MONTROSE Home – the Type 23 Frigate MONTROSE has returned “home” from a six and a half month deployment to the South Atlantic.    29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery was on hand at the Plymouth Citadel to provide a seven gun salute (a brilliant spectacle for the city of Plymouth); and the ship was reeted by a crowd of over 700 cheering families and friends and the Plymouth Royal Marines Band.   The MONTROSE has been carrying out the tasking Atlantic Patrol Task (South) providing a significant reassuring naval presence to the UK's Overseas Territories whilst protecting and promoting UK interests in the South Atlantic Ocean.  The MONTROSE steamed 35,336 nautical miles on the deployment and patrolled in three oceans, visited five continents and six British Overseas Territories.    Having sailed last October (2011) the MONTROSE visited thirteen (13) different ports, rounded Cape Horn, patrolling sub-Antarctic islands until blocked by ice, and then, finally, transiting the Strait of Magellan and the Panama Canal   The six (of the fourteen) British overseas territories that the MONTROSE visited were Ascension Island, St Helena, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha, and most recently Bermuda.    The ship also squeezed in a visit to New Orleans as reported earlier.  No surprisingly the MONTROSE will undergo an intensive maintenance package before returning to operational duties later in the year.