Laid-up Warships
HMS Cumberland F85
Having entered her home base of Devonport on 18th April 2011, Royal Navy Type 22 'Broadsword' Class Frigate HMS Cumberland F85 is seen at Devonport on 26th June 2011, having been decommissioned just 3 days earlier. Hard to believe that this mighty frigate had been involved in evacuating British civilians from Libya effected by the civil war just a few months earlier. Launched in 1986, HMS Cumberland was a victim of the 2010 Defence Review, and in July 2013 was sold to Leyal Recycling in Turkey for scrapping, a warship that certainly had years of life still ahead of her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHoalkcJMY
HMS Diligence A132
RFA Diligence A132 is a Forward Repair Ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and we see Diligence following laying-up at Portsmouth Naval Base on 15th July 2017. Formerly the MV Stena Inspector, she was completed in 1981 by Oesundsvarvet and served in the Falklands War in 1982 as a support ship. Following the Falklands, she was purchased for the RFA / RN and was laid-up in 2016. With a displacement of 10,595 tons she carried a RFA / RN crew of 140 and is currently at Portsmouth pending possible future sale. With HMS Illustrious, HMS Plymouth and HMS Onyx now scrapped, she is one of the few vessels to remain from the Falklands War.