Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll has returned to her home base of Devonport following a busy training period and a visit to Copenhagen.

Her return to the West Country completes a varied 12 months for the warship, which began at the end of May 2002 when she sailed for a six-month deployment to the Gulf.

She returned from that task just before Christmas, and early in the New Year, with a new Commanding Officer, she set off for a series of anti-submarine exercises in the North Atlantic.

She then participated in the February Joint Maritime Course (JMC) off Scotland with her sister ship HMS Sutherland, after which she called in at her affiliated port of Inverary in the Scottish Highlands.

Argyll then headed south to the Bay of Biscay for exercises with the French Navy before returning once more to Scottish waters, undertaking anti-submarine exercises to the north of the Shetland Islands.

Her current work period was rounded off when she called in at the Danish capital, where her ship’s company enjoyed a spell of elaxation.

On arrival, her Commanding Officer, Cdr Ewan Kelbie, and officers hosted a reception for local dignitaries and foreign diplomats on the Flight Deck, and before the frigate sailed again Cdr Kelbie laid a wreath at the nearby Commonwealth War Graves cemetery on the anniversary of the liberation of Copenhagen during World War II.

Argyll is now in a scheduled docking period, and will rejoin the Fleet later in the year.