Royal Navy sends second warship to Gulf
HMS Diamond - a Type 45 destroyer - is en route to join the frigate HMS Lancaster.
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said it was “critical that the UK bolsters our presence in the region”.
In addition, a UK-led task force is to soon begin patrols from the English Channel to the Baltic Sea, to protect Europe’s critical undersea cables.
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