Anyone here work on HMS Invincible...

sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

or know someone who does or did between 25/06/85 - 19/08/85?

The Artist · Super Spammer Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Karma :

I am intrigued.

Any reason why you are asking this?

TUG · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 May 2007 Karma :

Banned Again · Trackday Trickster Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Karma :

Straws of the grab .. ffs ... desperate shag ... ! Rolling Eyes

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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

CptBlack · Trackday Trickster Joined: 06 Dec 2009 Karma :

HMS Invincible is mothballled at the moment so there are very few people on there. You could try here:

https://www.rncom.mod.uk/Advice_Desk/AdviceDesk.aspx

and here is the best RN forum for the UK, definitely worth looking at and will probably have some people who served on her then:
https://www.navy-net.co.uk/

Phoenix · Twisted Firestarter Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Karma :

Wildgoose was on the Invincible I think, but about 20 years later...

truslack · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Karma :

chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

My cousin was on the Invincible for a few years I think, around 2000, he used to maintain harriers. Not sure that it is any help mind Laughing

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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Truslack

I already have the unit history for it. What we need to find out is why there was a liveried Land Rover at all. There are no known photos of it in service and it turns out Military Vehicle historians have been searching for it for some time, it was believed to be some kind of forces myth that it existed.

The only way it seems we will find out the why of this vehicle is to speak to people who were onboard at the time.

Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Could it have been used to ferry amunition at all ?...

Don't know wether you've got this link/info Pup, last but one paragraph on the bottom right...https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enGB316GB316&q=Land+Rover+HMS+Invincible+Navy+Livery...
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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Can't see what you are pointing at, just a google page to me?

Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Sorry...https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1978/1978%20-%203003.html...

Or if that's still knackered, it's the fifth link down...
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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Can't open that page on this laptop, doesn't like PDF's for some reason. Will try later on a different computer. Thank you.

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

See below as I've just edited this instead of quoting it and lost what I originally wrote here ffs !...
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sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

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What's so important about this rover then ... ? Rolling Eyes

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TUG · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 May 2007 Karma :

Banned Again · Trackday Trickster Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Karma :

Read the thread you lazy cunt,would of sufficed ... ! Sad

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Handsome · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Karma :

Imperial War Museum...IWM.ORG.UK...

Pup, the other half reckons you may have a bit more luck with that link as I've just spoken to her about it and that's the one she suggested as they'd have more extensive archives...

She's also suggested it may have been to ferry dignitaries from whichever port it was stationed at to the ship and back...Royal visits and such...Also it may be liveried if it was ever stationed in or around Hong Kong as they make a big thing of it over there, so it may have been a show vehicle if you like, or it may have just been to move things around the port it was at at the time and that's it...

What's the actual Livery on it ?...Just Royal Navy, or a coat of arms ?...And if it is a myth that only two were done as you've mentioned surely a phone call to the above should raise someones ears if it's that notable...

I'm getting curious myself now ( More so than who got the Queen Vic ) so find out ffs and let me know Laughing

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CptBlack · Trackday Trickster Joined: 06 Dec 2009 Karma :

Do you know its purpose? Obviously not operational, could it be related to recruitment, or a specific publicity stunt? Some sort of charity thing funded by Invincible, or her crew at the time?

Just throwing a few ideas out there, may be avenues to look down,

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