Royal Navy destroyers go up for sale as preservation bid sunk

Three of the Royal Navy’s former destroyers have been put up for sale as plans to keep one of them as a museum ship look dead in the water.

Ex-HMS Edinburgh, York and Gloucester have been laid up in Portsmouth naval base since they were decommissioned from 2011 onwards.

Naval veterans with a fondness for the Type 42 destroyers had hoped Edinburgh could be preserved in Scotland as a museum 
ship.

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