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Warships which have earned place in our heritage
It might be too late for HMS Intrepid, but the Save our Ships campaign aims to protect other warships from a similar fate.
The News is lobbying for a change in conservation laws which would see ships 'listed' like buildings.
One ship whose fate is undecided is HMS Stalker, pictured below, a Second World War landing ship at Pounds Marine Shipping in Tipner, Portsmouth.
Despite being one of 300 ships in the National Historic Fleet, her bow doors have recently been cut off to protect trespassers in case they get trapped in the vessel at high tide and drown.
But campaigners are currently powerless to stop the ship from being dismantled.
Martyn Heighton, head of National Historic Ships which is lobbying the government, said: 'Stalker is a classic example of why we are trying to get ships included in the new bill, because there is nothing legally that we can do. She has several important heritage features.
'I accept that the owners will see a scrap value in the ship, and we wouldn't want to deprive them of the financial asset, but we have to balance that with the heritage of an area.'
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