<p>Picture shows Merchant Vessel Hartland Point carrying military equipment in support of Cougar 12 in the Mediterranean Sea.
</p><p>The ship is taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the United Kingdom’s Response Force Task Group, exercising with key allies. 
</p><p>Exercises will include Corsican Lion, which will test the maritime element of the UK-French Combined Joined Expeditionary Force (CJEF), and exercise Albanian Lion which will provide superb faculties for the Lead Commando Group to train with Albanian forces, consolidating our relationship.
</p><p>The other vessels in the group are HMS Illustrious, RFA Mounts Bay, HMS Montrose, HMS Northumberland and HMS Bulwark.
</p><p><br></p><p>Photograph by LA(Phot) Joel Rouse
HMS Bulwark
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