It takes you to the Destination Libya section of their entry on RNI final sentence of which is
"The Almasira and the El Fatah were said to have been used as target practice by the Libyan Navy in the 1980s, and were sunk in the Gulf of Sidra, Mediterranean Sea.[6]"
6 goes to the Mebo 2's entry in Martin Van Der Venn's Offshore Radio Fleet website.
Wikipedia does spout some rubbish, this referring to the reasons for the Lockerbie bombing.
The motive that is generally attributed to Libya can be traced back to a series of military confrontations with the US Navy that took place in the 1980s in the Gulf of Sidra, the whole of which Libya claimed as its territorial waters. First, there was the Gulf of Sidra incident (1981) when two Libyan fighter aircraft were shot down by two US Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters. Then, two Libyan radio ships were sunk in the Gulf of Sidra.
I assume they are referring to the Mebo ships which is absolute rubbish.
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