5120 x 3403 px | 43,3 x 28,8 cm | 17,1 x 11,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2006
Lieu:
Atlantic ocean, West Coast, Scotland, United Kingdom
Informations supplémentaires:
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Southampton in an aerial view off the west coast of Scotland. In 1984, she ran over one of the Shambles Buoys off Portland during the final Thursday War intended to prepare her to deploy to the Falklands. The collision sank the buoy and resulted in a period in dry dock for repair. On 3 September 1988, whilst serving on the Armilla Patrol, she was involved in a collision with MV Tor Bay, a container ship in the convoy being escorted through the Straits of Hormuz. In 1998 she was refurbished and her vertiflo system upgraded from hydraulic to electric by PPHS with their engineer John Williamson overseeing the alterations On 3 February 2006, the ship was involved in the seizing of 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in the Caribbean.
