Realistically, they can't expect us to give away one of our old
Wolf-class gunboats do they?
If they see it as junk, why would they accept it? It must have been
of some useful capacity to them, perhaps for training or shore
patrol purposes. It would require resources, manpower and material,
for them to run it, so they must in some way see it as some sort of
viable investment.
Besides, all diplomacy is laced with self-centered purpose behind
it.
It's a gesture more than anything on our part, and gestures are
important.
All that crap about that ship being sabo-ed i.e spy chips implanted
is just ludicrous speculation. Think we so free ah? 
