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Friday, January 09, 2009

Farewell to luckiest ship

They had to wait an extra hour for HMS Glasgow to leave the harbour, but that only gave her old crew more time to chat about their miracle escape.

A huddle of Falklands veterans told jokes as they stood freezing on Portsmouth's Round Tower to see off the Type 42 destroyer toasted as one of the world's luckiest ships.

She is bound for the scrapheap in Turkey, following fellow destroyers HMS Cardiff and HMS Newcastle last month.

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