NAVY NEWS, MARCH 2008 3
● Lolling in the shadow of The Rock, HMS Atherstone escapes the winter
gales battering Blighty. Gibraltar was the first port of call for the Crazy A
and her ‘partner in crime’, HMS Chiddingfold, on their Orion deployment
to the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The two Hunt-class mine warfare
vessels took advantage of the Mediterranean sun and rather more
clement seas to test their Seafoxes ahead of reaching an op-
erational theatre. See pages 8 and 9 for a round-up of
the Orion deployment so far.
Picture: LA(Phot) Pete Smith, FRPU East
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