Planning on avoiding the Christmas madness by doing all your shopping online? Why not buy your loved ones the gift that keeps on giving… a highly decorated warship!
The HMS Invincible is a 210 metre long light aircraft carrier built in 1980, which was destined to become a part of Australia’s navy back in 1982. But when the Falklands were invaded, the British Navy used the ship in the war over the Falklands and Australia decided not to buy it. I mean, who wants sloppy aircraft carrier seconds?
Now almost 30 years later, it sits in dock with its engines removed, generators and pumps not working, waiting for someone to buy it online via edisposals.com.
If you actually click on the “Add to Cart” option on the online shopping page, you can’t actually proceed to the checkout for your warship purchase. The official reason is that the ship is actually only available for “sale by tender”, but we reckon it probably has something to do with there not being a checkout – virtual or real – big enough for a warship to sit on…
By the way, if anyone wants to know what to buy me for Christmas this year, follow the link below…
[eDisposals - Thanks Dean!]
matt
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 3:25 PMis that the one they launched the stig off of in top gear?
Tom
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 5:08 PMYes, yes it is. Well spotted Matt. Didn’t realise until your comment. Surely that has to jack up the price and all.
Woodze
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 3:29 PMI notice you can also buy 1x Harrier GR7 on there too…
I wonder if you can combine the two and get a discount?
What a great first step towards a little air superiority of your own!
attila
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 3:30 PMThe Poms give their ships much better names than us. If we had ended up buying it, would have been called the HMAS Australia – that can’t compare to HMS Invincible – or HMS Battleaxe!
olearymo
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 5:44 PMNot to mention Thunder Child.
Iain Graham
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 9:01 PMEnterprise?
Or even Moya!
attila
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 9:15 AMheh, I am not sure fictional names count though.
Steve
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 7:55 PMFor every cool sounding British warship, there’s a really fruity one like “Price of Wales”
olearymo
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 9:45 AMThere’s a price? I didn’t know they were selling Wales at all
Ed Hearsum
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 7:48 PMwe are only now about to get a ship that is equal to this. Well actually they are bigger and we are getting two, Canberra and Adelaide. A couple of old school names would have been better, Vanquish and Vampire or something along those lines.
Adrian
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 9:51 PMFor more information see “the General Particulars” – I wonder if he is a 4 or 5 star General ;-)
Classic!
olearymo
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 9:48 AMactually, the General Particulars are that it’s a Private Sale, a Major Buy, with a Colonel of Truth to it.
Please enSign the contract here…
Daryl
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 5:31 AMMaybe Malcolm Fraser should buy it.