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What British Carrier is this on Google Earth?

Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:25 am

Alang, India boasts a huge ship scraping operation and there is a British Carrier there with the Harrier "Ski Jump".
I think it might be the "HMS Invcincible", but I'm not up on my British Carriers.
Does anybody know what Carrier it is?
Check out Google Earth. Copy and paste:
N 21° 22' 52.45, E 72° 10' 39.24

Just wondering!
Blue skies,
Jerry

Re: What British Carrier is this on Google Earth?

Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:37 am

Airdales wrote:Alang, India boasts a huge ship scraping operation and there is a British Carrier there with the Harrier "Ski Jump".
I think it might be the "HMS Invcincible", but I'm not up on my British Carriers.
Does anybody know what Carrier it is?
Check out Google Earth. Copy and paste:
N 21° 22' 52.45, E 72° 10' 39.24

Just wondering!
Blue skies,
Jerry

Jerry,it is marked as HMS VENGEANCE on my Google earth (not that you should believe a lot of the info marked on it ! but correct in this instance), you need to turn on Military in Google earth community under layers

H.M.S. VENGEANCE (R71) / H.M.A.S. VENGEANCE
/ MINAS GERAIS (BRAZILIAN NAVY)

A sad end after 60 years (May 2004)
Her first aircraft were Seafire, Barracuda and a Corsair in Jan '45
http://www.hms-vengeance.co.uk/index.htm

Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:20 pm

Very cool!
I never explored Google Earth's other features!
I just enjoyed looking around and hunting for stuff!
Thanks for the heads up!
Too bad no one bought the Carrier on EBAY last year!
Jerry
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