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SYDNEY, June 5 (Reuters) - A German investment company said on Tuesday it planned to sell the components of two unwanted Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, in an apparent move to send the world's largest jetliner to the breakers yard for the first time due to slack demand.
She followed her sister ship to the breakers' yard in 1911.
She arrived at their breakers yard in Bo'ness on 20 September 1957.
She arrived at the breakers yard at Barrow on 1 November 1956.
She arrived at the breakers yard at Faslane on 30 November 1959.
She arrived at the breakers yard at Grays, Essex on 1 September 1957.
The ship's badge was saved from the breakers yard and donated to Liverpool National Maritime Museum.
201 Montebello was eventually stricken on 26 January 1920, and Goito followed her to the breakers' yard on 15 March.
She remained there until sold to BISCO for scrap. She arrived at the breakers yard at Llanlley on 1 December 1956.
On 14 June 1945 she arrived in Plymouth, at the end of July she arrived in tow at Barrow Breakers' Yard.
She remained there until sold to Thos W Ward for scrap. She arrived at the breakers yard in Preston on 20 November 1956.
All three ships were sold for scrap, with Maine and Missouri going to the breakers' yard in January 1922 and Ohio joining them in March 1923.
Contest was paid off in the late 1950s. Following her sale she arrived at the breakers yard for scrapping at Thos W Ward Grays, Essex on 2 February 1960.
She was eventually replaced by the frigate in 1972 and she too headed for the breakers yard at Cairn Ryan, the last of the Royal Navy's 1942 Battle class destroyers.
Comus was withdrawn from active service and listed for disposal in 1955. Following her sale Comus arrived at the breakers yard of John Cashmore Ltd for scrapping at Newport, Wales on 12 November 1958.
Princesa Victoria was laid up from 2002. By then she was the oldest large liner still operating anywhere in the World. In 2004 she was scrapped at the Kumar Steel Breakers Yard in India.
After being placed on the Disposal List she was sold on 20 October 1970 to BISCO for demolition by J Cashmore. She arrived in tow at the breakers yard in Newport on 15 November that year.
Terry placed an ad four music papers and the noticeboard in the music shop for musicians to play with Buddy but there were no replies. Terry heard from an old friend called Dougie about a group he knew called the Hi-Tone Four so he arranged to have Buddy play with them for experience. Buddy practised with the middle aged band in the shed at Des King's breakers yard then performed at weddings with them. Terry left his job at the petrol station without notice and started working at the breakers yard.
The ship was put on the Disposal List in 1961 and sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation (BISCO) for demolition by Hughes Bolcow. She arrived in tow at the Breakers yard in Blyth on 19 October 1962.
After the end of the war Scarborough was placed on the disposal list and sold to BISCO on 3 June 1949. She was towed to Thornaby-on- Tees and arrived at the breakers yard on 3 July, where she was scrapped.
Concord was withdrawn from active service in 1957. Following decommissioning she was attached to at Rosyth as a static training ship. Following her sale Concord arrived at the breakers yard of Thos W Ward at Inverkeithing on 22 October 1962.
In 2004 Oriana was damaged in a storm. Repairs proved to be unfeasible, so she was towed to a ship breakers yard and dismantled in 2005. In 1995, the name Oriana was assigned to the P&O; Cruises ship MV Oriana.
By August 1950, the shipbreakers had removed the damaged section, and refloated her after-end. The after-end was taken to the breakers yard in Dalmuir for further inspection, but the fore-end was broken up as it was laid on the beach.
Marriott, pp. 65–66 The ship then served as part of the 6th Destroyer Squadron in the Home Fleet between 1953 and 1957. Comet was paid off in February 1958. Following her sale she arrived at the breakers yard for scrapping at Troon on 23 October 1962.
She then transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Chatham in January 1950. She was then moved to Portsmouth in 1953 and laid up. She was then sold to BISCO for scrap. She arrived at the breakers yard of JJ King at Sunderland on 3 September 1959.
From 1946 until 1951 she was part of the Nore Local Flotilla and was then placed in reserve again at Hartlepool. She remained there until 1962 when she was sold to BISCO for scrapping by Hughes Bolckow. She arrived at their breakers yard in Blyth on 29 November 1962.
