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The Royal Navy delivered its fourth blow to drug traffickers in the Middle East in as many months as HMS Montrose seized nearly £2m heroin. The frigate pounced on a dhow while conducting a sweep of the Gulf of Oman with an international task force dedicated to stopping criminal and terrorist activity. After a team of Royal Marines secured the…
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Royal Navy ships and personnel have joined a new international task force to safeguard ships passing through one of the world’s most dangerous choke points. Frigate HMS Montrose and support ship RFA Lyme Bay joined the US-led Combined Task Force 153 for a demonstration of naval might and unity in the Red Sea. The task force is the fourth international…
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The dagger was unsheathed once again in the Middle East as Royal Navy warships joined Omani hosts for their largest naval exercise. Khunjar Hadd – which translates as Sharp Dagger – is a regular fixture on the Middle East naval calendar. The 2022 version of the exercise, planned and led by the Royal Navy of Oman, was the 27th iteration.…
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Sailors on a Royal Navy warship have proved a remote Pacific island has been in the ‘wrong place’ for 85 years. Henderson Island in the South Pacific is one mile south of the position marked on charts used by mariners the world over since 1937. On the eve of British Science Week, patrol ship HMS Spey confirmed the error as…
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The Royal Navy has dealt its second multi-million-pound blow to drug traffickers in the Middle East in days. More than one tonne of illegal narcotics was captured by HMS Montrose – over £8m of drugs on the back of a £15m haul just a few days ago. In a nine-hour operation in the Gulf of Oman, the ship’s boarding team…
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More than one tonne of drugs – worth over £15m – has been seized by the Royal Navy in its first bust of the year. In a ten-hour operation sailors and Royal Marines from HMS Montrose bagged an assortment of heroin, methamphetamine and hashish – depriving criminal and terrorist networks of vital funding. The frigate – which has been operating…
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Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose today celebrates 1,000 days in the Gulf keeping sea lanes open and tackling drug smugglers. The frigate and her 200 sailors and Royal Marines have provided a constant presence by a major Royal Navy warship in the Middle East since April 11 2019, working with other British and allied vessels to safeguard shipping, keep sea…
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Engineers supporting Royal Navy operations in the Gulf completed a first – replacing HMS Montrose’s principal radar in theatre, without sending her 7,500 miles home to Plymouth. Artisan – Advanced Radar Target Indication Situational Awareness and Navigation is the principal medium-range eyes of the Fleet, fitted to all frigates and capital ships. It can see targets up to 200 kilometers…
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Duqm Naval Dockyard (DND), the Joint Venture between Babcock International and ASYAD Drydock (Oman Drydock Company), has completed a first of its kind double engine replacement for the Royal Navy in the Middle East. Undertaken at Asyad dry dock facility at Duqm, in Oman, this complex operation to replace the Forward Auxiliary Machinery Room generators was a package of more…
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March 22, 2021 – Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose has struck for a third time in less than five weeks. In an operation lasting 10 hours, the Montrose intercepted over 6100 lbs (2800 kg) of hashish and 110 lbs (50 kg) of heroin in the Arabian Sea, March 12, 2021. The boarding team from the ship, operating in direct support…
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