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aircraft carrier for sale

Fri May 30, 2003 3:12 am

At $4.5mil , looks like a deal to me.

http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/det ... mber=BOP12

Checking the prices of real-state in Manhattam, this could be an option :D
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Fri May 30, 2003 3:14 am

Thats a lot of money................. :o
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Hanger: 322’ long by 52’ Width by 17’ 6” height


World's biggest LAN party, sail to the Carribean for the winter, Alaska or Canada for the summer, international waters more often than not... Sounds like a perfect geek home to me.

Who wants to preorder a room?
 
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Fri May 30, 2003 3:49 am

YBK wrote:
Thats a lot of money................. :o


A small block of flats in Manhattam (about 20 apartments) is about twice that figure. I guess it's expensive to maintain and move.
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Fri May 30, 2003 3:51 am

Wohoo now that I saw more pics of it. 2.5 million feels like nothing :lol:
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Fri May 30, 2003 4:41 am

Can any body say LOTS OF CONDO'S....and floating ones to boot. Complete with you own private airport! 8)
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Fri May 30, 2003 5:57 am

Minus the palm trees and sand...but hey...great idea...definitely need the sunscreen for the white legs and arms for the "moles" that would inhabit :wink:
 
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Fri May 30, 2003 9:10 am

Thats really neat... If I had 4 1/2 million to blow, I might consider it for my personal party barge... lol...
 
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Fri May 30, 2003 9:34 am

Niteslayer wrote:
Can any body say LOTS OF CONDO'S....and floating ones to boot. Complete with you own private airport! 8)


You could use it for a military-orientented floating history museum. That would rock....$4.5 million sounds a little pricey, I only paid $100,000 for my Sherman tank, and my nuclear sub was only about $2 mil.
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Fri May 30, 2003 9:49 am

OK so we are 8. That's $562500 each.

If we were 25 (this can carry much more, with full rooms) it doesn't look bad at $180000 each. Like a small flat in a NY suburb.

Edit: typo
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Fri May 30, 2003 9:54 am

You would also have to budget a lot for maintenance costs. And what would the US Navy say if they saw you driving around NY harbor in this thing?!
 
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Fri May 30, 2003 10:27 am

You personally can now obliterate 3rd world nations:)
For the LOW LOW price of $4.5 million you can buy a aircraft carrier and for the additional price of $450 million you can outfit it with modern weapons to actually do it;)
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If I was rich I would go for it. It would be a real shame to see it broken up.
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Fri May 30, 2003 9:28 pm

The only thing that is bad about it is that it runs on oil. I can just see it pulling up to the gas station and needing a fillup that costs a million. I wonder what kind of gas millage this thing gets.
 
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Fri May 30, 2003 11:16 pm

Trust me on this one....NOT GOOD!! But if u could get a lotta geeks together...some bare chested women to cruise with...we could make it work :wink:
 
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Fri May 30, 2003 11:44 pm

This is a pretty cool thing to see for sale, even if it really is very old and small for a carrier.

It would cost quite a lot to make it useful, though. Flat tops aren't much good for anything besides what they're originally made to do without a very expensive conversion.

It would, however, be very interesting to see how many people might be interested in buying a piece of it.

I can remember in 1991 the "former Soviet Union" was selling old military jets for $21000 or so. I was very tempted, but looking into it more, the ones for that price were pretty crappy Mig-21's if I recall correctly, and had engines that would have to be completely overhauled after a very short number of hours of use. Still, they used to have some kind of short take-off or even Harrier-like vertical take-off jet, and put in combination, hey, we COULD become our own world power! :wink:

My plan, if I can get rich enough, is to do like those libertarians are doing and build a ship and stay off shore forever. Pass all the stupid laws you want, then, bozos. I'll watch you sink. 8)
 
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Sat May 31, 2003 3:28 am

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Minus the palm trees and sand...but hey...great idea...definitely need the sunscreen for the white legs and arms for the "moles" that would inhabit :wink:


You called? :lol:

$4.5m US? That's about, what? £2.7m? I feel a lock stock "Deal, steal, sale of the f**king century" moment :-D

You fancy sharing Austin?

Who pays for shipping? :-D
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Sat May 31, 2003 3:47 am

Ragnar Dan wrote:
This is a pretty cool thing to see for sale, even if it really is very old and small for a carrier.

It would cost quite a lot to make it useful, though. Flat tops aren't much good for anything besides what they're originally made to do without a very expensive conversion.

It would, however, be very interesting to see how many people might be interested in buying a piece of it.

