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Survey ship to be stationed in Gibraltar for two months
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The survey ship, HMS ENTERPRISE, will arrive in the Naval Base on Friday for a visit lasting until late January next year. Tasked by the UK Hydrographic Office, she is here to update Admiralty charts and to check data that was last surveyed in 1989. Much of this work will be done by the ship’s specialist survey launch whilst the ship itself makes full use of the Base’s excellent maintenance facilities, said Command British Forces.
Since June of this year, HMS ENTERPRISE has been working off West Africa. Her tasks allowed her to produce modern high resolution charts, whilst enhancing defence relations and promoting the wider interests of the UK. “This first phase of HMS Enterprise’s deployment to West Africa has been a real success. It’s gone tremendously well in the fact that we have achieved everything that we set out to do and more,’ said the ship’s Commanding Officer, Commander Adam James. ‘The Hydrographic work undertaken off Sierra Leone will significantly contribute to our understanding of this challenging environment and has proven that we’ve got a sound military data gathering capability which we have been able to refine over the course of the last three months.’
In late January, ENTERPRISE will leave the Rock and move to the Gulf region where she will begin an initial survey off the coast of Oman in collaboration with the Royal Omani Navy followed by other operations in the Arabian Gulf.
In total this deployment will mean the ship is away from the UK for at least 2 years whilst she conducts various Military Data Gathering operations.
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