Royal Navy blows up drug-smuggler boat

Author:
Soundings Staff
Publish date:
Jul 23, 2009

A Coast Guard law enforcement boarding team from Miami, aboard the Royal Navy Frigate HMS Iron Duke, seized an estimated $55 million worth of cocaine from a go-fast vessel off the coast of Venezuela. The British navy crew then fired at the empty vessel until it exploded and sank.

Click here for a Coast Guard press release with photos.

Click here to watch the navy gunboat open fire on the vessel.

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