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Sky News reports that HMS Medway, a Royal Navy River-class offshore patrol vessel, pursued a drug smuggler’s boat after it was spotted near the Dominican Republic, alongside a US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment and accompanying aircraft.
Once it was stopped, officers boarded the boat and found several large packages of drugs weighing more than 400kg. Three crew members from the boat were detained.
The boat was then destroyed to prevent it from being used to transport any more drugs and also to provide practice for Medway‘s gunnery team.