The Royal Navy forced a Russian cargo ship to leave waters just two miles off the coast of Minehead, Somerset, after it spent 14 hours anchored near critical undersea telecoms cables connecting the UK to the US, Canada, Spain, and Portugal.
The vessel, identified as Sinegorsk, sailed into the Bristol Channel on Tuesday night and appeared to anchor roughly two nautical miles from the town. It remained stationary until around 2 pm on Wednesday.
Data shows that five major undersea cables lie within three-quarters of a mile of the ship’s location, including the TGN Atlantic system linking the UK to New York, the EXA Express cable to Nova Scotia, and the VSNL Western Europe network connecting Spain and Portugal.
A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter, callsign Talon 1, launched from Yeovilton, was deployed to monitor the ship and observed it sailing west just before 2 pm.
Aircraft-tracking records also showed a Coastguard plane circling Sinegorsk
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