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Pictured: HMS Albion.

Retired Royal Navy ship HMS Albion set for 'disposal'

Partial replacements for HMS Bulwark and HMS Albion have been announced by defence secretary Dan Jarvis. The former has been sold to Brazil.

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HMS Bulwark is being sold to Brazil for a figure reported to be a fraction of the cost of refitting her.

Cost of retiring two former Royal Navy ships laid bare

HMS Albion’s sale to Brazil has been put on ice. An agreement was finalised to sell HMS Bulwark, but her sister Royal Navy ship still faces an uncertain future.

HMS Albion sale on ice - Bulwark sold to claw back taxpayer cash

Royal Navy Amphibious Flagship, HMS Bulwark, sailing into Gibraltar on September 24, 2016. for the ship's first port visit of the Royal Navy's inaugural Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) Task Group deployment, joining RFA Mounts Bay and MV Eddystone already in harbour.

Contemplative memories of HMS Bulwark after ship sold to Brazil

HMS Ocean, Landing Platform Helicopter and former Royal Navy flagship, was decommissioned at a ceremony on March 27, 2018, with the late Queen Elizabeth II attending the ceremony. The warship was sold to Brazil.

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HMS Bulwark is expected to be taken over by the Brazilian Navy soon after being sold, reports said.

Brazil to "take over" HMS Bulwark after ship decommissioned and sold

HMS Albion, alongside fellow Albion-class landing platform HMS Bulwark, are most likely being sold to Brazil after a “statement of intent” was signed between the UK and South American nation.

"Statement of intent" signed to sell HMS Albion and Bulwark to Brazil

HMS Albion, an Albion-class landing platform, is due to be sold alongside HMS Bulwark to Brazil, with talks for the Royal Navy ships reaching advanced stages.

Debate shadows Royal Navy ships being sold to Brazil

Two former Royal Navy flagships HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark could be sold to Brazil with talks progressing.

"Unseaworthy" Royal Navy ships could be sold - talks at advanced stage

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HMS Bulwark, which served as the Royal Navy flagship, could be sold to Brazil after being retired from the service fleet.

Retired HMS Bulwark could be sold to Brazil as talks begin - report

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Site of passenger plane crash which killed all 61 aboard.

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Avon is looking to bolster its business by opening physical stores in the UK for the first time. Picture: Avon/PA Wire.

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Terminator star Linda Hamilton will be joining the Stranger Things season five cast.

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Supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with the police during a demonstration outside the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. - Brazilian police used tear gas Sunday to repel hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro after they stormed onto Congress grounds one week after President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's inauguration, an AFP photographer witnessed. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Vinicius Junior, second from left, celebrates with Raphinha, Lucas Paqueta and Neymar after scoring Brazil's first goal in their 4-1 win against South Korea Picture: Michael Steele/Getty Images

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Former Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo. (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Brazil’s Covid death rate has risen to the second highest in the world (Photo: Shutterstock)

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