British Troops Use Civilian Ferry to Travel to NATO Exercise

British Troops Use Civilian Ferry to Travel to NATO Exercise

The British Army, for the first time in more than 20 years, has chartered a civilian ferry to transport its forces. It is putting a good light on the...

British Army charters ferry for first time in 20 years

More than 1,400 British soldiers have boarded a chartered civilian passenger ferry to travel to a major military exercise in Germany, the first time the British Army has used civilian sea transport on this scale in over two decades. The troops, drawn from the 7th Light Mechanised Brigade, known as the Desert Rats, sailed from Newcastle on the King Seaways, a ferry operated by DFDS, before continuing by rail through the Netherlands to Germany, wh…