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Royal Navy Warship Seizes £30m of Drugs

The HMS Lancaster secretly shadowed the suspect through the Arabian Sea for more than 24 hours before it struck.
6 Jun 2025
Lifestyle
The crew aboard HMS Lancaster with the drugs.
The crew aboard HMS Lancaster with the drugs.

HMS Lancaster, which is based in Portsmouth when not on active service, seized the one and a half tonne load of narcotics while at sea in the Middle East.

OE Jonty Inderwick (9981) was one of the Navy helicopter pilots involved in this story.

To read more visit the BBC article here.

 

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