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VIDEO: HMS Edinburgh sends home festive cheer

More than 260 sailors serving on board HMS Edinburgh will spend the festive season on board the Portsmouth-based warship while she sails the South Atlantic. But in a bid to spread some Christmas cheer the personnel have donned their smartest Santa outfits and created a video for their loved ones set to The Darkness’ Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End): video The video features scenes from around the ship with sailors wearing Santa hats, Christmas cracker outfits and elf costumes waving hello to family and friends from thousands of miles away at sea.

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HMS Montrose visits Ascension Island

By Sharon Black

HMS Montrose has visited Ascension Island as part of her mission to promote British interests in the South Atlantic over the coming months.

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HMS Montrose departs on Atlantic deployment

By Sharon Black

Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose has set sail for a six-and-a-half month deployment to the South Atlantic to maintain a continuous presence protecting British interests.

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RFA Black Rover returns from 18-month deployment

By Sharon Black

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Black Rover returned to Portland Port, Dorset, on Tuesday 27 September 2011 following an 18-month deployment in support of Royal Navy ships in the South Atlantic.

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HMS Edinburgh visits South Africa

By Sharon Black

HMS Edinburgh and her ship’s company recently visited Cape Town on a two-week maintenance stop during patrol operations in the South Atlantic.

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HMS York returns from 27,000-mile deployment

By Sharon Black

HMS York returned to cheering crowds of families and well-wishers at Portsmouth Naval Base last week following a varied and wide-ranging deployment to the South Atlantic and Libya.

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HMS Gloucester gets royal welcome home

By Sharon Black

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester joined Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester as she sailed back into Portsmouth last week from her seven-month deployment to the South Atlantic.

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HMS York sails for South Atlantic

By Sharon Black

HMS York left Portsmouth, bound for the South Atlantic, on Saturday where she will conduct maritime security patrols around the British South Atlantic Islands, including the Falklands and South Georgia.

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Sailors honour Falklands fallen

By Sharon Black

Saluting their fallen forebears, four sailors from HMS Clyde recently honoured the crew of HMS Coventry, which was sunk in the Falklands campaign, after restoring their memorial in the South Atlantic islands.