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#481656 7th Mar 2011 10:52am
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is due to sail up the Mersey and past Cammell Lairds today between 11 and 11.15am. it will give a gun salute to the shipyard before it heads south to be de-commissioned.

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She's actually going up to Campbeltown in Scotland for a week first before going to be decommissioned. My friend is the XO onboard smile



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is she being scrapped or sold on


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At the moment, it looks like she'll be scrapped, but that might all change - you just never know until the first rivet's removed.

Either way, it's bloody sad frown


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Very sad indeed


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How sad, we visited her on Saturday and I heard her this morning in work. Didn't realise she was ending her days, great boat.

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[quote=Wench]At the moment, it looks like she'll be scrapped, but that might all change - you just never know until the first rivet's removed.

If it does have rivets, it is in need of scrapping!

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so long as they leave the "Golden Rivet" in situ.

Sally, Sally, Sally. A "boat" is a submarine, the Campbeltown is a ship. Honest!

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One hopes never to receive the Golden Rivet,
Another shipbuilding custom thats never changed is, where the last rivet goes. Traditions must be kept.


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Hiya Bert, you don't receive the golden rivet, you look for it and it is usually at deck level, for the uninitiated so to speak. The reward is received when you bend over to look closely at it. Ouch! There is a fine example of one in the RNA Club, Park Road East. Just ask where it is and you can have a look at it.
When you think about it seafarers of any persuasion are a mad bunch of b......s.

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Ouch is what i meant Bandy. Its the &%^$£%$ thats received.


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It's only what I've heard bert, never went looking for it myself, same malarky as hammock stretchers and things. A good laugh though.


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I also took my dad for a look around the ship on Saturday.Worked on it in Lairds and did the sea trials on her etc. She was in very good condition and its a shame its just going to be scrapped.

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any pics peeps?


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I'll sort mine out TC. I was in no fit state the past few days after getting hammered onboard raftl


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