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HMS Volage

Believe it or not, these twisted remains are the former Type 15 frigate HMS Volage. Seen at Pounds Shipbreakers Portsmouth 25/07/09.

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Folks, just some earlier images of the Volage lying at Pounds. The frigate arrived at the Pounds yard in 1976.
http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=94993
http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=168559
http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=152034
 

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Before the recession, there was talk of developing the site, and with an Olympic size swimming pool built overlooking the Tipnor lake with the intent on encouraging and hosting an Olympic team for 2012, I imagine there will be pressure to finish off the hull and other bits of scrap.
 

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All the years I lived down there I never ceased to be amazed at how long they took to dispose of the vessels there. Sure I saw a Roman Centurion wandering among them one day.
 

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The last time I went past that breakers area (looking from the M275 coming out of Pompey)...about 5-6 years ago...there was a submarine or two tied up against each other, one leaning over.

Are they still there or have they long gone now?
 

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Both gone now, Otus (the one leaning over) went to Germany as a museum in 2005 and Oracle was resold for breaking in Aliaga, Turkey but foundered off Gibraltar 2004.
 

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Is this the same HMS Volage that was damaged by mines along with HMS Saumarez
in the Corfu Channel incident in 1946.?
I have visited the cemetery in Corfu and seen the graves of the crew who were lost.
What a sad end for a proud ship.

Alec.
 

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I am afraid "proud" and all that goes with it, is a word progressively removed from everyday use by British Governments of the past decade or so.
 

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Thanks for the update on the two subs, Steve, they were landmarks of a sort really, kind of 'yep, we have arrived in Pompey'. Sad end for many of the old vessels but at least one managed to get a second life as a museum.
 

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You would not have thought in today's world of river/estuary conservancy/protection that this would have been allowed to remain like this for so long, a sad end to a fine ship which in the austerity time's Post War had a fortune spent on her conversion, I was on the Eastbourne during an emergency docking at Chatham when a conversion/flush decking of a Destroyer was being carried out in the next dock and as far as I remember it was a complete removal of the top-sides as well as most of the machinery for o/haul or refurbished exchange from RNSPD
 

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