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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Chinese bid for UK carrier fails

HMS Invincible (R-05)Britain has rejected a 5 million pound (US$8 million) bid for a junked aircraft carrier from a UK-based Chinese businessman.

The offer was more than double the expected price but Lam Kin-bong, from south China's Guangdong Province, said yesterday he was told he had "failed to provide all the necessary information."

The light aircraft carrier HMS Invincible was decommissioned in 2005 and stripped of engines and weapons.

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