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International Festival of the Sea 2005

By A J Summersgill Front Page Features|Museums and Shows |  Published: July 16, 2005 at 1:36 pm

INS Mumbai (D62) had come all the way from India and, like the Russian ship I mentioned earlier, mounted multiple weapons systems, including guns, torpedoes and missiles – a very fearsome vessel indeed for her size.

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F245 is the Ocu Creis from Turkey, and in the following picture, it’s the Hydra again from Greece. It took me about an hour to work my way around to this side of the pier from where I had seen her previously.

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This is a nice shot across the central "lagoon" which gives some idea of the scale of the event I was attending.

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HMS Cumberland (F85) sits alongside the Saachsen (F219) from Germany in both these shots from fore and aft.

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