HMS St Albans (2) - 5 June 2019

In early June 2019, the Royal British Legion chartered the Fred Olsen Boudicca to take 250 D-Day veterans with companions and carers from Portsmouth to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of the landings. The veterans are now generally aged from 95 to 101 so this was a significant and moving event. The great honour of accompanying Boudicca fell to the Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans (F83). In this picture, the Halifax-class frigate HMCS St John's, which would follow the St Albans to sea, can be seen in the background whilst, to the port side of the departing ship, is HMS Warrior.

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