Want your own Bond villain boat?

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It's not what you'd normally expect to find while scrolling through an online auction.

But bidders with deep pockets can buy themselves a real life U.S Navy stealth ship for a fraction of the $190 million (£115million) it cost to build.

In fact bidding on the experimental Sea Shadow - which inspired the 'invisible boat' captained by Bond Villain Elliot Carver in 007 movie Tomorrow Never Dies - has stalled at a cut-price $100,420 (£61,000).

There's just one condition of sale that will stop budding Bond baddies from using the ship as a weapon - the winning bidder must 'dismantle and scrap' their purchase before it can leave the US.




Anyone who wants to join the sale must also lay down a hefty £6,000 deposit.

Production on the groundbreaking vessel began in 1982 and was completed three years later - but the general public weren't aware of its existence until 1993.

It was taken out of service in September 2006.

Will it fit in my boathouse?

Weight: 563 tons

Length: 164 feet (50 metres)

Width: 68 feet (21 metres)

Hull: 15 feet (4.6 metres)

The groundbreaking boat measures 164ft by 70ft, weighs 563 tons and was capable of cruising the seas at a maximum of 14 knots.

It was which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Navy and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company.

Sea Shadow has a Swath Water Plane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) design, where the vessel's angled sides extend below the waterline to torpedo-shaped hulls which gave it exceptional stability in bad weather.

Once veiled in secrecy, the vessel later came into the open and was used as a tool for testing and evaluating new technologies in a realistic at-sea environment.

However, for the last few years it has been holed up in a dry dock in California with authorities hoping to find a museum which could rehome it.

After exhausting all channels it is now resigned for the scrapheap and is offered for sale on the GS Auctions website - an eBay-style website for military products.

The auction closes on May 4.

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the winning bidder must 'dismantle and scrap' their purchase before it can leave the US.

Well that's a sure way to up the price.