From: M. Thirtyseven (m37greenbeast@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 18:45:03 PDT
Guess that is why there is this wonderful place in the sub continent of
India where they do "ship breaking".
>From: "J. Forster" <jfor@quik.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] USS America scrap option - I volunteer to take the next
>one off the Governments hands...free of charge!
>Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:37:35 -0400
>
>An ex-Navy Engineering Officer told me that many of the spaces in older
>warships
>were sprayed with Asbestos. The cost or removal and disposal of that stuff,
>at
>least stateside, might far exceed the scrap value of the steel.
>
>FWIW,
>-John
>
>
>MV wrote:
>
> > Since I'm an extra nice guy, I've decided that with the next aircraft
> > carrier or destroyer that the US Goverment wants to get rid of..... I
> > will volunteer to take off their hands and I won't even charge them
> > anything! [snip]
>
>
>
>
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