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from Wikipedia - USS Orleck (DD-886), is a Gearing-class destroyer that was in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1982. In October 1982 she was sold to Turkey and renamed Yücetepe (D 345). After her final decommissioning the Turkish government transferred Yücetepe to the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation at Orange, Texas, where she was berthed as a museum ship. The Orleck Foundation then decided to move the ship to the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles, Louisiana. On 26 March 2022, she arrived in Jacksonville, FL, where she served as a Naval Museum on the downtown riverfront until 3 April 2023, when she docked to its permanent home at the Shipyards West.
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HMS ARK ROYAL at HM Naval Base Portsmouth on June 04, 2012.
Also present was the decommissioned type 42 destroyer HMS LIVERPOOL at Portsmouth Dockyard on June 04, 2012.
HMS LIVERPOOL decommissioned on March 30, 2012.
HMS ARK ROYAL decommissioned March 11, 2011
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HMS ARK ROYAL (R07) was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy.
She was the third and final vessel of the Invincible class. She was built by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne and launched by them in 1981. ARK ROYAL was christened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She followed sister ships HMS INVINCIBLE and HMS ILLUSTROUS into service in 1985.
Affectionately known as The Mighty Ark, she was the fifth Royal Navy ship to have borne the name of the 1587 flagship that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Originally intended to be named INDOMITABLE to match the rest of the class, this was changed due to the public reaction to the loss of the Ark Royal name after the scrapping of the previous Ark Royal in 1980, after 30 years' service.
Slightly larger than her sister ships, and with a steeper ski-jump ramp, ARK ROYAL carried the STOVL (short take off and vertical landing) Harrier jump jet aircraft, as well as various helicopters.
With a crew complement of over 1,000 sailors and aviators, she saw active service in the 1990s Bosnian War and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
Originally due to be retired in 2016, Ark Royal was instead decommissioned on March 11, 2011, as part of the Navy restructuring portion of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
After Ark Royal's decommissioning, HMS ALBION replaced her as the Royal Navy flagship.
ARK ROYAL was sold for scrap to the Turkish company Leyal Ship Recycling and left Portsmouth in May 2013.
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