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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Mr. Quentin Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which ships this year are allocated to the (a) Atlantic Patrol Task (North) and (b) Atlantic Patrol Task (South); and when the ships will be on station. [159713] Mr. Spellar: The ships allocated to the Atlantic Patrol Task (North) and Atlantic Patrol Task (South) during this year, and when the ships are scheduled to be on station is as follows: Atlantic Patrol Task (North) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Ship On station HMS Sheffield 22 February 2001-24 July 2001 HMS Coventry 24 July 2001-16 November 2001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. HMS Coventry is scheduled to hand over Atlantic Patrol Task (North) duty to HMS Argyll on 3 December 2001. HMS Argyll will then be held at 14 days notice to deploy to the centre of the area of operations to where she is scheduled to deploy in mid-February 2002. Atlantic Patrol Task (South) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Ship On station HMS Iron Duke 25 September 2000-15 February 2001 HMS Glasgow 15 February 2001-30 July 2001 HMS Edinburgh 30 July 2001-31 October 2001 HMS Montrose 31 October 2001-11 March 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

159713; 367 c717-8W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Deployment Fisheries Protection Warships Atlantic Ocean Patrol craft

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