The Ducuing passes the baton to the First Master of the Her
(B2) The Brest high seas patrol vessel, Chief Petty Officer L'Her took over from the patrol vessel Commander Ducuing in the EUNAVFOR MED Sophia operation deployed in the Mediterranean.
Le Commander Ducuing, which returned to its home port of Toulon on October 16, 2017, had been deployed off the Libyan coast since September 4, 2017. During his 43-day mission, Commander Ducuing led several Friendly Approaches on commercial and fishing vessels to gather intelligence and prevent arms trafficking to Libya ” we say to the French navy. It also took part in the fight against migrant smuggling and “collected on board 170 people who were in distress off the Libyan coast”. Finally, he took part in the research of information on the traffic of petroleum products by sea », new component of the Sophia operation (1). He also made a stopover in Malta on the sidelines of the international summit Our Ocean 2017, receiving on board several Maltese and French ministers.
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(1) The operation is currently placed under the sea command of Spanish Rear Admiral Javier Moreno, on board the Spanish tanker Cantabria, and also includes a German frigate Mecklenburg Vorpommern and an Italian frigate Zephyr.
