HMS Intrepid - The last voyage

[Bunk3r]

nice pics.

An interesting fact one Intrepid & Fearless was that towards the end of their operational life the navy only had one operational stern door for the ships and thats why you would only ever see one of them in service at a time. The other door would be swapped between ships and one would stay alongside.

There is a spare door actually in the rear of Intrepid, totally unused in primer red.

ha, maybe it wasnt a spare door but the door that belonged to Fearless buried in the back of Intrepid. so all these years theyve been sharing the other one, lol.

 

[FINNY]

lol unfortuantely not lol. Just been routing through pictures from when the 2 ships were together in June, just before Fearless went for scraping...

as you can see they both have a rear door, and intrepid with a spare...

 

[fatdeeman]

Great pics, thanks for posting!

Found this great photo on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29791278@N04/2804096770/sizes/o/

 

[freebird]

Wow, some excellent pics there! It is really good to see a battleship but it is so sad to know its to be cut in to bits! The pic from the front of the deck is brilliant!

 

[Dutchess]

Thanks for these marvellous pics of a proud old lady. I come from a sea-faring family and these sort of vessels tend to pull at the old heart strings when they are on their final voyage

D.

 

[TK421]

I go to work and have meetings and do other equally boring things, you tow a ship to the breakers ! What a job that is mate. Unless I have missed it, where is it getting broken up? Great photos by the way

 

[FINNY]

I dont do it for a living, its just the company I work for has purchased the ship and was offered the opportunity to be onboard as part of the towing crew.

It is moored up in Liverpool docks, its the canada docks

 

[Bryag]

Very good post Finny, this one was bugging me though, but your last few pics resolved my mental challenge. Intrepid and Fearless (the latter being the better known) were primarily landing craft deployment vessels (although they were capable of accepting MTB's and MLV's also, since neither were long range vehicles, they could be tarnsported to the theatre of conflict in this type of vessel). The rear of the ship was flooded and the door lowered allowing the deployment of landing craft for beach landings. Both Fearless and Intrepid were used in the Falklands conflict. It is sad that these fine Ships are being scrapped, but modern warfare has no use for their particular type of weaponry/troop deployment.

Please share more pics, if/when you are able

 

[TK421]

Thanks for clarifying that Finny, great report

 

[Urban-Warrior]

there stands a wonderful ship a real piece of our modern naval history, shame to see it go thanks for sharing

 

[T-bar]

shame but age takes its toll on everyhting. Love the way its no longer SCRAP but RECYCLING lol

 

[shatters]

It is sad that these fine Ships are being scrapped, but modern warfare has no use for their particular type of weaponry/troop deployment.

Quite the opposite, I worked on their replacements HMS Albion and HMS bulwark. Both built by Bae systems in Barrow-in-Furness

Phil

 

[Solo1]

Quite the opposite, I worked on their replacements HMS Albion and HMS bulwark. Both built by Bae systems in Barrow-in-Furness

From the same angle you would struggle to tell the old and new apart !!