HMS Portland had not left harbour since 2018 and has only been at sea for 41 days in the last four yearsCredit: PA:Press Association
The SUN: HIGH & DRY Royal Navy’s most powerful warships spend year stuck in port with maintenance problems
TWO of the Royal Navy’s most powerful warships have spent the past year stuck in port with maintenance problems, defence chiefs have admitted.
The £1billion Type 45 destroyers have been docked in Portsmouth while Russia steps up its hostile presence around British waters.
HMS Daring has not spent a single day at sea since 2017, when it sailed for a total of just 85 days.
Its 8,000-ton sister ship HMS Duncan was also confined to Portsmouth for the whole of 2020.
Navy chiefs discovered problems with the engines of the six Type 45 destroyers in 2016 but it has taken taken years to solve the issue.
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WNU Editor: This is a sobering stat .... Latest MoD figures show all six destroyers spent a total of 339 days at sea for the whole of 2020.
Thats a lie, Defender recently won a bunch of awards and Dragon had recently visited Romania in the Black Sea. These two ships are very active, as for the other Four, well we have to keep inmind that the UK military is geared for defense not offence.
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