Still, the Navy did eventually buy her.
At that time the Varda steelworks were in a free country and our Navy bought many of their tools.
The Norwegian Navy has shown interests in the project and may buy several submarines in the future.
Since the appeals court ruling, the Navy has bought or condemned 1,600 more.
The Navy also bought "California", a guest house at Katoomba, for the same purpose.
For instance, the Navy has bought thousands of the players to reduce the many tons of paperwork that accompany each ship to sea.
"I don't think the Navy will buy that, old boy."
Primarily for the sea lanes, the Navy has quite properly been buying attack submarines.
If the vessels were worth saving, though, the Navy could buy them at scrap value and put them in mothballs.
But the program's size has been cut sharply, so that the Navy will buy no more than one Seawolf a year.