I can remember in 1991 the "former Soviet Union" was selling old military jets for $21000 or so. I was very tempted, but looking into it more, the ones for that price were pretty crappy Mig-21's if I recall correctly, and had engines that would have to be completely overhauled after a very short number of hours of use. Still, they used to have some kind of short take-off or even Harrier-like vertical take-off jet, and put in combination, hey, we COULD become our own world power! :wink:

My plan, if I can get rich enough, is to do like those libertarians are doing and build a ship and stay off shore forever. Pass all the stupid laws you want, then, bozos. I'll watch you sink. 8)


Those 'abortion ships' are the worst of the offenders. They can 'lose' their communication tower all of a sudden for some reason before sinking. Accidents happen ;)
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Sat May 31, 2003 3:48 am

Niteslayer wrote:
Can any body say LOTS OF CONDO'S....and floating ones to boot. Complete with you own private airport! 8)

LicketySplit wrote:
Trust me on this one....NOT GOOD!! But if u could get a lotta geeks together...some bare chested women to cruise with...we could make it work


Sounds like a plan to me!
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Hey wait...I just thought of something....you can't get on a plane without getting a full-body cavity search, they've got metal detectors on every friggin door from the bathroom to the closet, we're so paranoid about chemical weapons that we blew up a manufacturing plant in Iraq that did nothing of the sort, (I could go on forever) but no one seems to have a problem with any Joe Schmoe that's got an extra wad to the tune of 4.5mil running around on a PRIVATE air craft carrier? What piece of the puzzle don't fit right dude?
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 9:54 am

Man if I had 4.5 mil burning a hole in my pocket, I would so be there. :D
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If I had 4.5 mil, I must have robbed a bank. 8)
 
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:45 am

The bbc story says it'd have to be towed most of the way..

The lifts to bring aircraft on deck still function - although the lower deck where the aircraft were once stowed now has goals at either end to form an almost full-sized football pitch.

The deadline for offers to buy the ship is this week.

But the British groups are still well short of the amount needed to take the Vengeance across the Atlantic.

Costs mean the ship would have to be towed for its last voyage although the Brazilians say it could be made ready to make the last re-entry to Britain under its own power.


HMS Vengeance. What a cool name. BTW This is the ship that the Japanese signed the surrender of Hong Kong.
 
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:09 pm

SF....if u had or i had 4.5 mill it wouldnt change our lifestyles one bit now would it? Yeah rite :wink:
 
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Clarpet wrote:
Hey wait...I just thought of something....you can't get on a plane without getting a full-body cavity search, they've got metal detectors on every friggin door from the bathroom to the closet, we're so paranoid about chemical weapons that we blew up a manufacturing plant in Iraq that did nothing of the sort, (I could go on forever) but no one seems to have a problem with any Joe Schmoe that's got an extra wad to the tune of 4.5mil running around on a PRIVATE air craft carrier? What piece of the puzzle don't fit right dude?


OK, you win the lottery and buy the HMS Vengeance. Its engines are high pressure steam boilers attached to turbines. It's highly unlikely that the turbines even spin anymore. Most of the men who once knew how to run them are dead; the rest are damned close. As for your fear of its armed might, the most optimistic published specs say it carried 4 3-pounder (47mm) guns and a bunch of 40mm anti-aircraft guns. Stay 5000 metres away and you're safe. Assuming its one catapult is still operational, that still begs the question of finding carrier-qualified aircraft, weapons, aircrew, ground crew, and the inevitable large pile of junk known as the spares bin. Max published speed is 25 knots (29 MPH/46KPH), or less than 50% of the speed of a stock out-of-the-box base SeaDoo. For the $4.5million price, its best use is a floating MTV studio so that Spring Break can chase the perfect wave of the Endless Summer.

Try tapping into Google Reality before posting about doom and gloom.

BTW, all specs found here: http://www.warships1.com/BRcvl06_Collossus_specs.htm
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If I had 4.5 mil, I could buy TR and make it my very own. Then I would have a reason to spend even more time here. Of course I could also buy the ship, but that would not be as cool. 8)
 
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Clarpet wrote:
Hey wait...I just thought of something....you can't get on a plane without getting a full-body cavity search, they've got metal detectors on every friggin door from the bathroom to the closet, we're so paranoid about chemical weapons that we blew up a manufacturing plant in Iraq that did nothing of the sort, (I could go on forever) but no one seems to have a problem with any Joe Schmoe that's got an extra wad to the tune of 4.5mil running around on a PRIVATE air craft carrier? What piece of the puzzle don't fit right dude?


OK, you win the lottery and buy the HMS Vengeance. Its engines are high pressure steam boilers attached to turbines. It's highly unlikely that the turbines even spin anymore. Most of the men who once knew how to run them are dead; the rest are damned close. As for your fear of its armed might, the most optimistic published specs say it carried 4 3-pounder (47mm) guns and a bunch of 40mm anti-aircraft guns. Stay 5000 metres away and you're safe. Assuming its one catapult is still operational, that still begs the question of finding carrier-qualified aircraft, weapons, aircrew, ground crew, and the inevitable large pile of junk known as the spares bin. Max published speed is 25 knots (29 MPH/46KPH), or less than 50% of the speed of a stock out-of-the-box base SeaDoo. For the $4.5million price, its best use is a floating MTV studio so that Spring Break can chase the perfect wave of the Endless Summer.

Try tapping into Google Reality before posting about doom and gloom.

BTW, all specs found here: http://www.warships1.com/BRcvl06_Collossus_specs.htm


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BTW that was also a joke. But my ass is hairy & white :lol:
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