{"id":99000,"date":"2026-03-05T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99000"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:38:37","slug":"britains-scrap-iron-armada-tonight-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/britains-scrap-iron-armada-tonight-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Britain&#8217;s &#8216;Scrap Iron Armada'&#8221; | <em>Tonight<\/em> (1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWgVqbbrXfg?si=tXXLY2DvCkr1oryY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 10 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A ship that&#8217;s built to withstand shell fire is no pushover in the breaker&#8217;s yard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alan Whicker reports on the fate of obsolete naval warships, which are lying in bays around the country waiting to be scrapped or sold. Among this &#8220;scrap iron armada&#8221; is the <em>Leviathan<\/em> (R97) &mdash; a mammoth \u00a36 million aircraft carrier &mdash; that has never sailed. It was abandoned, approximately 80 percent complete, in 1946 after the war ended.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from <em>Tonight<\/em>, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 19 March, 1962.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Archive Published 10 Nov 2025 &#8220;A ship that&#8217;s built to withstand shell fire is no pushover in the breaker&#8217;s yard.&#8221; Alan Whicker reports on the fate of obsolete naval warships, which are lying in bays around the country waiting to be scrapped or sold. Among this &#8220;scrap iron armada&#8221; is the Leviathan (R97) &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,663],"tags":[311,108,30,61],"class_list":["post-99000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-1960s","tag-coldwar","tag-navy","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pKM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99001,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99000\/revisions\/99001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}