HMS Illustrious Heads To The Scrapyard | Forces TV 

Farewell Lusty, thank you for taking my dad to sea and bringing him home safe every time.

What a sad end to a great ship. We should have kept it in service with a flight of harriers until HMS Queen Elizabeth/Prince of Wales are commissioned.

An utter waste of a wondrous ship...politicians need to stay away from defence

when will this country learn!! would should have turned into a floating Museum.. so sad to see her follow so many great ships to a breaksyard in the third world.. the ships deserve better.

You have to say she looked no less effective and efficient going to the breakers as the day she was launched, which is a great testament to the designers and the people who maintained her. I don't think you can pay a bigger compliment really. She looks just as good as the latest LPH type vessels entering service now around the world, better in many respects really.

My Great Grandad served on the HMS Illustrious during WW2 when it was bombed by the Luftwaffe and was crippled, but did not sink.

5 years later, I still can’t believe they threw such a magnificent ship

I have a picture of her in 2015, in full just before scrapping, i miss her

GOODBYE OLD GIRL..........

It saddens me to see the history incarnate in HMS Illustrious not made into a museum ship and preserved for posterity. Farewell.

she reached and offers help to my country before retiring. salamat

get rid of the pen pushers and save the ships

Hands down, the pommy's will always be the ruler of the waves. From. Australia

First ship was Victorious in 1966-68 real carrier put out of service by politicians before her time

this should be a museum ship.

Beautiful ship and class

I feel sad for the skip man that needs to take that away...

Shame, my dad served on Lusty and I was looking forward to seeing the ship and my dad showing me everything but no, some politicians wanted a new holiday home😪

It is quite sad to see an aircraft carrier named after one of my favourite WWII aircraft carrier going to the scrap her but she suffered the same date as the World War II illustrious who was scrapped in the back end of the 1950s after she was sold to India she had a long life and I hope in the future we get another aircraft carrier named illustrious but for now I just wish we could have kept it

May she rust in pieces. Good old Rusty Lusty

Grandad was on her when she was the Illustrious ww2

Built at swan hunter wallend.i was on her launch day

we should scrap them in UK as the cost would be the same and we need the jobs.

A sad loss should have gone to the RFA to use they have ships a lot older that they still have to use ! Fucking Gov.

I've been onboard x

another great ship distgustingly scrapped what a waste of a loverly ship please please do not waste any more ships .

NOOOOOO weve tried to buy it for 4 years... doc johnny mercy shps intl

Didn’t the British government said they would preserve this ship? Well, they lied. RIP Illustrious, one day another will take up this honorable name.

I'd Get the Point Of The Royal navy But Lusty Is the one who we Would Need.

She was sold for scrap for £2.1m. That seems ludicrously cheap given that houses in london - houses! - are approaching that price.

The guy at 3.29 said that there is nothing like serving on an aircraft carrier. I would totally agree. As a Bootneck in the 1960's I served a complete commission on board H.M.S. Centaur, a light fleet carrier of about 27 thousand tons displacement. I really loved it, and of course that was the last decade of the daily issue of pusser's rum. Happy days, with some epic runs ashore of course. The only duty that was a real pig of a job was 4 months watch keeping as lifebuoy ghost at sea, and Cpl. of the gangway when tied up alongside. Lifebuoy ghost involved pacing up and down the quarter deck for four hours, and you weren't allowed to sit down, smoke or read a book. The middle watch was the killer, you didn't see a soul for the whole four hours. Cpl. of the gangway in harbour was easy by comparison.

she was a gud gurl

Como le fue al ilusorios con nosotros, o fue el invencible que les dañamos ??

It sucks Britain never keep any of capital ships as museum...

Sayang naman kung maging junk na lang...napakamahal ng barko, sayang naman..pwede po bang donate na lang sa amin ?

THEY COULD HAVE UPGRADED THE SHIP AND MADE IT ANOTHER CARRIER WITH THE F35C

our country was way way way way too vulnerable while we didn't have an aircraft carrier, they shud of kept em in service till Queen Elizabeth Class, all it was was another 5 or so years, the Gerald R Ford Class have a Life of 50 Years! not 32!

My uncle was on this

SAD.

I hope they took all the radio equipment off?

What a drag. Given how many former RN frigates & destroyers are in service in South America, and Pakistan I think, I wonder if Chile, or Brazil, or Peru maybe, considered buying this ship, as a helicopter/Marine Amphibious type vessel.

2:37 This gentleman should play the role of Obi Wan Kenobi in a future Star Wars film.

This is a disgrace

So sad

farewell Lusty...served 3 years on you 2L2 mess. sad to say bye ;-(

should of scrapped the torie party

Press F in chat for Lusty Poor sweet Lusty

terrible waste of a good ship.i am not surprised. they got away scrapping the Olympic and maurentania in the 30s, I just hope the ss united states can be saved.

I look forward to eating the bake beans from the tin made out of this ship. At least the RN are having some proper carriers as replacements haha

Would it had killed those cheapskate political bean counters to save at least ONE of your great ships!!!?? Dreadnought Vanguard Illustrious and or any one of the dozens upon dozens that went to the breakers.

Sell it to canada, the'll buy anyone's junk.