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Friday, October 25, 2013

HMS Cornwall sails for scrapyard

HMS CornwallHMS Cornwall – once the Duchy’s Royal Navy flagship – today began her final voyage heading for a scrapyard in Wales.

The Type-22 frigate, built in 1985 and commissioned at Falmouth in 1988 by Diana, Princess of Wales, was being towed from Portsmouth this morning, bound for Swansea.

The 5,300-tonne, former Plymouth-based vessel is the only one of her class being broken in the UK, with her sister ships Chatham, Campbeltown and Cumberland having being sold to the Leyal Ship Recycling centre in Turkey – the same scrapyard which bought the Ark Royal aircraft carrier.

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