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10 February 2009, 21:27
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The Clemenceau arrivies in Teesside
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7877204.stm
Where do you stand on this?
Can the UK recycle the boat better than anybody else? If we can should we do it?
Chris
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10 February 2009, 21:42
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Country: UK - England
Town: Swindon
Boat name: WhiteNoise/Dominator
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It's valuable jobs-and given the H&S culture we have here and the amount of attention it's received, I doubt there'll be any pollution as it'd never happen again if there was an incident.
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10 February 2009, 21:50
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I'm all for it, if France doesn't want to do it or can't then we might as well have the work, it creates jobs on Teesside.
We've still got the American ghost ships kicking around somewhere too!
If it was upto me personally I'd clear them of any hazardous susbstances then sink them and make some great dive and fishing sites!
TAG have just lost the contract for the Seadragon project which has cost the surrounding businesses alot. So the more work the UK gets the better.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/te...4229-22788431/
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10 February 2009, 21:56
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They are getting paid £8.75 million to take it and its probably worth a million in pure scrap value on top of that.
Even after the labour costs, infrastructure, regulatory requirements they are going to be laughing!
Some serious money involved.
Chris
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10 February 2009, 21:59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chewy
We've still got the American ghost ships kicking around somewhere too!
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Weren't they the last Liberty ships or something similar?
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10 February 2009, 22:01
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Thats what they thought with the American ships until the license to break them was pulled. What do you do with a few old battleships? They did get the license again but I think theres more to it in the politics side.
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11 February 2009, 12:49
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I think it's sad that the shipyard has to scrap, rather than build ships.
But business is business and I'm glad we've got it.
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11 February 2009, 12:58
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nos4r2
Weren't they the last Liberty ships or something similar?
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I honestly haven't got a clue Nos.
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11 February 2009, 13:01
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a) I "think" so
b) They're in the same drydock as Clemenceau, all going to be dismantled together.
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11 February 2009, 13:10
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The Glost ships were afloat and had booms around them incase of any spills from them.
If you go on google maps the ships are just below Seal Sands and to the right of Graythorp.
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