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• HMS JAGUAR AT ETHIOPIAN NAVY DAYS. FEBRUARY 1972, MASSAWA, ETHIOPIA. THE FRIGATE HMS JAGUAR REPRESENTED THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE ANNUAL EVENT, IN WHICH NAVIES FROM ETHIOPIA, BRITAIN, AMERICA, RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND THE SUDAN TOOK PART.

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  As the ships gathered at Massawa this shot taken from HMS JAGUAR shows her White Ensign and the Soviet Red Star of the Kashin Class destroyer STROGGI.

• HMS JAGUAR AT ETHIOPIAN NAVY DAYS. FEBRUARY 1972, MASSAWA, ETHIOPIA. THE FRIGATE HMS JAGUAR REPRESENTED THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE ANNUAL EVENT, IN WHICH NAVIES FROM ETHIOPIA, BRITAIN, AMERICA, RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND THE SUDAN TOOK PART.

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  Multi Navy group on board HMS JAGUAR, from left, French, Ethiopian, Russian, British and American. The Briton is Junior Seaman James Fuller of Maidstone, Kent.

• NUCLEAR SUBMARINE IN ATLANTIC DRAMA. FEBRUARY 1972, NORTHWEST ATLANTIC.

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  In a Northwest Atlantic force 8 gale, a Wasp helicopter from the frigate HMS HERMOINE hovers above the nuclear powered fleet submarine HMS COURAGEOUS to take off a sick rating. The patient was transferred to HERMOINE and taken at 26 knots in heavy seas...

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  A Royal Marine ski patrol moves across a frozen lake.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  SRN-6 Hovercraft loaded with Royal Marines raiding craft set off up the Norwegian Coast.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  Wessex helicopter of 846 Naval Air Commando Squadron flies in a snow track vehicle in support of the Commandos.

• ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO SPECIALISTS IN THE ARCTIC. FEBRUARY 1971, NORTHERN NORWAY. 500 ROYAL MARINES OF 45 COMMANDO AND 145 (MAIWAND) BATTERY OF 29 COMMANDO LIGHT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY, BRITAIN'S SNOW WARFARE SPECIALISTS ASSIGNED TO THE NORTHERN FLANK OF NATO, UNDERGOING TRAINING IN MOUNTAIN AND ARCTIC WARFARE IN NORTHERN NORWAY. WORKING WITH THE COMMANDOS ARE HELICOPTERS OF 846 NAVAL COMMANDO SQUADRON AND HOVERCRAFT OF 200 HOVERCRAFT (TRIALS) UNIT, ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT.

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  RM Commandos at fire positions on skis.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  A Russian Kresta class destroyer sends her Hormone helicopter to look at ARK ROYAL.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  Star shells from the destroyer during night search for survivors.

• HMS ARK ROYAL IN COLLISION WITH RUSSIAN KOTLIN GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER. NOVEMBER 1970, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, OFF CRETE, EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHEN SHE COLLIDED WITH A SHADOWING KOTLIN DESTROYER. SEVEN RUSSIAN SAILORS WERE THROWN OVERBOARD AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION, FIVE WERE RECOVERED BY ROYAL NAVAL BOATS AND TWO WERE MISSING. ARK ROYAL WAS HOLED ABOVE THE WATER LINE IN THE COLLISION, BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE IN THE JOINT NAVY-RAF SEA EXERCISE 'LIME JUG'.

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  Kotlin damage, covered by tarpaulin on superstructure,