In 1929, the ship transferred to Landévennec, still in reserve. She was stricken from the naval register on 18 August 1933 and sold to ship breakers in 1934. While in the breakers' yard in December that year, Metz caught fire. Scrapping work was completed by 1936 at Brest.
Stuart was decommissioned into reserve on 27 April 1946.Cassells, The Destroyers, p. 111 The destroyer was sold to T. Carr and Company on 3 February 1947 for ship breaking, and was delivered to the breakers yard on 21 February. After scrapping, the keel was buried in Kissing Point Bay, Putney, New South Wales.
HMS Whitshed was not deployed again operationally and after the end of hostilities she was paid off and reduced to reserve status. The ship was placed on the Disposal List in 1946. She was sold to BISCO in February 1947 for demolition by TJ King. The ship arrived at the breakers yard at Gateshead in April 1948.
In April 1981, Ross Revenge was towed from the Cairnryan breakers' yard, and arrived in Solares five days later. Come Autumn, work began on converting her into a functioning radio ship. Her transmitter mast, at above sea level, was the tallest mast ever fitted to a ship. Early in 1982, new investors were found for Radio Caroline.
Buddy's parents went with him to dinner with Carol's friend Joyce and came home having a big row. Terry left when Carol said she did not need him. Terry moved into the caravan at the breakers yard and Buddy came to visit him. This was when Buddy came up with the idea for the song Torn in Half.
In July 2015 the Ministry of Defence gave advanced notice of sale of the vessel for further use or recycling, noting that "parties interested in acquiring the vessel for future use should note it will require considerable investment". The vessel left Portsmouth under tow on her final voyage to the breakers yard in Turkey on 1 June 2016.
Witherington was paid off into reserve after VE-Day. She was placed on the disposal list after VJ-Day. On 20 March 1947 she was sold to Metal Industries for breaking up. On 29 April while under tow to the breakers yard at Charlestown near Rosyth she parted the tow and was wrecked off the mouth of the Tyne in a gale.
She was deployed as part of the force in the Lobster War between Brazil and France. Decommissioned for the final time and placed into reserve, the Tamandare was eventually sold for scrap to Taiwan in 1980 and was under tow to the breakers yard (Taiwan) when she flooded and sank on 24 August 1980, near Cape of Good Hope, at .
They heard a cry of pain from the office of the breakers yard and went to investigate. In the office were two big men who trapped Des King's hands in a filing cabinet. Terry confronted them with an iron bar and they left. Buddy and Terry helped Des into the van and drove him home where his wife called their doctor.
This was a breakers yard owned by the Beatson family.Famous Fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p. 214 Temeraire was hauled up onto the mud, where she lay as she was slowly broken up. The final voyage was announced in a number of papers, and thousands of spectators came to see her towed up the Thames or laid up at Beatson's yard.
On 2 February 1945, she attacked and likely sunk a German midget submarine off Zeebrugge. In August 1945, Cattistock was transferred to the Portsmouth Local Flotilla and was paid off on 26 March 1946. She was sold for scrap after ten years in reserve in 1957. In June 1957 she arrived at the breakers yard of John Cashmore Ltd at Newport, Wales for breaking up.
The coastal path passes through a "circus" formed by the listed buildings of Porth-en-Alls and include a crescent shaped "Lodge". The complex was designed and built by Philip Tilden in 1911, but never completed due to the Great War. In April 1947 HMS Warspite ran aground here whilst being towed to the breakers yard. She was later towed to, beached and broken up at Marazion.
On 29 September 1945, Cleveland steamed from Gibraltar to Devonport and was placed in reserve.Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. , page 29 She was sold for scrapping and was wrecked at Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales, on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea on 28 June 1957 while under tow to Llanelli, Wales, for scrapping. en route to the breakers yard.
Although brought forward to attend the Coronation Review in 1953, in which she took partSouvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden she was not recommissioned for operational service and was placed on the Disposal List in 1955. She was sold to Thos W Ward in 1956, and arrived in tow at the breakers yard in Grays, Essex, on 23 August 1956 for demolition.
