NAVY NEWS, OCTOBER 2007 11
From rasher with love
ASSAULT ship HMS Albion paid her second visit of the year to the Baltic to clear up
Nature’s wrath.
The Devonport-based warship – here accompanied by HDMS Thetis, pictured by
by LA(Phot) Dan Hooper – and her two Lynx helicopters of 815 NAS joined some
20 vessels and military units from five nations (Britain, Denmark, Poland, Germany
and Norway) for Danex07, spread across the Kattegat and Skagerrak.
Danex (DANish EXercise) is, not surprisingly, a major war game organised by the
land of bacon, pastries and Carlsberg.
The emphasis on this year’s war game was very much saving lives rather than
waging war and the organisers set up a frighteningly realistic scenario for the
international force to contend with.
The aim was to clear up in the aftermath of a natural disaster – in this case an
earthquake – and evacuate the terrified population.
Albion’s permanent Royal Marine force, 6 Assault Squadron, were called upon
to maintain law and order, while their landing craft ferried ashore hot food, rescue
teams, pumps, fire-fighting kit and tents for the earthquake victims.
And if the teams from FOST try to make the experience of disaster relief at Bull
Point in Plymouth pretty realistic, well their Danish counterparts take it a stage
further.
The Danes buried vehicles beneath a landslide... with people, not dummies, in
the trapped cars. To add to the ‘fun’ Albion’s fire-fighters had to
tackle blazes where the flames raised temperatures to 400˚C.
It’s just four months since Albion was last in Danish
waters for a huge NATO exercise and a return to the
country, including ceremonial duties in Copenhagen (see
page 32), proved pretty popular.
“Danex has been an interesting challenge for the
ship’s team,” said CO Capt Tim Lowe.
“We’ve greatly enjoyed being back in the Baltic
working with our international colleagues. All in all,
it’s been a very successful start to our autumn
programme.”
Albion paid a brief visit to
Portsmouth on her way
home before
returning to
her native
Devonport.
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