A PREÇO DE BANANA’. Report winning bid for US$ 2 million by HK Jiexin Shipping, with offices in Hong Kong Source
ISTEO.
26 July 2002: News Headline "War hero
uncle was an inspiration for campaign" . North Devon Journal. Exeter Express & Echo.
26 July 2002: HMAS Vengeance reunion. Fifty
Years since commissioning at Plymouth, UK, 1952 reunion to be held at Redfern RSL on July 26th
2002
at 1100am. Any inquiries phone Eric Bouvier on (Australia - Sydney) 93495158. All welcome.
25 July 2002: New date for announcement of
the outcome of the bidding procedure of the tender for HMS Vengeance in Brazil. Save the Vengeance Appeal
intentions for the ship favoured in the Brazilian
press. Surprise tender by China submitting highest bid,
Chinese H.J. Jienxiin shipping merchants of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
25 July 2002: News Headline "Government
should help to save HMS Vengeance" . North Devon Journal. Exeter Express and Echo.
25 July 2002: News Headline "Minas Gerais vira museu" . Aircraft carrier
Minas Gerais HMS Vengeance will be a museum. Jornal do Brasil.
23 July 2002: News Headline "História no ferro-velho, Chineses vão desmanchar o Minas Gerais". Jornal do Brasil.
22 July 2002: 2pm Brazilian time
Announcement of the winner of the tender for HMS Vengeance in Brazil - DECISION DELAYED TILL 25 JULY 2002.
20 July 2002: News Headline "Minas Gerais à venda , Porta-aviões
da 2ª Guerra já não tem uso militar ". Jornal do Brasil.
19 July 2002: News Headline "Sailor
bids to stop them scrapping the warship on which he served". Exeter Express and Echo.
19 July 2002: Brazilian Admiralty body
EMGEPRON confirms to Save the Vengeance Appeal that they have passed the
first hurdle to apply for the tender to purchase the ship. submit a proposal.
18 July 2002: Revised deadline from the
Brazilian Admiralty body EMGEPRON for Save the Vengeance Appeal to submit a
proposal.
17 July 2002: Save the Vengeance Appeal
complete preparations to submit their bid proposal.
17 July 2002: Port of Truro Harbour
Master confirms to the Save the Vengeance Appeal that HMS Vengeance can be immediately berthed in
the Fal Estuary once she returns to the UK.
17 July 2002: BBC Devon Broadcast Headlines on Save
the Vengeance Appeal.
16 July 2002: BBC South West Broadcast Headlines
on Save the Vengeance Appeal.
16 July 2002: BBC South Broadcast Headlines
on Save the Vengeance Appeal.
13th July 2002: Broadcasting about the Save
the Vengeance Appeal by BBC 1 Main News and BBC 24 News, BBC World Service,
and BB CBreakfast TV following interviews with
former ships crews in Brazil and UK, and filming of the ship in Rio de Janeiro.
July 2002: Series of Local Radio
interviews with Save the Vengeance Appeal members, Martin Hill and James Watling.
25 June 2002: News Headlines "Battle to Save Vengeance"
BGN2/272/4. Issue 272. London Press Service. London Press
Service is an agency offering news, features and pictures from Britain for use by journalists
overseas.
17 June 2002: Press association and BBC
South contact Save the Vengeance Appeal Team.
16 June 2002: Appeal to save the Vengeance
hits the National Press. Sunday Telegraph publishes article to assist Save
the Vengeance Appeal Team to raise funds to purchase the ship from
EMGEPRON.
14 June 2002: Deadline extended to Save the
Vengeance Appeal Team to raise funds to purchase the ship from EMGEPRON.
31 May
2002: Initial
deadline to Save the Vengeance Appeal Team to raise funds to purchase the
ship from EMGEPRON.
May 2002: Save the Vengeance Appeal Team
met with EMGEPRON at Rio de Janeiro on a goodwill mission and to
assess the ship and discuss terms of purchase of the ship in 2002.
May 2002: Save the Vengeance Appeal Team
prepare to fly out to Brazil for Marine Surveyors
assessment of the ship.
May 2002: Press coverage of the plight
of the Vengeance. Aeroplane Monthly
Magazine.
April/May
2002: Interests
in HMS Vengeance from Gibraltar Tourist Board.
April/May
2002: Availability
for berthing of HMS Vengeance with Cammel Laird (Gibraltar).
