Colin Bishop describes the Ark’s departure from Portsmouth to a Turkish scrapyard Monday 20th May 2013. A grey sky and a chilly wind seemed to be an appropriate backdrop to the departure of the Royal Navy’s former Flagship HMS Ark Royal to ignominious scrapping in Turkey. Prematurely decommissioned in 2011 as part of Defence cuts…
Pic 1: The French warship Forbin (D620), a Horizon Class DDG. Pic 2: Foremast of the Type 45 DDG H.M.S. Dauntless under construction at the VT facility Portsmouth. Pic 3: Part of the T45 amidships deck housing under construction. Pic 4: The forward section being transferred from VT Portsmouth to the Clyde (Picture courtesy of…
In any list of the world’s major maritime heritage sites, Portsmouth must command a place in the top ten. Rarely can you see so much in one place, so when our Editor suggested I might like to do a feature on the Historic Dockyard from a modelmaker’s viewpoint, I didn’t need asking twice. Portsmouth has…
