HMS Iron Duke

Six runners from Hull’s warship, HMS Iron Duke, complete 270 mile run for city’s Women and Children’s Hospital

HMS Iron Duke and her Ship’s Company have now returned to her base port of Portsmouth after completing 6 weeks of intensive training under the watchful eye of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST).

HMS Iron Duke completed her time alongside in maintenance in mid-March.  The last week of a maintenance period is always a very busy one, as the Ship’s Company and numerous shore based maintenance personnel, both civilian and uniformed, push to get the Ship ready for sea again.

HMS Iron Duke remained on post-deployment leave until mid January 2010, although duty personnel remained on board and this time was used to start conducting preparatory maintenance work and defect rectification.

Royal Navy warship HMS Iron Duke, which made a record-breaking drugs seizure in the North Atlantic in September, returned today Monday (December 14) to her Portsmouth home.

While making her way back to the UK from a six-month deployment to the Caribbean, HMS Iron Duke evacuated a seriously ill sailor from a motor cruiser and took him to hospital.