26 April 2002: Press coverage Portsmouth News
- Veteran carrier could be coming home.
19-20th April 2002: HMS Vengeance Association Reunion.
18th April 2002: Royal Naval Association
Southampton discuss affiliation and offer
expertise.
18th April 2002: Meeting with Lockheed Martin UK.
18th April 2002: Meetings at the Royal Naval Museum and preserved ship HMS
Warrior, Portsmouth.
18th April 2002: Meetings at the Royal Naval Museum and preserved ship HMS
Warrior, Portsmouth.
9th April 2002: Proclamation date for bidding
sale of Vengeance through EMGEPRON. Save the Vengeance Appeal to send team
to Rio de Janeiro.
April 2002:
News on the Save
the Vengeance appeal in the Registros bulletin of Infomar
- Sítio não oficial da Marinha Brasileira
Spring
2002: HMS
Vengeance article in Sea History, the magazine of the National Maritime Historical Society, NY, USA.
February-March
2002: Press
Coverage in Southampton and Portsmouth including interview of David Fricker, Maritime Preservation Society on behalf of the
Save the Vengeance Appeal by Portsmouth TV.
4th February 2002: Press coverage of the plight
of the Vengeance. Australian Navy News.
January/March
2002: Magazine
mostly devoted to NaeL Minas Gerais. Revista Marítima Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro. Serviço de Documentação da
Marinha. Contact email: revistamaritima@infolink.com.br
13th January 2002: Support from HMS Glory Association.
This is something
all of us who served on a carrier should support,
too much of our Naval history has finished up in a breakers yard.
11th January 2002: Letter of support from Capt. Channing M. Zucker USN,
Historic Naval Ships Association.
11th January 2002: Press coverage of the plight
of the Vengeance. Southampton Daily Echo.
9th January 2002: Press coverage of the plight
of the Vengeance. Portsmouth News.
7th January 2002: Press coverage of the plight
of the Vengeance. Portsmouth News.
January
2002: Maritime
Preservation Society pledge support for the Save the Vengeance Appeal.
28th December 2001: Press release to the Worlds'
Media (in HTML format or MS Word format)
27th December 2001: Fleet Air Arm Association of
Australia supports the Save the Vengeance Appeal.
20th December 2001: This website launched to
commemorate joint Anglo-Brazilian Anniversaries: the first commissioning of
HMS Vengeance on 16 December 1944 and her recommissioning
in the Brazilian Navy on 6 December 1960 as NAeL
Minas Gerais
19th December 2001. The Fleet Air Arm Associations
become interested in the Save the Vengeance campaign
1st December 2001. The Fleet Air Arm Archive lends
a hand and joins in assisting the promotion of the Save the Vengeance
campaign
30th November 2001. Minas Gerais
is currently in Rio de Janeiro Naval Dockyard. Negotiations
are presently being undertaken, to purchase the ship and return her to the UK, via the 'British Atlantic
Memorial Ships'. The original asking price of the ship was US$2M. but this has now increased to US$4M. and
an Oil Production Company are also interested in buying her. It is
estimated it will cost up to US$2M. to get her
home.
27th November 2001. The future of Minas Gerais is to be the topic of discussion at the Naval
meeting in Rio today, with the British Naval Attache included. Associated British Ports (ABP) in Southampton have
offered a lay-up anchorage.
19th November 2001. Meeting held with BAE and the
Save the Vengeance Appeal, and a BAE Systems
representive is flying to Rio on the 1st December. RNA to be
approached to ascertain if they can provide a crew to sail the ship home.
1850 Squadron Association has offered support.
23rd October 2001. Minas Gerais,
formerly HMS. Vengeance, was finally
decommissioned from the Brazilian Navy on Tuesday
16th October 2001, after almost 57 years after she was launched. She
has completed service in three different Navies, the Royal Navy, the Royal
Australian Navy and the Brazilian Navy within that time.
1 June 2001: Minas Gerais facilita réveillon - Jornal do Brasil
article about negotiations of the Major of Rio to use Vengeance/Minas Gerais. (Source
information).
Early 2001: Appeal started to safeguard the
Vengeance by 'Battle of the Atlantic Memorial
Ships' and propsals promoted by the Fleet Air Arm
Archive.
September 2001: Portsmouth News and HMS Vengeance press
article.
Revista Marítima
Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro. Volume 120, n.º 10/12. Serviço de Documentação da Marinha, out./dez 2000.
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