Flexible crane for sale

[Tennentslager]

Thought JS might like this.

not sure of the load capacity but might save on some scaffolding or for you guys with limited site access....

https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/witham/catalogue-id-witham10019/lot-2f141643-0e0c-4c81-b01f-a6390103d717?utm_source=bs-fa-06072016&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MoD&utm_content=image

[Jeremy Harris]

I wonder where that one's been hiding? 

They went out of service at least 30 or more years ago, I think.  I did my first ever torpedo CA release trials sitting in the left seat of a Wasp, in 1978, from HMS Leander out on the torpedo range that used to be in Falmouth Bay.  With a Mk42 torpedo fitted (slung underneath at an angle as that was the only way to carry it) the endurance was terrifyingly short, something like 20 mins plus reserves.  Doing trials at sea meant never being far away from the ship, for fear that you'd not have enough fuel to get back to it................

[Triassic]

A bit of history

XV625 : RN d/d May68 829 Sq Phoebe Flt/471-PB Nov 1968 to Dec +  
To RNEC Manadon by Apr 1984 until at least 1992  
To RNAS Culdrose early 1995; to A2735 Lee-on-Solent by +  
Sep13 declared to DSA for sale  
20oct14 on sale by MoD-Sales  

[Jeremy Harris]

Interesting, thanks.

Looks like it was an engineering officer training airframe at Manadon post-retirement, then, and probably also used as an engineering training airframe at Lee.  Not sure what it was doing at Culdrose in between, perhaps just in storage (I left Culdrose in 1991).

Probably not a candidate for a return to flying service privately under a PtF, as I doubt any of the work done when it was an engineering training hack was properly recorded.  Spares are probably thin on the ground, too, as it's been out of service for so long.