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ROYAL Navy minehunter HMS Ledbury left Portsmouth on August 2 to take part in a NATO task group deployment in the Mediterranean. The ship's public relations officer Lt Rob Garner has agreed to keep the Ledbury Reporter up to date with news of the ship's mission. His bulletins and pictures will give readers a keen insight into life aboard a modern naval vessel.
Meet the crew
9:28am Monday 1st December 2008
Officers and men of HMS Ledbury, photographed while the ship is in dock at Dieppe.
Clearing the sea of dangers
9:24am Monday 1st December 2008
DURING the past week, HMS Ledbury has been operating in the English Channel off the French port of Dieppe in company with her NATO counterparts. Despite high winds and rough seas, Ledbury has been busy hunting the seas for historic ordnance from the Second World War.
HMS Ledbury honours Remembrance Day
9:14am Wednesday 12th November 2008
ON Sunday (November 9), whilst alongside in Vigo, Spain, HMS Ledbury held a Remembrance Day Serice on her sweep deck to honour Britain’s war dead.
HMS Ledbury heading north again
11:17am Tuesday 11th November 2008
The crew of the minesweeper go ashore in Morocco, witness meteor showers and see some famous liners
Dive team
10:35am Thursday 16th October 2008
HMS Ledbury's Mine Clearance Diver Team: Lt Doc Morris, Lt Dave Louis, PO Eddy Edmundson, LD Si Kimberley, AB Si Smyth, AB Toby Jones, and AB James Shell.
Preparing to dive
10:25am Thursday 16th October 2008
THIS picture shows AB(Diver) Si Smyth about to dive on the wrecked World War II aircraft mentioned in the previous post.
Heading westwards
10:30am Thursday 16th October 2008
HMS Ledbury has now completed Exercise Noble Midas and is heading westwards towards Spanish waters, for further exercises with her SNMCMG1 counterparts.
HMS Ledbury finds wreck of a WW2 aircraft
3:16pm Tuesday 7th October 2008
DURING mine warfare exercises this week in the Bay of Taranto off southern Italy, HMS Ledbury found the wreck of an aircraft on the seabed, in 30 metres of water.
Within feet of a US destroyer
9:58am Wednesday 1st October 2008
HMS Ledbury continues to play a leading role in naval exercises this week in the central Mediterranean.
Manoeuvering past
9:52am Monday 29th September 2008
German minehunter FGS Homberg and flagship HMS Roebuck manoeuvre past HMS Ledbury during recent exercises off Sicily.
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