Aircraft carrier Ark Royal makes final journey

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Ark Royal makes final journey to scrap yard

Large crowds have watched aircraft carrier Ark Royal leave Portsmouth for the final time.
The Royal Navy's former flagship was decommissioned early following the 2010 defence review and is being towed to Turkey for scrap.
The BBC's Steve Humphrey spoke to former Lieutenant Commander Nick Bradshaw in Portsmouth.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22600299

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The Royal Navy's former flagship, HMS Ark Royal, is to be towed to a breakers' yard in Turkey. But how exactly do you scrap an aircraft carrier?

There were schemes that offered a future of sorts to the Ark Royal - a proposal to sink it and turn it into a diving site off Torbay, a suggestion that it should become a floating casino off Hong Kong and a plan to turn it into a heliport for London.