HMS Defender carrying out her £3.3m drugs bust in the Middle East in December 2019. Picture: Royal NavyHMS Defender carrying out her £3.3m drugs bust in the Middle East in December 2019. Picture: Royal Navy
HMS Defender carrying out her £3.3m drugs bust in the Middle East in December 2019. Picture: Royal Navy

22 memories of Royal Navy ship HMS Defender

There are some fantastic images in this selection, that will no doubt bring the past to the present.

included are HMS Defender carrying out a £3.3m drugs bust in the Middle East in December 2019, in December 2014 after more than six months away deployed on high intensity operations in the Northern Gulf and leaving on her second major deployment in October 2015.

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