HMAS Adelaide in the news
Posted: 19 Dec 2016 15:58
Apparently a team from HMAS Adelaide worked with Border Protection and the Federal Police to take into custody a 50 metre vessel off the coat of Tasmania.
The former marine research vessel with no registered home port was spotted by a RAAF Orion and tracked for over a week on a suspicious course down the coast of Western Australia, then round south of the Great Australian Bite, carefully avoiding any landfall before loitering well south of the coast of South Australia and west of Tasmania.
Acting on intelligence, the Navy was asked to intervene and took the vessel into custody, finding it with a crew of some 10 Chinese nationals and believed to be smuggling some $30 million worth of cocaine. Adelaide's crew took command of the vessel and brought it into Hobart.
The ship is now the subject of a multi-agency search operation as they check the ship for additional contraband and try and identify the crew.
The former marine research vessel with no registered home port was spotted by a RAAF Orion and tracked for over a week on a suspicious course down the coast of Western Australia, then round south of the Great Australian Bite, carefully avoiding any landfall before loitering well south of the coast of South Australia and west of Tasmania.
Acting on intelligence, the Navy was asked to intervene and took the vessel into custody, finding it with a crew of some 10 Chinese nationals and believed to be smuggling some $30 million worth of cocaine. Adelaide's crew took command of the vessel and brought it into Hobart.
The ship is now the subject of a multi-agency search operation as they check the ship for additional contraband and try and identify the crew.