The Royal Navy hydrographic survey ship HMS Echo (H87) passing Spitbank Fort in The Solent on arrival at Portsmouth, UK on the 23rd September 2020.

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HMS Echo (H87) is one of two Echo class survey ships in service with the Royal Navy, the other being HMS Enterprise (H88). Both ships are based at Devonport Naval Base, Plymouth, UK. In 2014, HMS Echo was involved in the search for MH370, the missing Malaysian airliner that is widely thought to have crashed into the sea off Western Australia.

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Size: 5559px × 3123px
Location: The Solent, off Portsmouth, UK.
Photo credit: © Neil Watkin / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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