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HMS GLOUCESTER (leh)
carries
out
Replenishment
dual
a
at
Sea
iRAS) with the French car-
FS Charles de Gaulle and the tanker F5 Meuse. The Type 42 destroyer. on her lirst operational rier
deployment
since
her £24
million rem. has been vis-
iting
Marseilles belore
heading
the French Tasli Group for the Suez Canal and Indian east
with
Ocean. The tour month deployment will include EIEICIS‘ es with the French. Indian. Omani and other navies On her way home HMS Gloucester will visit Portsmouths twin city of Caen belore taking part in the 50th anniversary ol 0
Day
the
commemorations off
Normandy beaches