Apollo Performing
The Leander-class frigate, HMS Apollo, giving a great show during our departure from the first full Op. Armilla patrol in the Straits of Hormuz. In those days, we weren't allowed by the MoD into the Persian Gulf - that came during later, much busier, deployments.
In addition to the orange and red smoke out of the funnel from out of date signal flares, she has got powerful fire hoses attached to her twin 4.5 inch guns giving the big jets out to port, and has also set up her engine room to produce great belches of steam out of an exhaust port low down on the hull amidships.
After some officer-of-the-watch manoeuvres with the rest of the departing and relieving ships, we were heading off back home, the end of what had been a tedious six-month deployment for most of both crews, in sight.
Apollo Performing
The Leander-class frigate, HMS Apollo, giving a great show during our departure from the first full Op. Armilla patrol in the Straits of Hormuz. In those days, we weren't allowed by the MoD into the Persian Gulf - that came during later, much busier, deployments.
In addition to the orange and red smoke out of the funnel from out of date signal flares, she has got powerful fire hoses attached to her twin 4.5 inch guns giving the big jets out to port, and has also set up her engine room to produce great belches of steam out of an exhaust port low down on the hull amidships.
After some officer-of-the-watch manoeuvres with the rest of the departing and relieving ships, we were heading off back home, the end of what had been a tedious six-month deployment for most of both crews, in sight.