Sailors from HMS Lancaster have dealt a further blow to the drugs trade after seizing cannabis and cocaine with a combined street value of £58 million while on operations in the Caribbean, according to a release from the Royal Navy.
The two incidents came just days after each other, with Lancaster recovering cocaine weighing over 400kg and almost 1.2 tonnes of marijuana during the high-tempo operations. At a wholesale or pure price, the cocaine would be worth just over £17 million and the cannabis around £1.1 million, but at street level where it could be expected to be cut several times over, the values increase significantly to nearer £58 million.
According to the release, Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Francois said, “I visited HMS Lancaster earlier this year as the
