03-12-2016 21:07 via theguardian.com

Time running out to save Britain’s U-boat hunter from scrapyard

HMS President, which saw action in the first world war, may have to be broken up if £3m to repair its hull cannot be foundHMS President has survived U-boat attacks, bombing raids, London smog and even parties of marauding Made In Chelsea stars.Yet now the submarine hunter, one of three that remain from the Royal Navy’s first world war fleet and the only one that fought in the first battle of the Atlantic, is destined to be scrapped unless its custodians can find £3m before Janu
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