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Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham gave a speech to the British Chamber of Shipping on the UK Government’s response to counter-piracy.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Five hostages and their fishing vessel have been freed from Somali pirates by a naval boarding party from HMS Cornwall.
Although she's entering the latter stages of her deployment, HMS Monmouth is still hard at work engaging in counter-piracy, counter-smuggling and counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East.
Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo is supporting the anti-piracy effort in the Indian Ocean by updating badly-needed charts of the region and eliminating no-go areas for Allied warships.
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