Picture shows Merchant Vessel Hartland Point carrying military equipment in support of Cougar 12 in the Mediterranean Sea.

The ship is taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the United Kingdom’s Response Force Task Group, exercising with key allies.

Exercises will include Corsican Lion, which will test the maritime element of the UK-French Combined Joined Expeditionary Force (CJEF), and exercise Albanian Lion which will provide superb faculties for the Lead Commando Group to train with Albanian forces, consolidating our relationship.

The other vessels in the group are HMS Illustrious, RFA Mounts Bay, HMS Montrose, HMS Northumberland and HMS Bulwark.

Photograph by LA(Phot) Joel Rouse HMS Bulwark

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