By chance tonight I stumbled upon an excellent documentary series on BBC1 TV.(9pm)
Called "Shipmates" it chronicles the Life aboard HMS Chatham and HMS Ocean.
The First episode detailed the Departure of HMS Chatham from Devonport to the Gulf prior to last Christmas,Transiting the Suez Canal, and Boarding suspect vessels in the Gulf area.
However the routine took a dramatic change following December 26 last year, as Chatham was sent to the Indian Ocean to assist in the Tsunami Relief effort.
Worth watching.
Called "Shipmates" it chronicles the Life aboard HMS Chatham and HMS Ocean.
The First episode detailed the Departure of HMS Chatham from Devonport to the Gulf prior to last Christmas,Transiting the Suez Canal, and Boarding suspect vessels in the Gulf area.
However the routine took a dramatic change following December 26 last year, as Chatham was sent to the Indian Ocean to assist in the Tsunami Relief effort.
Worth watching.
Shipmates
Tue 22 Nov, 21:00 - 22:00 60 mins
New Series
Hello - Goodbye
Just three weeks before Christmas HMS Chatham, a type 22 Frigate, leaves her home base of Plymouth for a six month deployment to the Gulf. Her mission: to detect, disrupt and destroy terrorism on the high seas. Within two weeks HMS Chatham is on patrol - on the lookout for merchant ships carrying arms, drugs or terrorists themselves. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Christmas day is spent 60 miles off the south coast of Iran but on Boxing Day the weather takes a turn for the worse and the sea becomes unseasonly rough. Then comes the news that the ship is riding the after-effects of a massive earthquake just off Indonesia that has generated a massive tsunami. This programme contains some strong language. [S]
Subtitles Widescreen Stereo
Subject:
Factual; Features & Events
Tue 22 Nov, 21:00 - 22:00 60 mins
New Series
Hello - Goodbye
Just three weeks before Christmas HMS Chatham, a type 22 Frigate, leaves her home base of Plymouth for a six month deployment to the Gulf. Her mission: to detect, disrupt and destroy terrorism on the high seas. Within two weeks HMS Chatham is on patrol - on the lookout for merchant ships carrying arms, drugs or terrorists themselves. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Christmas day is spent 60 miles off the south coast of Iran but on Boxing Day the weather takes a turn for the worse and the sea becomes unseasonly rough. Then comes the news that the ship is riding the after-effects of a massive earthquake just off Indonesia that has generated a massive tsunami. This programme contains some strong language. [S]
Subtitles Widescreen Stereo
Subject:
Factual; Features & Events
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