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HMS Dauntless returns home to Portsmouth. Picture: LA(Phot) Claire Myers
Today the 30th October 2012 HMS Dauntless returned home to Portsmouth today from her maiden deployment circumnavigating the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was met by hundreds of family and friends pleased to see their loved ones after seven months away at sea.
The Type 45 destroyer has clocked up 30,000 miles visiting 18 countries across four continents carrying out security patrols, counter piracy and counter drugs operations and multinational exercises.
Starting with Portugal HMS Dauntless went on to visit the Cape Verde Islands, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola and South Africa. Following a short routine patrol of the Falklands Islands she headed up to the Caribbean where she visited Columbia, took part in a multinational exercise and was on standby to support potential humanitarian disaster relief operations during the peak of the hurricane season. She then spent time in the United States before heading home.
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HMS Dauntless returns home to Portsmouth. Picture: LA(Phot) Claire Myers
Today the 30th October 2012 HMS Dauntless returned home to Portsmouth today from her maiden deployment circumnavigating the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was met by hundreds of family and friends pleased to see their loved ones after seven months away at sea.
The Type 45 destroyer has clocked up 30,000 miles visiting 18 countries across four continents carrying out security patrols, counter piracy and counter drugs operations and multinational exercises.
Starting with Portugal HMS Dauntless went on to visit the Cape Verde Islands, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola and South Africa. Following a short routine patrol of the Falklands Islands she headed up to the Caribbean where she visited Columbia, took part in a multinational exercise and was on standby to support potential humanitarian disaster relief operations during the peak of the hurricane season. She then spent time in the United States before heading home.