P.& O. DRAGON – the new Type 45 Destroyer DRAGON saluted the seven cruise ships of the famous P&O line as they gathered in the Solent to mark the firm’s 175th birthday and conducted a sail past out of Southampton, with both the DRAGON and Trinity House Tender PATRICIA in company.   The Princess AmmeA Red Arrows display over the Solent had been cancelled due to the weather but this cleared in time to give passengers aboard the illuminated ships a good view of one of the Royal Navy’s newest ships.

The ADONIA, VENTURA, AZURA

DRAGON has recently finished a maintenance period at Portsmouth and is now in training around the UK coastal waters, including the Outer Hebrides.    Later in the year the DRAGON will start Operational Sea Training which is the major training cycle warships go through ahead of deployments.