July 29th 1982: HMS Hecla returned to Devonport to a rapturous welcome from the families of her crew and those of the wounded men on board. Throughout the war, she served as a floating ambulance taking casualties from both sides to SS Uganda, and made three runs to Montevideo.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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