Sun, 21 Dec 2003
From the classified ads column
Someone's selling an aircraft carrier on eBay.
It appears to be the 17,500-ton Colossus Class light fleet
carrier HMS Vengeance, most recently used by the Indian navy
as a helicopter carrier and refitted with an angled flight
deck after the second world war. The minimum bid is US $6.5M,
with an instant sale for offers over $8M,
and you'll probably want at least double that to get it even
remotely seaworthy -- it's not exactly in good shape.
My alter-ego the Evil Overlord is counting his filthy lucre
and speculating about the cost of buying a brace of Sea
Harriers and setting out to conquer a small Pacific atoll
for use as his Island Base ... although he'd rather own
the
current HMS Vengeance, if given the chance: what's the
point in being Evil Overlord if you don't have any
weapons
of mass destruction?.
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