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Royal Navy Tortuga Drug Haul Pictures

By James Wray Aug 31, 2010, 14:00 GMT

A MOD handout photo released on 31 August 2010 shows HMS Gloucester covers Yacht Tortuga (front) whilst the Cape Verde law inforcement team searches for narcotics in the mid-Atlantic before being taken to Cape Verde on 30 August 2010. In the early hours of 27 August HMS Gloucester, with an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDet) from Cape Verde, boarded a suspect yacht believed to be carrying cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The vessel 'TORTUGA', registered in Florida, was taken to Cape Verde where authorities discovered cocaine, with a UK street value of at least four million pounds sterling, hidden within the rudder. EPA/SOCA / MOD HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

A MOD handout photo released on 31 August 2010 shows 30kg of cocaine found hidden within Yacht Tortuga's rudder, after being seized by HMS Gloucester in the mid-Atlantic and brought to Cape Verde on 30 August 2010. In the early hours of 27 August HMS Gloucester, with an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDet) from Cape Verde, boarded a suspect yacht believed to be carrying cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The vessel 'TORTUGA', registered in Florida, was taken to Cape Verde where authorities discovered cocaine, with a UK street value of at least four million pounds sterling, hidden within the rudder. EPA/SOCA / MOD HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

A MOD handout photo released on 31 August 2010 shows the Yacht Tortuga after being seized by HMS Gloucester in the mid-Atlantic and brought to Cape Verde on 30 August 2010. In the early hours of 27 August HMS Gloucester, with an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDet) from Cape Verde, boarded a suspect yacht believed to be carrying cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The vessel 'TORTUGA', registered in Florida, was taken to Cape Verde where authorities discovered cocaine, with a UK street value of at least four million pounds sterling, hidden within the rudder. EPA/SOCA / MOD HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

A MOD handout photo released on 31 August 2010 shows the drugs hidden within Yacht Tortuga's rudder after being seized by HMS Gloucester in the mid-Atlantic and brought to Cape Verde on 30 August 2010. In the early hours of 27 August HMS Gloucester, with an embarked Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDet) from Cape Verde, boarded a suspect yacht believed to be carrying cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The vessel 'TORTUGA', registered in Florida, was taken to Cape Verde where authorities discovered cocaine, with a UK street value of at least four million pounds sterling, hidden within the rudder. EPA/SOCA / MOD HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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