...the RN should be willing to support the Export drive by releasing a ship for sale
And there was I thinking all this tax money lavished on the Navy's tiny flotilla of ships was being used to defend our country and interests. This implies that the ships are just lying around not doing anything useful at all, in which case why not just transfer the RN from the MoD to the Department of Trade and Industry, or whatever it is called this week, where it obviously belongs.