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This series follows the Royal Navy’s famous flagship aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal on her final mission. Ark Royal named in honour of the galleon that led England to defeat the Spanish Armada is now facing her own death sentence. Though no-one yet knows it, this will be her last international deployment. For many of the one thousand-crew this is their first time away from home. The hopes and excitement seem a world away from the budget cuts to come. It turns out to be a dramatic mission with Ark at the helm of an international task force of ships, code-named Auriga across the Atlantic Ocean, in one of the largest ever peacetime naval deployments. This is the first time a documentary team has filmed aboard HMS Ark Royal on an international deployment since the epic TV series in 1976 Sailor, one of the first observational documentary series to be made, which was shot aboard the previous Ark Royal.