It is also used at Aliaga, Turkey and shipbreakers in Bangladesh and China. It is regarded as having the lowest worker safety of all methods.Īlang, India is famous (or infamous) for the beaching method. Invariably some percentage of the ship is lost in the process. It is also time-intensive and only suitable for shipbreakers with low labor cost.
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The beach ends up full of oil, smoking debris, and jagged pieces of metal. Obviously it is massively polluting as any liquids or debris on the ship go directly into the ocean. Other than being (by far) the cheapest method, beaching offers no other benefit. This November 2014 photo at Alang shows the beaching method, with the flight deck’s forward lip coming down.) It was purchased by India and completed to their specifications. (INS Vikrant was launched as HMS Hercules at the end of WWII but postwar Britain could not afford to complete it. As the ship lightens forward, tractors pull it in more, until the stern is accessed. The ship is then torched apart at low tide, chunk by chunk, with cut sections then dragged up the beach to allow the next chunk to be torched off. Here, a ship is intentionally run aground bow-first at the highest possible speed at high tide. This means the scrapper would have to sit on a ship bought at auction until then, increasing his exposure to metal prices dropping. As they are also needed for cargo lines and navies to maintain active ships, they are often booked months in advance. Drydocks are limited in number and expensive to rent, especially for shipbreakers operating on already paper-thin profit margins. For the reasons outlined below, multiple warships were often simultaneously scrapped in the same drydock.) (photo from Warship Boneyards by Kit Bonner) These destroyers went obsolete even as WWII was ongoing. (Clemson and Porter class destroyers being scrapped in a Philadelphia drydock a year after WWII ended. This method allowed 100% recovery of the ship and is also the “cleanest” method. Here the condemned WWII warship was put into drydock, then deconstructed from the top down. The original shipbreaker for this job went bankrupt, which happened with increased frequency in the 1990s and 2000s.) (photo by Robert Hurst) (The ex-USS Sphinx (ARL-24), a WWII repair ship, being scrapped in 2007 by Bay Bridge Enterprises. Zidell scrapped hundreds of WWII warships.) (A Mk15 triple 8″ gun turret yanked off a WWII cruiser by Zidell during the 1970s. Cut metal from other WWII warships fills the property of Portsmouth Salvage.) This aircraft carrier had been terribly damaged in 1945, repaired at great expense, but never again used. (The ex-USS Franklin (CV-13) being scrapped in 1966. However in the past I have described how WWII warships were preserved, how they were modernized, and how they were transferred between countries. I debated writing on this topic as it really doesn’t fit the theme of WWII weaponry being used after WWII.
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