Royal Marine assault ships under threat due to cost-cutting
The Royal Navy needs to take more drastic action to provide cash
The Senior Service is considering axing the specialist landing ships HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark and 1,000 Marines.
Two mine hunters and a survey vessel are also under threat.
The Royal Navy is already scrapping its other major assault ship HMS Ocean. But it needs to take more drastic action to provide the cash and manpower for its two new aircraft carriers.
A senior Royal Marine officer blamed the new carriers for worsening the Navy’s financial and manning problems.