ROYAL Navy sailors have cleared mines from a war zone for the first time since Iraq as they prevented Col Gaddafi from holing up aid ships bound for the beleaguered city of Misrata.HMS Brocklesby and other vessels in a NATO minehunting task force were searching the waters off the western Libyan port after enemy fast patrol boats were seen dropping what appeared to be a mine into the Gulf of Sirte.
The ships – NATO’s Standing Mine Counter Measures Group 1, part of the sizeable maritime force enforcing Operation Unified Protector – found two moored mines on the seabed intended to detonate on encountering passing ships in the approaches to Misrata harbour, plus evidence that a third had broken from its mooring and was floating free in the sea.
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