Ambuscade Helicoptors

Originally equipped with a Westland Wasp helicoptor

'Burning and Turning'

photo © David Marchant c1978

Later replaced by the Westland Lynx

Lynx 1983
photo © S Griffin

Ambuscade has the unfortunate claim to fame for being the first ship to lose a Lynx at sea in 1982
(fortunately no one was seriously hurt).
We hope to have the story of the ditching here soon