A HISTORIC Navy destroyer yesterday left Britain for the last time to be sold for scrap in Turkey after a campaign to turn it into tourist attraction in Edinburgh ended in failure.
It had been hoped that HMS Edinburgh, the last of the Royal Navy’s Type 42 destroyers, would find a new home in Leith.
But after proposed costs for the venture were deemed too high, the ship – the largest in its class – was sold to a Turkish scrap merchant, a fate which befell her sister ships, HMS Manchester and HMS Liverpool.
Maritime enthusiasts and members of the Navy gathered yesterday afternoon to bid the 463ft vessel a final farewell as it set sail from Portsmouth.
Known as the ‘Fortress of the Sea’, the ship – built in 1980 by the Cammell Laird yard at Birkenhead, Merseyside – was deployed to the Gulf in 2003 during the Iraq war, escorting helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and supporting Royal Marines ashore. She underwent a £17.5million refit in 2010 but was decommissioned three years later. http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/hms-edinburgh-sets-sail-for-scrap-in-turkey-1-3857179
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It had been hoped that HMS Edinburgh, the last of the Royal Navy’s Type 42 destroyers, would find a new home in Leith.
But after proposed costs for the venture were deemed too high, the ship – the largest in its class – was sold to a Turkish scrap merchant, a fate which befell her sister ships, HMS Manchester and HMS Liverpool.
Maritime enthusiasts and members of the Navy gathered yesterday afternoon to bid the 463ft vessel a final farewell as it set sail from Portsmouth.
Known as the ‘Fortress of the Sea’, the ship – built in 1980 by the Cammell Laird yard at Birkenhead, Merseyside – was deployed to the Gulf in 2003 during the Iraq war, escorting helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and supporting Royal Marines ashore. She underwent a £17.5million refit in 2010 but was decommissioned three years later. http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/hms-edinburgh-sets-sail-for-scrap-in-turkey-1-3857179
Source: http://www.scotsman.com
Views here : Mumbai Scrap yard and Scrap Dealers in Mumbai
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