FIVE thousand Channel Islanders sampled life with the Cod Squad when they visited HMS Severn at Jersey Boat Show.
An estimated one in three Jersey inhabitants attended the three-day show… and one in six of those toured Severn… so we can assume (using the Navy News team’s limited mathematical skills) that approximately one in every 18 Jerseymen experienced the fishery patrol ship.Which is not a bad ‘hit’ ratio at all.
Severn took a break from her near-constant patrols of UK waters keeping tabs of fishermen to attend the three-day show in St Helier.
There she was joined by around 60 vessels from tugs and small pleasure cruisers to top-of the-range Sunseeker yachts, and another one of Her Majesty’s warships, Bristol’s university boat HMS Raider.
“With the exciting opportunity to operate one of the Ship’s fire hoses and aim the 20mm gun, how could the public resist?” said Lt Oli Ayers, Severn’s navigator.
