In the foreground HMS Cumberland. Beyond her, her sister HMS Cornwall.Never again will two Type 22 frigates work together on operations – in this case safeguarding the troubled waters east of Suez.
Both are conducting their final deployments: the Fighting Sausage initially in the Gulf, now outside it; Cornwall as the flagship of Combined Task Force 151 keeping pirates under the thumb off the Horn of Africa.
All four 22s were axed under last year’s defence review: HMS Chatham has already paid off, Campbeltown is due to decommission imminently.
