Navy News: Ark Royal and Liverpool return tomorrow

[Naval_Gazer]

Ark Royal brings curtain down on Auriga deployment

YOU wait four months for a warship to come home…

… and then two arrive in the space of a couple of hours.

If you stand on Portsmouth’s Round Tower at 9.10am tomorrow, you’ll see the nation’s flagship returning from the USA. And at 11.10am you’ll see Ark Royal’s constant companion, HMS Liverpool, sailing home too...(more)

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HMS Liverpool (foreground) with flagship HMS Ark Royal and HMS Sutherland in the background
during Exercise Auriga. Picture: LA(Phot) Gregg Macready
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[Guns]

I love the Flagship title when everyone knows that the LPD's are better suited to the role. But hay ho.

 

[2_deck_dash]

That phot of the stumpy 42 made my tummy fizz. If it was anything other than the Scouse I would have had to go home and throw myself around for a bit.

 

[soleil]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10976177

 

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http://itn.co.uk/db2492919b976c3d00f6e1c8f069f38e.html