Davy Jones locker welcomes long servicing vessel

Able UK has been given the contract to recycle the Clemenceau, mainly known as Q790. The 32,000 tons of French aircraft carrier is to be towed to Britain later in the summer where it will be dismantled at Graythorp on the river tees.

Clemenceau is 238m and has sailed more than a million nautical miles in the 40 years it had sailed the seas.

There was a plan originally to scrap the vessel in 2005 in Spain or India. However the deal fell through once the vessel had been towed all the way to the sub-continent and back!

This is the biggest scrapping task that a European yard has ever taken on.

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02/07/2008 10:35:42