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The commander of a US nuclear submarine threatened to ram a Spanish customs vessel
2016-05-11 06:59:47 Post No. 73670855
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The commander of a US nuclear submarine threatened to ram a Spanish customs vessel
Anonymous
2016-05-11 06:59:47
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/668135/Royal-Navy-unprecedented-actions-ordered-US-sub-stuck-Gibraltar-row
>Last week it emerged that a Royal Navy patrol boat fired warning flares across the bow of the Spanish vessel during the altercation just outside Gibraltar waters.
>It has now been revealed that the Royal Navy’s unprecedented actions were ordered by USS Florida’s no-nonsense captain Nathan Martin who warned the Royal Navy to sort the situation out or he would intervene.
>It was the first of two such actions by Spanish vessels that day.
>The second, in British waters, involved a Garda Civil police boat.
>Last night Admiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord, said: “Nuclear submarines are very unmanoeuvrable when they are on the surface, and it is very stupid for the Spanish vessel to go in close like that. The Spanish clearly resent the Americans using Gibraltar, but this is not the way for a fellow EU and Nato member to behave.”
What are the Spanish police trying to prove?
