MOD to give away HMSVictory?

right so they are just giving it to a company who's going to keep it there and just run the tour guides etc?

Don't really see a problem, it is more of a museum than a ship.

So probbably the people who keep the rose in the same place?

or they're giving it to another gov dpt.



HMS Victory costs a minimum of £1.5m to maintain and run each year, but that figure can go up when major work is needed.
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Should help buy a few more bushmasters from the Aussies.
 
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izzy eckerslike said:
MOD are considering 'giving away' Nelson flagship HMS Victory, the worlds oldest fully commissioned battleship even tho its set in concrete at Portsmouth.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/MOD-consider-giving-away-HMS.4485926.jp


Should be a major protest over this for sure
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Surely, if it is set in concrete it won't move and as its stated a "private company" might just fund it to keep it maintained?

Not sure what the "protest" could be - if they can't get funding and is under review and company XYZ offers to fund it, surely that is a good thing?

Rich
 
Royal navy cant spare 2 million a year on a historic ship, shows how badly our forces are under funded, and how little respect they get, its shocking realy.
 
Millwall.FC said:
Royal navy cant spare 2 million a year on a historic ship, shows how badly our forces are under funded, and how little respect they get, its shocking realy.
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why should the MOD fund a museum?:confused:

It's not like they;re shipping it abroad, as far as every visitor is concerned nothing will have changed...
 
HMS Victory costs a minimum of £1.5m to maintain and run each year, but that figure can go up when major work is needed.

Up to half a million people visit her at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard annually, with entrance fees divided up and shared between all the major attractions.
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So £1.5m minus ticket fees. They probably make 10 times that fining people who put their bins out at the wrong time.
 
Millwall.FC said:
note the "commissioned battleship" are you just argumentitive or what?
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Yes because when it comes to fight the ruskies over the last bit of oil we shall use it as our flag ship. :rolleyes:


It's a museum which the MOD would rather pass on to a private company to run, the Army has already gone through massive modernisation, we can't keep living in the past.
 
Muffin` said:
Yes because when it comes to fight the ruskies over the last bit of oil we shall use it as our flag ship. :rolleyes:


It's a museum which the MOD would rather pass on to a private company to run, the Army has already gone through massive modernisation, we can't keep living in the past.
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im just concerned that the royal navy are trying to off load victory because they are under funded.
 
Millwall.FC said:
note the "commissioned battleship" are you just argumentitive or what?
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:/

the big wooden ship with guided tours/mock cannons and set in concrete...

Yes it is a museum, it's a "commissioned battleship" just so it can have "oldest in the world" on the banner.

or are you just an idiot?


So £1.5m minus ticket fees. They probably make 10 times that fining people who put their bins out at the wrong time.
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I believe 1.5 million is the cost after the ticket fees have been deducted
 
Millwall.FC said:
im just concerned that the royal navy are trying to off load victory because they are under funded.
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But when it coems down to it actual active navy warships and the like are more important than one museum piece, if it comes down to it the 1.5 Mil should be used for advancing the navy not preserving the past - that is upto a private firm or museum.

Its not about being under-funded, its funds going where they really shouldn't go.

Rich
 
Millwall.FC said:
im just concerned that the royal navy are trying to off load victory because they are under funded.
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If you looked even at a super power like the Russians you will truley see what underfunded is, you could argue they are underfunded because they didn't get three new Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier but two. It's just sensible to pass it off onto a company which will free up cash for them.
 
Millwall.FC said:
im just concerned that the royal navy are trying to off load victory because they are under funded.
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the MoD are not under funded, they haemorrhage money left right and centre.
£1.5mil is pennies to them, but the flagship serves no noticable purpose to the Navy.
Why shouldnt they pass it over to a private company who can run it as a museam(the navy isnt here to run museums for us.) so the best can be had from the ship.
That whole article is aload of rubbish to stir up some slating of the Navy tbh, its a joke.
The ships not going to be much use to the Navy when they get up and leave Portsmouth and go to Plymouth - theres some comments about that which are quite funny too, that full webpage reaks of ignorance
 
Maccy said:
It never moves from there anyway, can't see a massive problem tbh.
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True, but who owns it is critical, it is part of our heritage and symbolises the age of dominance that our Navy had and one of greatest victories, that in turn helped support the empire we had at the time. 1.5 million is not a lot to pay for such a symbol when billions are wasted in government.
Some things should not be sold, what next, Big Ben, Parliament?
 
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