HMS Ocean arrives home for the last time

THE ROYAL Navy’s former flagship HMS Ocean returned to Devonport in Plymouth on December 19, ending the warship’s service with the UK. The amphibious assault vessel, which will be decommissioned this year, had left Plymouth at the end of August 2017 to serve as flagship for NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) in the Mediterranean. At the beginning of September, the ship was re-tasked to take humanitarian aid to British Overseas Territories hit by Hurricane Irma (see CHF in the