HMS Argyll (F231) leaving Plymouth Sound.

About a week ago the Plymouth based, Type 23 Frigate left her berth in the Devonport Naval Base,

sailed down the River Tamar to The Sound and headed back out to sea.

Recently, while she was taking part in a training exercise in the Dockyard, 

a torpedo was accidentally fired into a dockyard wharf.

Fortunately it was an unarmed test dummy torpedo, with no explosive charge, 

there were no casualties and only very minor damage to the wharf.

Just considerable embarrassment, I suspect. 

F 215 entering Plymouth Sound

At around noon on Friday F 215, the German Frigate Brandenburg,

sailed into Plymouth Sound and into the River Tamar, making her way up river

 to a berth in the Devonport Naval Base.

Paying Off

The frigate HMS Chatham returns to her home port of Plymouth for the last time with her "Paying Off" pennant flying. (click the image to enlarge). Her days on active service are soon to end. As she sailed across Plymouth Sound, to make her way up the River Tamar to her berth in Devonport Dockyard, she fired her final salute.