| | Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Bulwark heads to the Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | AMPHIBIOUS flagship HMS Bulwark heads to the Middle East on her first deployment in a unique mission for the assault ship. |
 | | Bulwark’s theatre will range from the Horn of Africa and northern Indian Ocean and into the Gulf, where she will also serve as flagship for the RN commander in the region and, using her landing craft, will work with Iraq’s Navy to safeguard oil terminals. |
 | | The ship has spent 2005 on work-up, getting to grips with her awesome amphibious capability (ro-ro landing craft means she can offload troops and kit at more than twice the rate HMS Fearless and Intrepid, her predecessors could) and the new Bowman communications system. |
| www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2005/0512/0005122301.asp (432 words) |