HMS Medway pursued the boat after it was spotted near theIt is thought the boat had come from South America, travelling along a well-known drug smuggling route.Once it was stopped, officers boarded the boat and found several large packages of drugs weighing more than 400kg.
The boat was then destroyed - a way of preventing it from being used to transport any more drugs and also a means of practice for Medway's gunnery team.Commander Chris Hollingworth of HMS Medway said:"Everyone involved demonstrated their professionalism during a challenging pursuit.
Yet they can't use a knife on a rubber dinghy in the English Channel ?
😂😂 we know the trick. Collect insurance on the boat, take the cocaine . Win win for the operatives
Bet they didn’t torch the cocaine though
If they torched a boat carrying weed then people may get a secondary high.
Good
If this ship was tourched with all that cocaine What about the fish could not be healthy
Meanwhile in the actual country they're meant to defend.
Bet they kept some for themselves
Freedom_2004 How to piss off the CIA 101.
Bet the coke wasn’t on the boat when it got torched 😂
Nicely Done!!!
So much for a white Christmas
Wonder how much of that £24m worth of gear ended up in pockets?
Is that where we get the term 'High Seas' from?
Hope for high winds.
I bet they felt good after 🤣
Sure they have. Eyes on the Tory front bench next week!
Los otros barcos transportando el grueso de la carga pasaron sin problema.
Meanwhile in Parliament...
... - Not quite eco-friendly move by the Anglo-Saxons. - But we already know who they are.
Heads will roll. It was one supplying Zelensky
Will the navy be fined for damaging the environment?
Can they do it to the people smugglers in French waters please? Stop them getting to ours.
Yeah up the navy
The House of Commons will not be pleased .. it was the good stuff too.
'torched?'
Could they not of sunk the boat rather than torching it!
Why are Royal navy in the Caibean,?
Thoughts & prayers to our members of Parliament
Why now? Why destroy such commodities worth such a huge amount of money? Why?
Modern day Pirate’s of the Caribbean?
Does the Royal Navy now have to fill in a marine debris and environmental reports?
Full blown climate emergency going on here RoyalNavy tut tut 🤣🤣
See what happens when Uncle Rome & Franklin fight
Why? 😶
Imagine all of the pollution. Very sad 😔😡
I suppose they Royal Navy are now endowed with special judicious powers to decide whose property to destroy?
Criminal scum off our streets
Drop in the ocean!
What about the pollution. Gonna be some overdosing seaside too. Not clever.
English Channel anyone.
Not very good for the environment, is it?
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So they can go to the Caribbean to chase drugs and pirates, but they can't stop illegal immigrants on their doorstep from sailing across the channel.
Heavy loss that
That's fine. But, there is nobody here in the UK to catch the drug sellers on the streets. metpoliceuk is busy with catching legal protesters. Seeing every day, sold on the high street.
BritishHarley2 Get this boat to the Kent coast
Boris will not be happy.
Whoever was ordering them to smuggle all that, most definitely is pissed.
I'm telling chapo
What a waste of money
Hope the crew was not torched as well
Bet the fish are buzzing
Shame they can’t do it in the channel
Owch, that's gonna cause a few ripples in the underworld, pun intended 😏
As if, wnkers. All the ching is in Portsmouth/Southampton go and have a look.
Yeah yeah... A few saliors will be retiring early, no doubt.
Can it be deployed to the English Channel please?
A life on the high seas not all it’s cracked up to be.
That's what that smell was
Could it not be reprocessed or refined into something that could be used for good, maybe in medicine?
Well done
Enviroment? 🤣🤣
Yet they can not stop a bloody dinghy crossing the channel.
Poor fish
Im sure they took the coke off first. Never trust the gov
The skills and knowledge that has go into this planing on the ground human ear network , come on that's boss class top gun draw . and remain total stealth in its operation and execution , .....TOP Gun eat your hart out world class .
They used to smuggle elections in those :D !!
Gove is livid
I’ve done a shite on that Royal Navy ship 👏🏻👏🏻
Waste of good target practice opportunity.
They should with the illegal migrant boats that come over the channel evey day.
CallumMurray4 👏👏
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