Article: UNITED KINGDOM: HMS IRON DUKE INTERCEPTS COCAINE SHIPMENT

LONDON, Aug. 24 -- The government of United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence's Royal Navy issued the following news release:

Royal Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke has intercepted a cocaine shipment with an estimated UK wholesale value of 6m during a night operation in the eastern Caribbean.

The ship is patrolling in the Caribbean as part of a multi-national task force. She was recently directed to a suspicious vessel by a patrol aircraft operated by the Caribbean Regional Security System.

Identifying the boat as a 'Go-Fast' often used to traffic drugs, HMS Iron Duke closed the contact at night and launched her Lynx helicopter and sea boat.

With an embarked US Coast Guard team they closed on the ...

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