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HMS Vengeance's fate hangs in the balance. On
Tuesday 16th October 2001, HMS Vengeance was de-commissioned as "Minas
Gerais" by the Brazilian Navy and is currently at the Naval Dockyard at
Rio de Janeiro. The
proposal is being made to convert the ship into a floating museum in Southampton.
Up to 4.13 million pounds sterling (US $6 million)
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Vengeance and the proposed Solent Aeronautica Heritage Centre Project
For details
click
here
For a map of
the location click
here
For a large
scale aerial photograph of the location click
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To date there are no preserved or safeguarded Aircraft
Carriers in the UK or the Commonwealth, and no plan to set up or preserve
any. This is quite in contrast with the USA where up to 11 aircraft carriers
are in preservation as ship museums (see FAA
Archive world carrier list).
Yet, the UK still has a chance to safeguard some
of its former aircraft carriers which subsequently saw service in Argentina,
Australia, Brazil and India and which were still in existence at the start
of 2001. See the
FAA
Archive Surviving carrier page directory for a summary of the surviving
RN and Commonwealth carriers which still survive today in the 21st Century.
Conservation is required urgently and a campaign of effort to ensure their
survival.
The full list of extant Aircraft carrier museums are
as follows:
USS FORRESTAL
USS Forrestal aircraft carrier
museum project (USA)
(see alternate website)
USS HORNET
USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier Museum
(USA)
USS INTREPID
USS Interpedid Sea-Air-Space
Museum, New York (USA)
USS LEXINGTON
USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier
Museum (USA)
USS MIDWAY
USS Midway - San Diego Aircraft
Carrier Museum (USA)
USS ORISKANY
USS Oriskany aircraft carrier
Museum (USA)
USS RANGER
USS Ranger Museum (USA)
USS SARATOGA
USS Saratoga museum project
(USA)
INS VIKRANT/HMS HERCULES
INS Vikrant/HMS Hercules aircraft
carrier campaign
USS YORKTOWN
USS Yorktown - Patriots Point
Naval and Maritime Museum (USA)
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