Tight security for visit by British navy’s biggest warship
**Goodwill visit?
DON LAVERY
THERE will be tight security in Dublin Port at the end of the month when Britain’s biggest warship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, visits.
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The 21,000-ton ship, which was part of the UK task force supporting the invasion of Iraq, will pay its second visit to the capital within three years.
There will be restricted airspace over the ship while she is in port. HMS Ocean can carry 480 Commandos, 450 sailors and aircrew, along with vehicles, artillery and stores. It can carry 12 large Merlin and six smaller Lynx helicopters. Chinook transport and Apache attack helicopters can also use the ship.
The occasion (starting June 29) is the latest in a series of goodwill visits by UK armed forces here since the ending of the Troubles.
