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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

HMS Diamond set for first deployment

HMS DiamondHMS Diamond will leave Portsmouth for her first operational deployment tomorrow.

The new Type 45 destroyer, which fired a spectacular 21-gun salute in Portsmouth Harbour to kick off the nation’s diamond jubilee celebrations on June 1, will leave for the Middle East at 1pm tomorrow.

Dozens of relatives and friends of her ship’s company will be at the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth to wave to their loved ones as the ship passes by at around 1.10pm.

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