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Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS Manchester, a veteran of the first Gulf War, returned to her Portsmouth home for the last time yesterday, 17 February 2011.
I bet the scrapyards are buying them for a quid. With all the trouble in the world we'll be defending ourselves with carving knives fastened to sweeping brush handles.
True enough, episode I saw the crew were restricted to minimum fresh water as the salt water filter thingy was broke. One of the engines was broke, they had to load supplies by hand as the crane thingy was broke. I'm sure the yank coast guard people on board were unimpressed, surprised the ship made it back to blighty.
Oh by the way the usual chubby sailor who'es child like views of the world we have to listen to is this time female, apart from that the usual cliches.