Auriga 12 Deployment Update – the Type 45 Destroyer DAUNTLESS provided the venue for the inaugural annual defence talks between Britain and Colombia during a recent visit to Cartagena.   After patrols of the North and South Atlantic, the DAUNTLESS has spent the past couple of weeks in the warmer waters of the Caribbean visiting Barbados, Cartagena, and on to Key West (Florida) and will participate in the largest and longest running exercise in the region, UNITAS, which traces its history back to the late 1950s.   The DAUNTLESS will work alongside a dozen warships from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and host nation the USA.    Once UNITAS is completed, the DAUNTLESS will take up anti-drug running patrols as part of the international clampdown on the narcotics trade in Caribbean waters and the Gulf of Mexico.   The DAUNTLESS is due home at the end of October (2012).