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		</div><p>A British Royal Navy warship has intercepted several Russian vessels in the English Channel during the bank holiday weekend.</p>
<p>Portsmouth-based HMS Mersey was tasked to locate, monitor and escort the ships in the fourth similar action in the past two months.</p>
<p>The offshore patrol vessel intercepted the intelligence ship Vasily Tatishchev, the depot ship PM82 as well as a Russian tug and the frigate Severomorsk.</p>
<p>A Royal Navy spokesman said that Mersey later handed over to Type 23 frigate HMS Iron Duke to escort the Severmorsk out of the UK area of interest.</p>
<p>Lieutenant Commander George Storton, HMS Mersey&#8217;s commanding officer, said: <i>&#8220;HMS Mersey was ready to respond within a matter of hours to this tasking.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This is routine business for the Royal Navy, and HMS Mersey herself is well-versed in this role with this being the fourth such operation in the last two months.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mersey is one of four River-class patrol ships, three of which conduct fishery protection, general patrols and other maritime security duties around the UK.</p>
<p>A fourth, HMS Clyde, is permanently deployed to the Falkland Islands.</p>
<p>Earlier this year Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset shadowed a surfaced Russian submarine as it passed through the English Channel.</p>
<p>The Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine Krasnodar passed through the Dover Strait in the first week of May.</p>
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