Royal Navy fires warning shots as Spanish vessel harasses US sub in Gibraltar

Business Insider Wed, May 4 10:00 PM PDT 
The Royal Navy fired flares to warn of a Spanish patrol boat approaching an American nuclear submarine off Gibraltar. The fast patrol boat HMS Sabre fired warning shots across the bow of a Guardia Civil vessel as it twice tried to cut across the path of USS Florida during an incursion into Gibraltar’s waters. Gibraltar says Spanish vessels regularly stray deep into its territorial waters and the Foreign Office has attacked the incursions as provocative. But defence sources said it was rare for a Royal Navy vessel to fire flares and it had only happened a couple of times in the past two years. One Naval source said: "It just got too close and when it's a nuclear submarine, you get twitchy any ...
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