A live spectacular from the English Channel where tonight Britain's most powerful warship the 43,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal leads a flotilla of the Western Fleet.
Raymond Baxter reports.
The ships: aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; frigates HMS Galatea, Euryalus; submarine HMS Sealion; Royal Fleet auxiliaries Olmeda, Regent. The aircraft: fixed wing Phantoms, Buccaneers, Gannets; helicopters Sea King, Wessex, Wasp; and one of the first Harriers to use an aircraft carrier.
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