This week the navy publicly admitted that a training ship, the Esmeralda, had been used as a torture centre.

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He has been criticised over a scandal on a military training ship which led to a mutiny - bringing the charge from opponents that his defence ministry is out of control.

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Germany is set to investigate an alleged mutiny on a naval training ship said to have taken place last year.

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In later years, the ship was used as a training vessel for the Royal Navy reserve but was decommissioned in March 2011.

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The ship was refitted at Chatham Dockyard and served out the war as a training vessel.

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