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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/aircraft-carrier-auctioned-on-web.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="HMS Invincible is being auctioned on the Government site" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-aircraft-carrier-auctioned-on-web.jpg" alt="HMS Invincible is being auctioned on the Government site"/></a></p>
<p>Several bids have been received for a Royal Navy aircraft carrier which was put up for sale on a Government version of the eBay auction website, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.</p>
<p>HMS Invincible was decommissioned in 2005, 28 years after it was launched by the Queen.</p>
<p>The Portsmouth-based ship, which served in the Falklands War, was put into a state of &#8220;low level of readiness&#8221; until last year when it was put on sale through the MoD&#8217;s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&#038;S) arm.</p>
<p>The advert on the edisposals.com website, which expired on Wednesday, stated: &#8220;HMS Invincible is for sale by tender.</p>
<p>&#8220;Laid down in 1973 at Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness, she was completed in 1980. She is currently stable for tow, subject to buyer confirmation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The carrier, which has had its engines and other parts salvaged, is expected to be sold for scrap metal.</p>
<p>The website states that it has a metal weight of 10,000 tonnes and experts have estimated the ship could sell for about £2 million.</p>
<p>An MoD spokesman said: &#8220;We are considering a number of bids but we cannot say any more until there has been a full consideration. We will announce a preferred bidder subject to them meeting required terms and conditions. The ship has been substantially stripped down for spares and has been in storage for some time.&#8221;</p>
<p>There has been a campaign for the ship to be saved as a museum to shipbuilding in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, where it was built but the MoD spokesman said it was most likely to be sold for scrap.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t have any engines so its most likely fate will be recycling, it would be very surprising if that wasn&#8217;t the case.&#8221;</p>
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