Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier

Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944, this unique vessel served the British then the Australian Navy as HMAS Vengeance prior to her sale to Brazil In 1956. Undergoing reconstruction and overhaul in Rotterdam from 1957 to 1960 she was commissioned as the Minas Gerais in December of that year. During her service with the Brazilian Navy she was overhauled from 1976 to 1980 completing a 5-year refit in 1981. She was decommissioned on the 16th of October 2001 and is currently for sale."

Comments

Interesting? Off-topic, more like.

[solarrhino]

This carrier does have a catapult. Who cares what other carriers do or do not have?

Re:European definition of "free"

[Eric E. Coe]

Maybe. Or maybe not. But the European (read French) obsession with this contains more than a wiff of "projection" onto the US "other". As in "that is what we would do if we were still able to be that powerful."

And "they believe that any such undertaking is intrinsically flawed" - these are the words of tired "old Europe" - the words of self-hate. The residue of the COMINTERN effort to destroy the West; preparing it for conquest by spreading defeatist memes. We're not buying it.