After the end of the war Westminster was briefly employed as a destroyer courier to Norway, but was withdrawn from operational service and paid-off by mid June. She was then reduced to the reserve and put on the disposal list in 1946. She was sold to BISCO on 4 March 1947 and towed to the breakers' yard in Charlestown, near Rosyth, arriving there during August 1948. She was then broken up.
It was originally the toll house, and the name came from grapes grown in a greenhouse next door. To the south of Pease Pottage is Tilgate Forest Row which had three shops, a blacksmith and post office. The Pease Pottage cricket field was between here and Pease Pottage (now a car breakers yard). The cricket field was made in 1874, but was ploughed up in 1939 as part of the war effort.
A short film was made about this excursion by British Pathe News. The Ryde was finally withdrawn from service in August 1969. Heading for the breakers yard, she was bought for £12,000 and saved by the Ridetts, who took her to Island Harbour in September 1970, to become its second floating restaurant and nightclub. After an extensive re-fit costing £60,000, she was officially opened as the 'Ryde Queen Boatel' on 14 June 1972.
Camperdown was laid up in the Hamoaze at Devonport for many years until finally being sent to the breakers yard at Faslane in 1970. Now only Saintes remained. On paying off in 1962, a volunteer towing crew from her last commission took her to Rosyth, where she went into reserve. Here she was used as the training ship for Artificer Apprentices from who kept her engines and machinery in full working order.
MV Ross Revenge as radio ship in 1984 While moored at the Cairnryan breakers' yard, Ross Revenge was found to be suitable for use in the Radio Caroline project. As a result, Ernst Kunz from Austria a director of Seamore Company, Liechtenstein purchased Ross Revenge for £28,500. The ship was subsequently registered in Panama to Grothan Steamship Line, SA Panama. It is worth noting that both Seamore and Grothan were influenced heavily by Ronan O'Rahilly.
Terry moves into the caravan at the breakers yard where Buddy visits him. Meanwhile, Julius finds a band called the Hurt and Buddy plays with them at the milk depot. Buddy joins Glenn the milkman, along with Mike and Jason, and Julius becomes their manager and tambourine player. Buddy goes to a Teddy boy pub to perform with the Hi-Tones where Terry meets a young woman named Dawn; then a fight breaks out after Terry unplugs the jukebox.
At the same time, her guns were removed and she was moved to the Kieler Förde later that year to await the breakers' yard. Sachsen was duly stricken from the naval register on 3 November 1919 and sold in late 1920 to ship breakers. After being sold, she was returned to the shipyard to have her side armor and gun turrets removed. She was then transferred to the breakers to be dismantled, work lasting until 1923.
It was a Quaker training centre for conscientious objectors doing relief work during World War II. From 1943 to 1946 or 1947, while still owned by the Quakers, it was used a YHA Youth Hostel known as Spiceland (named after the location of a Friends Meeting House, several miles away in the parish of Uffculme). It became a vehicle breakers' yard in 1951. In 2013 the house was used as a location in a low budget horror movie called In Fear.
In the late 1950s, she operated frequently in the Caribbean Sea, while the intensification of the Vietnam War brought her back to the western Pacific in the mid-60s. Suamico was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 November 1974. The ship was returned to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) on 22 January 1975, and sold the same day to Fuji Marden & Co., Hong Kong, for scrapping. On 13 February 1975, the ship was delivered to a breakers yard at Yokohama, Japan.
Terry gets Carol to move back in, but rows later arise between them. Terry gets an electric guitar and an amplifier along with a keyboard for Buddy and a camcorder for himself, which gives him the idea of advertising in the local newspaper to film weddings. Terry resigns from his job at the bookmaker and starts working for Des King at his breakers yard. Terry then arranges to have Buddy play with a band of middle-aged men called the Hi-Tones who recently lost their singer.
At band practice, Glenn apologises and Buddy forgives him, though he does not want Elaine back. At the breakers yard Terry films a music video for the band's song Nothing Serious and hands the tape to the video editor Donald to be dubbed and cut. Terry finds a note on the caravan door that reads 'Get stuffed' from Dawn then hears a howl of pain from the office. Terry finds two men attacking Des and manages to shift them off him but he gets stabbed.
