HMS Iron Duke, a Type 23 frigate, was one of four Royal Navy vessels that stalked the Russian ships towards a home base in the Baltics.
HMS Iron Duke charged at full speed up to a Russian warship as a naval Wildcat helicopter swooped and circled as low as 80ft above the waves.
THIS is the moment Sun Man Jerome Starkey joined Royal Navy gunboats as they intercepted a Russian convoy in a dramatic Channel showdown.
HMS Iron Duke steamed out of Portsmouth at dusk on Wednesday as the Russian convoy approached Lands End.
At one point, commercial shipping forced HMS Iron Duke to close in to 1,000 yards of the Aleksandr Otrakovskiy before later opening up to two miles.
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