 Thereafter, "Waterwitch" was attached to the Liverpool University Royal Navy Unit until she was paid off at Portsmouth in March 1995.After decommissioning in 1995, "Waterwitch" was sold to Pounds Shipowners & Shipbreakers Ltd, Portchester and laid up in Portsmouth Harbour.In 1997 she was acquired by "Project M2270", a voluntary non-profit-making group of ex-Royal Navy and Merchant Navy personnel and berthed in North Shields with a view to offering a shipboard training facility for disadvantaged young people.