On commissioning Tay was allocated for service as a convoy escort in the Western Approaches and the Atlantic. In June 1943 she was allocated for service in the Eastern Fleet, operating in the Indian Ocean. At the end of the war she remained based at Singapore, until returning to the UK in 1947 where she was paid off and reduced to reserve. She was placed on the disposal list in 1956 and was towed to the breakers yard at Rosyth on 26 September 1956.
The four remaining PCC cars were retired in 1999. These PCCs were from an original fleet of 12 "homebuilt" cars constructed in the 1980s in the Port Authority shops using a combination of new underframes, lower body panels, front and rear ends, interiors, wiring and controls, together with reconditioned components such as trucks, motors, and upper body parts and windows reused from original Pittsburgh PCCs numbered in the 1700 series. They avoided the breakers yard, along with some other trolleys from the later years of PAT ownership.
Two of the new intermediate liners were sold by 1970 and the other two were converted to cruise ships. All Cunard ships flew the Cunard flag over the White Star flag until late 1968. This was most likely because White Star Line's Nomadic remained in service with Cunard until 4 November 1968, and was sent to the breakers' yard, only to be bought for use as a floating restaurant. After this, all remnants of both White Star Line and Cunard-White Star Line were retired.
Railway track looking towards Milford Haven, across swing bridge The Newton Noyes area had previously been occupied as a ship breakers yard. Known locally as Wards Yard, it was connected to the mainline railway via a spur from Milford Haven which crossed Castle Pill via a swing bridge. A cast iron pier, built in 1872 with the intention of encouraging transatlantic traffic to unload, allowed a rail / marine interchange.Wing Commander Ken McKay A Vision Of Greatness: The History of Milford 1790-1990, Brace Harvatt Associates, 1989.
KB 969 was withdrawn after hauling the only ever double-headed KB train, having suffered a cracked motion bracket. Before it was sent to the breakers' yard, it was inscribed with a message reading "Goodbye Kb 969, you'll come back as roofing iron". KB 967 was withdrawn in October 1968. This left only three KB's in service (965, 968 and 970), and of those, only 968 and 970 were still used regularly while 965 was kept as a standby spare locomotive from July 1968 onwards; with the remaining two being withdrawn in March 1969.
The ship was nominated for conversion to an anti-submarine frigate and her main armament was to be removed. However, in 1955 this work was cancelled and the ship was placed on the Sale List. There were plans to transfer her to West Germany, but after inspection by West German officials the proposal was rejected due to her poor condition and she was sold to BISCO in 1958 for breaking-up at Newport, Monmouth by Cashmore. On 12 February 1959 she arrived in tow at the breakers yard.
At the same gig Mike and James met their friend Dave from Plymouth who played keyboard with them in their previous band. They hired Dave to play the keyboard when they recorded Torn in Half and Nothing Serious. Terry filmed the music video for Torn in Half at the breakers yard where Paul joined them and a local known as the Video King edited it. Terry bribed the two record shops, that the local paper used to compile their chart, into stocking the single and made sure the local radio stations had copies.
In 1924 Welsh writer and naturalist Ronald Lockley wrote that there were probably 25 to 30 pairs on the island. However, in 1934 the liner Herefordshire, being towed to the breakers' yard, ran aground on the island in a storm, and rats made it ashore. Over a period of years they ate the eggs and chicks of nesting seabirds, and wiped out the island’s population of puffin and Manx shearwater, which have never returned. The wreck has attracted a wide variety of marine life and is a diving attraction.
She underwent major conversion work at the Chatham Dockyard during 1952–1953 to become a Type 15 anti-submarine frigate, rejoined the Fleet in 1954 (with a new pennant number, F41) and served in the Dartmouth Training Squadron for two years. In 1956 she went into Reserve for a second time, at Portsmouth and in 1964 she was used for the harbour training of Royal Marines. Volage was never re-commissioned. She was placed on the disposal list and sold to BISCO on 28 October 1972 and towed to Pounds breakers' yard at Portchester later that year.
