Auxiliary on a mission

摘要

The British government has responded to the Ebola crisis in West Africa by sending the part-time hospital ship RFA Argus to support the UK Aid mission, which involves 750 defence personnel from all three services. Argus sailed from Falmouth in mid-October for a six-month deployment to Sierra Leone. En route, the ship called at Gibraltar to embark a fleet of 32 4×4 pick-up trucks onto her flight deck for delivery at Freetown. The vehicles will be used to transport medical teams and equipment to treatment centres throughout the country to help tackle the virus, which has claimed more than 4,000 lives in the region so far.