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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Barrow-built destroyer to be scuttled?

A Barrow-built fighting ship which the Argentineans couldn’t sink during the Falklands War looks set to have met its match.

But instead of being sunk by the enemy, HMS Cardiff looks set for oblivion thanks to its own countrymen.

For the Type 42 destroyer is poised to become a seabed grotto, languishing in Davy Jones’s Locker for generations of divers to explore its Barrow craftsmanship, and for marine life to live in.

HMS Cardiff is one of three withdrawn Type 42 destroyers being earmarked to help create a 12-ship super reef off the south coast of England.

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