Pounds scrapyard, Portsmouth

[soranman]

I found a video of the LARC at Hunstanton. This one was used during the Vietnam war, and the paint job is original from that time apparently.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovYqfvnIms[/ame]

 

[graybags]

Pounds

looking at google earth, seems like there's only a couple of LARC's left

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[sheffieldbloke]

Larc

A LARC for sale on ebay
250474776962

 

[Potter]

Awesome stuff.

I see one of the boats still has an inflatable life boat.

 

[Mercury]

So, is this place actully worth visting now? Or has everything interesing pretty much all gone?

 

[diehardlove]

thats amazing nice work mate

 

[Flexible]

I used to work in Southhampton and occasionally Portsmouth in 1988 and passed this yard regularly on the flyover. There must have been about a dozen subs piled up in there back then and I always wanted to go and have a nose around. Never got around to it though and the guys I worked with used to say I was some sort of nutcase

 

[fatdeeman]

Is this the remains of HMS handy then?

Bit late but no, it's the picture below that one. This thing was some kind of concrete barge or jetty that's had the lid ripped off.