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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

MOD scraps ice patrol ship HMS Endurance

HMS EnduranceThe Royal Navy's former ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is to be scrapped after the Ministry of Defence decided the cost of repairing the vessel, which flooded off the coast of Chile in 2008, was too great.

The move comes as three former Type 22 frigates are set to be towed from Portsmouth Naval Base to the Leyal Ship Recycling centre in Turkey - the same scrapyard which bought the Ark Royal aircraft carrier.

A fourth frigate is also to be taken to the Swansea Drydocks to be dismantled.

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