Fighting Sausage "bows out in style"

NOW that’s what we call a welcome.

Two tugs squirting jets of water with their fire hoses, a Lynx flypast, one police launch, one RIB.

What you can’t hear is the gun salute echoing around Plymouth Sound, or for that matter the cheers of hundreds of people a couple of miles away on a jetty in Devonport Naval Base.

And all for HMS Cumberland.

The Fighting Sausage and the nearly 300 souls aboard her brought the curtain down on a proud 22-year career with arguably the most eventful deployment by any British warship in the past couple of decades.

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