The British Royal Navy's former flagship HMS Ark Royal, a light aircraft carrier with a weight of 22,000 tons, sailed from Portsmouth on Monday, May 20, heading to Turkey where she will be scrapped. She was the third and final vessel of Invincible-class.
As part of a £2.9 million ($4.38 million) deal, Ark Royal will go to the same yard that took its sister ship Invincible. Izmir, Aliaga-based Turkish ship dismantler LEYAL Ship Recycling Ltd had also scrapped Invincible back in 2011, obtaining more than 10,000 mt of ferrous scrap.
