MOD scraps ice patrol ship HMS Endurance

The Royal Navy's former ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is to be scrapped after the Ministry of Defence decided the cost of repairing the vessel, which flooded off the coast of Chile in 2008, was too great.
The move comes as three former Type 22 frigates are set to be towed from Portsmouth Naval Base to the Leyal Ship Recycling centre in Turkey - the same scrapyard which bought the Ark Royal aircraft carrier. A fourth frigate is also to be taken to the Swansea Drydocks to be dismantled.
The first to leave is Chatham, which is departing today, followed by Campbeltown and Cumberland, with Cornwall set to sail for Wales at a later date.
Endurance, known as Red Plum, was severely damaged by flooding in the incident in South America. A total of 15 civilians had to be airlifted off the ship following the leak which was caused by a faulty valve.
The ship's role as the Navy's Antarctic patrol vessel has been taken over by HMS Protector - a former Norwegian research ship which was given a refit for its new role.
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La fragata británica HMS Chatham hunde dos esquifes de piratas en Somalia/HMS Chatham destroyed two boats of suspected pirates

La fragata HMS Chatham de la Royal Navy británica, desplegada dentro de la misión antipiratería de la OTAN en la costa de Somalia, ha hundido dos esquifes tras interceptar un grupo de presuntos piratas. La acción se llevó a cabo en coordinación con un avión de patrulla marítima de la Unión Europea, y mediante el helicóptero Lynx a bordo que descubrió a los esquifes a unos 240km. de las costas de Tanzania el pasado 14 de mayo de 2010.
Los esquifes fueron asaltados en una acción nocturna por una sección de los Royal Marines.
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Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of suspected pirates in the Somali Basin.
In a co-ordinated search with an EU Naval Force maritime patrol aircraft, operating out of the Seychelles, HMS Chatham's Lynx helicopter spotted a larger vessel towing the two attack boats approximately 150 miles (240km) off the coast of Tanzania on Friday 14 May 2010.
After monitoring the vessel through the night, at dawn, in a well planned operation, the pirates were forced to surrender by the overwhelming force posed by HMS Chatham, her Lynx helicopter and fast boats containing the ship's Royal Marines detachment.
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