<p>Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond is pictured on exercises.
</p><p>On the 14 June 2012 HMS Diamond carried out anti-submarine exercises with the French Submarine Perle and a French Artique Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA).
</p><p>HMS Diamond is the third of Britain's fleet of six Type 45 destroyers. Launched on the Clyde by our sponsor, Lady Johns, in November 2007, the ship arrived in Portsmouth in the autumn of 2010 and was commissioned in the spring of 2011. She deployed in June 2012 on her maiden deployment.
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<hr><p>Photographer: LA(Phot) Gary Weatherston
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