This morning Bella Jane and I were in San Juan for music and I happened to see the French Corvette, the Ventose entering San Juan Bay. This French warship is home ported at Fort de France in Martinique. It is a capable warship armed with a 100mm gun, a helicopter, anti submarine and anti-ship missiles, and a small compliment of Special Forces Marines. A close look at the picture shows two of the Marines, armed and standing ready, above the bridge. The ship was met by a tug that escorted her into a birth in the harbor. A quick Google showed that this vessel recently worked cooperatively with the US Coast Guard in interdicting drug laiden vessels off Venezuela.
I was delighted to catch the modern warship coming up the channel past (in the foreground of the photograph) El Moro, the main seaward defender of San Juan in days past and (in the background of the photograph) the smaller battery visible on the far shore.
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