Fantastic views in Portsmouth harbour, for how long!

[rhumlady]

when the Navy required steel to build a 'whole body radiation monitor' ( a steel room about 8' square built from steel about 15" thick with a lid of the same stuff) they had to go and buy it from the breakers of the Vanguard as the steel needed had to have been smelted prior to the atomic testing age, ie the Manhatten project. I believe they paid as much for the stuff as they got for the ship. The steel came from the armour plating and was cut to size and machined with no hot work done so no contamination was introduced.,

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

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when the Navy required steel to build a 'whole body radiation monitor' ( a steel room about 8' square built from steel about 15" thick with a lid of the same stuff) they had to go and buy it from the breakers of the Vanguard as the steel needed had to have been smelted prior to the atomic testing age, ie the Manhatten project. I believe they paid as much for the stuff as they got for the ship. The steel came from the armour plating and was cut to size and machined with no hot work done so no contamination was introduced.,

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Non irradiated thick high quality steel is quite valuable and usually exists as a Historic Wreck or Protected War Grave. there is a fair resource in Scapa Flow as well, although the divers may object to what's left of the High Sees Fleet being lifted and scrapped!