February 2012

SOMERSET – Red Sea Mission – The Type 23 Frigate SOMERSET, near the end of the current tour on East of Suez duty, (more correctly described as maritime security operations in the Middle East), had the contingent of embarked Royal Marines training with the Maritime Border Unit (of Saudi Arabia) during a recent stop at Jeddah on the current Red Sea mission..    SOMERSET has visited the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Tanzania and the Seychelles on the current six month deployment, to which list Saudi Arabia must now be added.