HOME tomorrow after one of the longest and most demanding deployments in recent years are the men and women of HMS Portland, who have put the squeeze on drug runners and pirates east of Suez.
The frigate left Devonport last November and hurried east of Suez, where she spent 194 days -– 115 of them hunting down terrorists and smugglers, 21 chasing pirates.
Those demanding searches resulted in more than 30 boardings of suspicious vessels, the destruction of upwards of 50 tonnes of drugs (ma
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