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Navy’s surge
The Navy’s winter clampdown on piracy in the Indian Ocean – which...
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HMS Argyll led Britain’s participation in a major exercise in the Gulf...
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A port stop in Saudi Arabia gave personnel on board a Royal...
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Daring flies
Britain’s most advanced warship has paid her first visit to Jordan on...
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Daring makes
HMS Daring has sailed through the Suez Canal for the first time...
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Pirates captured
Fourteen suspected pirates captured by a Royal Navy task force will face...
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Chivalrous Knight
Tanker RFA Wave Knight sailed with one of Britain’s biggest cruise ships...
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Westminster deploys
Royal Navy warship HMS Westminster sailed from Portsmouth, 23 January 2012, for...
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Westminster’s ‘itching
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Lucky 13
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Supply ship RFA Fort Victoria has foiled an attempt by pirates to...
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'Staggeringly capable'
"UPDATE" A new chapter in the history of the Royal Navy begins today...
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First Sea
The Navy’s most senior sailor visited an American aircraft carrier on operations...
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The Royal Navy will maintain a continued presence east of Suez to...
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Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset celebrated Christmas a week early this year,...
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Somerset helps
After five weeks on patrol in the Indian Ocean, HMS Somerset sailed...
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Imagine for a moment that your pride and joy that normally sits...
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Return of
There was a warm welcome on the damp runway at Culdrose air...
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Sailors stay
Whilst conducting maritime security patrols in the Gulf of Aden, HMS Somerset’s...
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RN strikes
The Royal Navy has once again struck a blow to Somali piracy...
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For the 38 men and women of HMS Ramsey, 2011 has been...
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Commodore Ancona
In a multi-national ceremony at the Maritime Headquarters in Bahrain, Commodore Simon...
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Maritime Counter
Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), along with NATO and European Union Naval Forces...
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Local doctor Scott Jamieson (27) is currently serving as a Surgeon Lieutenant...
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A Remembrance Service was held at sea onboard HMS Somerset. The...
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The Marine Engineering department of Crew 8 in the Royal Navy’s Mine...
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Navy’s surge against piracy scourge ends after making ‘a real impact’
The Navy’s winter clampdown on piracy in the Indian Ocean – which has just ended – has been its most successful crackdown on the scourge to date. But the senior officer who led the four-month operation against the pirates says despite a series of successes by RFA Fort Victoria, and other allied vessels, seafarers cannot relax their guard.
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25 nations
- RN and RFA ships on patrol since
Oct 1980
We need to maintain our watch on piracy – we cannot relax our guard.Captain Gerry Northwood
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Royal Navy's Clampdown on Piracy
In-situ portrait of Captain Northwood RN, Commanding Officer of Operation Capri 2 onboard RFA Fort Victoria operating around the Somali basin.
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Royal Marines search a pirate skiff packed with fuel drums with RFA Fort Victoria in the background
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Fort Victoria’s Lynx hovers overhead while Royal Marines arrest suspects on a hijacked dhow
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Fort Victoria’s policewoman LReg Carol Morton-Harrowsmith gathers forensic evidence on a dhow while commandos guard the suspects
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HMS Somerset's merlin helicopter putting shots across the bow of the dhow
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Stakes are high for HMS Argyll as she joins in major Gulf exercise
HMS Argyll led Britain’s participation in a major exercise in the Gulf aimed at protecting the region’s critical oil infrastructure. The frigate joined US and Kuwaiti forces on the annual Stakenet exercise which hones the skills of coalition naval units to protect oil and gas installations in the region.
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