HMS Monmouth takes last voyage to Turkish breaker's yard

Farewell HMS Monmouth – first of the Type 23 frigates to be scrapped is towed away

The first of the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigates to be disposed of, the former HMS Monmouth, was towed out of Portsmouth this morning to be scrapped in Turkey. Conceived as a Cold War submarine hunter, HMS Monmouth was the sixth ship of the class and was built by Yarrow shipbuilders on the Clyde, commissioning […] The post Farewell HMS Monmouth – first of the Type 23 frigates to be scrapped is towed away first appeared on Navy Lookout.

HMS Monmouth takes last voyage to Turkish breaker's yard

THERE was sadness this morning (April 3) as the former HMS Monmouth was towed out of Portsmouth on its last voyage to be scrapped in Turkey.