Whilst engaged on surveillance operations off the Libyan coast, HMS Liverpool, a Type 42 destroyer was tasked, along with two other NATO warships, to intercept small, high-speed inflatable craft spotted approaching the port of Misurata; similar boats have previously been used by the regime to attempt to mine the harbour.
A Libyan artillery battery on the coast fired an inaccurate salvo of rockets at HMS Liverpool whereupon she immediately returned fire with her 4.5-inch (11.5cm) gun, silencing the shore-based aggressors. As a result of the prompt action by HMS Liverpool and her fellow NATO vessels, Colonel Gaddafi's boats were forced to abandon their operation.
4.5-inch (11.5cm) gun similar to that used by HMS Liverpool is fired from a Royal Navy warship
The Commanding Officer of Royal Navy destroyer HMS Liverpool has praised his 'cool and professional' crew after they silenced a Libyan shore battery this week which had opened fire on the ship and its helicopter.
Read more here: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HmsLiverpoolFiresOnGaddafiForces.htm
well done the Royal Navy.
A Libyan artillery battery on the coast fired an inaccurate salvo of rockets at HMS Liverpool whereupon she immediately returned fire with her 4.5-inch (11.5cm) gun, silencing the shore-based aggressors. As a result of the prompt action by HMS Liverpool and her fellow NATO vessels, Colonel Gaddafi's boats were forced to abandon their operation.
4.5-inch (11.5cm) gun similar to that used by HMS Liverpool is fired from a Royal Navy warship
The Commanding Officer of Royal Navy destroyer HMS Liverpool has praised his 'cool and professional' crew after they silenced a Libyan shore battery this week which had opened fire on the ship and its helicopter.
Read more here: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HmsLiverpoolFiresOnGaddafiForces.htm
well done the Royal Navy.
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