.. it's factual though that there's presently at least seven of them rotting away at Rosyth: less than twenty miles from me.

Sorry you, as my Filipino friends used to say. I was hoping it was somewhere like in a deepest rift of the ocean. Tbh I don't remember the details of the conversation, with our RN punter. Hence me zeroing in on Atlantic, as a detail I do remember : ). Rosyth and 20 miles from you .. yikes. Does anyone complain?