HMS York is homeward bound after an encounter with a familiar Yorkshire sight during a South American tour.
The Type 42 destroyer made a sea rendezvous with the Chilean warship Almirante Williams, which was previously HMS Sheffield until she was decommissioned in 2002 from the Royal Navy.
HMS York took aboard two Chilean military pilots to complete the perilous Cape Horn passage so she could meet the Type 22 destroyer. She also had a mid-sea refuelling from a Chilean tanker before making a formal visit to Peru and carrying out exercises with a Peruvian frigate.
The British warship will arrive home in July after nearly six months at sea which have taken her to Libya for humanitarian rescue operations and the Falklands for routine patrols.
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