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The 'Protug 87' left Portsmouth, UK, on June 11, towing the destroyer HMS 'Bristol' (IMO: 4907828) to Aliaga, ETA 2.7. HMS Bristol is the only Type 82 ship still in existence and saw nearly 48 years of active service. Having been decommissioned in October 2020, she is now enroute for recycling at an EU-approved yard. Veterans and members of the public gathered to give a “respectful farewell” to the ship as it was towed out of the harbour. Construction on the HMS 'Bristol' began in 1967 and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy on March 31, 1973. She fought in the 1982 Falklands War and then used as a training ship for the Dartmouth Training Squadron from 1987. Since 2011, she has lived adjacent to Navy Command Headquarters on Whale Island, Portsmouth. During this time, she provided accommodation for multiple youth organisations including the Sea Cadets, Combined Cadet Forces and the Sea Scouts. The ship was sold by experts from the DRDT, on the behalf of the Royal Navy. HMS 'Bristol' is the second decommissioned ship to be towed for recycling this calendar year, with HMS 'Monmouth' having departed in April. Reports with photos: https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/falklands-war-ship-sent-to-turkiye-for-recycling/ https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/royal-navy-hms-bristol-falklands-ship-scrapped-5171418

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Less than a year after it was abandoned off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, the 'Med Sea Eagle' delivered military equipment to a Libyan strongman, leaked documents revealed. The ship’s then-owners abandoned it in June 2023, and conditions grew so dire that one crew member attempted to commit suicide. In summer 2024, a company that chartered the vesselallegedly bribed its crew to deliver high-speed boats and military tactical vehicles to Libya, according to leaked emails written by the ship’s owner. The ship was sold to the Turkey-based Sea Lion Shipping Co in late 2022. The company ran into financial trouble soon after it bought the vessel, and abandoned it along with its crew in June 2023. The crew wasn’t paid for months and ran short of food, water and medicine. Some crew members began to panic. One took a potentially lethal dose of painkillers and was taken ashore to a hospital for medical treatment by Emirati authorities and then forced to return to the dismal conditions aboard the 'Med Sea Eagle'. The Sea Lion Shipping’s website is defunct.