HMS Lancaster and RFA Gold Rover part ways

After five months together on the high seas two British Naval vessels have parted company.

HMS Lancaster and RFA Gold Rover carried out one last Replenishment at Sea (RAS) before Gold Rover turned and headed back to the South Atlantic and Lancaster planned a course for home.

The two ships met in the Falklands back in June at the start of the unforgiving South Atlantic winter.

Since then, they have sailed across the Atlantic to the remote island of Tristan Da Cunha, and on to South Africa.

Following a maintenance period in Cape Town both ships started up the West Coast of Africa with stops in Angola, St Helena, Ghana and Togo.