LAST week the Royal Navy's fleet flagship set sail for the Caribbean loaded with long-term emergency supplies for British territories devastated by the storm Irma.
HMS Ocean, which was fitted out and launched in Barrow, left Gibraltar last Tuesday night stacked with more than 200 pallets of aid including timber, buckets, bottled water, food, baby milk, bedding and clothing.
The ship is also taking pick-up trucks donated by the Gibraltar government, the Royal Navy said.
The helicopter carrier and assault ship is known as Britain's biggest warship and is the flagship of the Royal Navy. She was built by the Kvaerner shipyard in Govan on the Clyde, then fitted out by VSEL in Barrow prior to sea trials and then acceptance into service.
The Queen came to Barrow in 1998 to name HMS Ocean, after which the ship was commissioned in September 1998 at her home port of Devnport, Plymouth. She is due to be decommissioned in spring next year.
Today we look back into the archives at pictures of HMS Ocean from the 1990s.
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