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The Current State of HMS Bronington - though now long out of service - sums up the current tragic state of the Royal Navy:

Attempts to save the former Minesweeper were dashed at the end of last year when the HMS Bronington Preservation Trust's attempt to get lottery funding to restore her, failed...

HMS Bronington is a former Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, once commanded by Prince Charles. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper was one of the last of the wooden-hulled naval vessels. Decommissioned in 1988, she was subsequently a museum ship, but sank at Birkenhead in 2016.

There are around five surviving Ton Class vessels, some in a very poor state.  HMS Bronington is the sole surviving wooden built version in the UK... the only glass fiber version HMS Wilton was fitted out as the new home of the Essex Yacht Club at Leigh-on-Sea on the Thames Estuary in 2001.

After being decommissioned from service, the ship was purchased in January 1989 by the Bronington Trust, a registered charity whose patron is the King. For some time, the ship was berthed in the Manchester Ship Canal at Trafford Park and was open to visitors for ten years. On 11 July 2002, she became part of the collection of the Warship Preservation Trust and was moored at Birkenhead, Merseyside. After the closure of the Warship Preservation Trust, she remained in storage, formerly alongside the Rothesay-class frigate HMS Plymouth at Vittoria Dock, and latterly in the West Float of Birkenhead Docks.

She is currently sunk at Vittoria Dock and rotting away...

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For reasons of pure nostalgia, I have a copy of "Janes Fighting Ships 1967-1968.  I "Acquired" it when my first ship, HMS Aisne, went to scrap.  Here are a couple of pages from the beginning of the "Royal Navy" entry.  My god folks, how far have we fallen?