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Ooh I dunno. Zero feedback.
Mmmm, a bit of Fiber-Fix, a lick of paint, and Brexitannia can be a mighty sea power again.
LOL 'Collection Only'
Leaving aside the 'its not for salvage' element of the sale, is there still much of a market for the metal that hasn't been contaminated by the radiation of nukes?
Buy it, declare it private / off limits and then quietly squirrel away big chunks to sell 🙂
Most of the wrecks were salvaged in the 20s and 30s - it’s quite an interesting story (to me anyway!)
http://www.scapaflowwrecks.com/history/salvage.php
is there still much of a market for the metal that hasn’t been contaminated by the radiation of nukes?
Useful for making radiation detection equipment if guess - difficult to make sensitive equipment with metal that itself is radioactive. Not that the world needs lots of radiation detection equipment but it will need it for a long, long time.
At least until we have Ray Cats that is
Well I've been inside all of those wrecks and they were good dives, but I wouldn't pay £250,000 for the privilege.
I'm fascinated by this especially as my Grandad was in HMS Southampton and was demobbed just a few months before the fleet was scuttled, it's a pity he missed it as I have his diary. I've got the book Cox's Navy about the Wolverhampton scrap metal merchant Ernest Cox who bought the fleet from the Admiralty and salvaged most of the ships but thanks to a sudden drop in the value of scrap after the war he ony just covered his costs.
Mrs Gti used to do some quite necky diving in Scotland and has stood on some of the wrecks, which she says are absolutely massive.
Not sure why they've included those pitcures cos they sure as hell didn't look like that 20 years ago and suspect they're even worse now.
suspect they’re even worse now.
I was there about 15 years ago and they were starting to fail.
By all accounts, they are a lot worse now and some people estimate in about 10 years they will be piles of scrap.
This is one of the best books on the scuttling.