St Austell Bay was recommissioned in May 1955, but significant problems with the refit delayed deployment until November when she returned to Bermuda for the usual programme of joint exercises, training and port visits in the Caribbean and to North America. She returned to Plymouth in August 1956 to decommission and was put into Reserve. St Austell Bay remained in the Reserve Fleet at Plymouth until 1959 when she was placed on the Disposal List. She was sold to BISCO for demolition by Shipbreaking Industries and arrived in tow at the breakers yard at Charlestown near Rosyth on 5 July 1959.
After retirement by the Matson Line she was sold to Home Lines, which renamed her Atlantic and later Queen Frederica (after Queen Frederica of Greece) before being sold to Chandris Lines. After fifty years of service for several different companies, she was sold to Greek breakers in July 1977 and was towed to the breakers yards at Eleusina, Greece. In February 1978 while her interiors were being demolished she was gutted by fire and work was temporarily halted. Three years later her remaining hull sections could still be seen among other ships at the breakers' yard.
Outside filming of the Steptoes' yard took place at a car-breakers' yard in Norland Gardens, London W11, then changing to Stable Way, Latimer Road, for the later series. Both sites have subsequently been redeveloped with no evidence now remaining of the entrance gates through which the horse and cart were frequently driven. The pilot episode and the first four series, which aired in 1962–1965, were recorded in the BBC Lime Grove Studios in London. When the show returned in 1970 after a four-year hiatus, the programme was made in the BBC Television Centre studios in west London, as from 1970 the show was recorded in colour.
Principe di Carignano and Messina were modernized with new guns in 1870. Neither ship played a role in the attack on Civitavecchia that year--the last stage of the Italian wars of unification that resulted in the seizure of Rome--owing to the very poor state of the Regia Marina in the aftermath of Lissa.Gardiner, p. 336 In 1875, Principe di Carignano was sold for scrap to reduce the maintenance budget in an attempt to offset part of the cost of the new and s then under construction; Messina and Conte Verde followed in 1880, though the latter remained laid up until she too went to the breakers' yard in 1898.
Just as the retiring of Cunard Line's RMS Aquitania in 1950 marked the end of the era of the classic pre-World War I 'floating palaces', and also the end of Cunard- White Star, so the retirement of the Britannic a decade later had marked the end of an era for White Star as a visible brand. All other ships flew the Cunard flag over the White Star flag until late 1968. This was most likely because Nomadic remained in service with Cunard until 4 November 1968, and was sent to the breakers' yard, only to be bought for use as a floating restaurant.
T.S. Iveston was berthed in the Tilbury Docks and used by the Sea Cadet Corps as a training base mostly by Thurrock Sea Cadets but also by Sea Cadets from Essex, Greater London and Southern and Eastern areas between 1993 and 2014.Navy News, 2004 Iveston’s Indian Summer. The training available encompassed marine engineering, seamanship, canoeing, pulling, sailing, powerboating, cook/steward and instructors’ courses. Due to health and safety requirements plus the increasing costs to maintain the structural and internal integrity of the vessel Thurrock Sea Cadets were unable to keep her and in March 2015 the vessel was sold to a breakers yard at Erith on the River Thames.
In 1936, Coxswain Frank Blewitt was awarded a bronze medal for rescuing the crew of nine from the SS Taycraig after it ran aground in Mount's Bay during a gale. Coxswain Edwin Madron received a silver medal and Mechanic Johny Drew a bronze medal for another exceptional service in April 1947. They took the W and S out into seas to rescue eight people from which ran aground on the way to the breakers yard after it had been retired at the end of the Second World War. Madron was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, London.
It was shown live on RTÉ and attended by such dignitaries as President Michael D. Higgins, Sabina Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, his wife, the Garda Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan, Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl, former Presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, former Taoisigh Bertie Ahern (accompanied by his brother Noel Ahern), Brian Cowen and Liam Cosgrave, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Martin McGuinness (representing the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister). On Easter Monday (28 March), President Higgins and Acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny laid wreaths at the Stone Breakers' Yard in Kilmainham Gaol, scene of the 1916 executions. Before this occurred, the Flag of Ireland was lowered to half mast in front of Defence Forces personnel and relatives of the dead. Afterwards, there was a minute's silence, the "Piper’s Lament" and the "Last Post" were played, then Army captain Glen Harmon held aloft a shining sword to serve as an introduction to the national anthem.

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