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A boarding team from HMS Somerset has liberated a large fishing dhow, which had been taken over by a group of armed Somalis a few days earlier, over 100 miles (160km) off the coast of Somalia.
Britain today has a new flagship, with assault ship HMS Bulwark taking over the proud mantle from her sister vessel.
An extensive £20m refit has begun at Devonport Dockyard on the Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond.
Crowds of families and friends welcomed Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth back to her base port of HM Naval Base Devonport yesterday following a six-month anti-piracy deployment.
HMS Edinburgh and her ship’s company recently visited Cape Town on a two-week maintenance stop during patrol operations in the South Atlantic.
The Royal Navy minehunter HMS Chiddingfold returned to her home base in Portsmouth from the Gulf yesterday where she has spent three years on security patrols.
RAF Tornados and Typhoons have been in action once again this weekend over Libya, with support from HMS Liverpool, as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
HMS St Albans has played a key role in a major exercise in the Gulf testing the abilities of naval forces to defend the region’s scores of gas and oil platforms which are vital to the UK and global economy.
Behind the scenes of each Apache attack helicopter launch from HMS Ocean to conduct missions over Libya there is a highly qualified surgical team at the ready in the event of an emergency.
Having arrived off the coast of Libya this weekend, HMS Sutherland has already conducted a boarding operation under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset has hosted a families day at sea ahead of the ship’s forthcoming deployment on operations off the Horn of Africa.