PLAIN ENGLISH AWARD WINNER
Off-sale date: June 1, 2007
www.navynews.co.uk MAY 2007 £1.40
COMMAND OF
Last hurrah
for Royals in
Afghanistan,
page 22
THE OCEAN
BRITAIN’S biggest warship is taking the fight to the
drug-runners on a four-month patrol in the Caribbean.
Helicopter assault ship HMS Ocean – here escorted by her landing craft, as
pictured by LA(Phot) Ray Jones – and her radar-laden Sea Kings, bolstered
by general-purpose Merlins and Royal Marine Commandos, is casting
her net across a wider stretch of water than the destroyers and frigates
traditionally sent by Britain to support the war on the narcotics trade.
Winch way
■ See page 3 for a report and more pictures
now for HMS
Monmouth?
pages 14-15
Inside HMS
Conqueror,
plus
Falklands 25
supplement
and Rick
Jolly on
Bomb Alley
■ STORM OVER CORNWALL, PAGES 6 AND 10
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