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Sailors onboard the Chinese guided
missile destroyer, Guangzhou, attend a farewell ceremony after a joint
exercise with British aircraft carrier Ark Royal in the Atlantic sea near
Portsmouth, Sept. 10, 2007. Supply ship Weishanhu also
participated.(Xinhua Photo)
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ABOARD GUANGZHOU DESTROYER, Atlantic, Sept. 10
(Xinhua) -- Two Chinese naval vessels on Monday conducted a first ever joint
exercise with British aircraft carrier Ark Royal in the Atlantic sea near the
southern British port city of Portsmouth.
;The two Chinese naval vessels are the guided missile
destroyer Guangzhou and the supply ship Weishanhu. This is the first time that
Chinese naval vessels have conducted a joint exercise with an aircraft carrier
and their first exercise in the Atlantic sea.
The exercise covered communication operations,
including light communications and ultra-high frequency telecommunication,
change of formations, joint fleet formations search, and search and rescue of
damaged ships.
The exercise was conducted under the following
scenario: a naval vessel from country G caught fire on the sea; under the
request of country G, Chinese and British naval vessels go to search for the
vessel and for any survivors.
This is the second time that Chinese warships have
visited Britain since September 2001, and it is the second leg of their 87-day
voyage that has already taken them to St. Petersburg, Russia, and will also take
them to Spain and France.
