Carrier Strike Group 25 approaches the Bab-el-Mandeb strait - this scene may look stunning, but this area is a choke point where many Houthi attacks have taken place — Carrier Strike Group 25 approaches the Bab-el-Mandeb strait – this scene may look stunning, but this area is a choke point where many Houthi attacks have taken place

The Bab-el-Mandeb, which is often referred to as the BAM, is a strait off the coast of Yemen that feeds into the Red Sea

His Norwegian Majesty's Ship Road Amundsen had led CSG25 through the strait, but once in the Suez Canal she swapped places to be astern of HMS Prince of Wales and RFA Tideforce

HNoMS Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy, being named after the Norwegian explorer and commissioned in 2007

RFA Tideforce, seen here doing a replenishment at sea with HMS Richmond, met up with CSG25 in the northern Red Sea and has now joined the Carrier Strike Group

Carrier Strike Group 25 approaches the Bab-el-Mandeb strait - this scene may look stunning, but this area is a choke point where many Houthi attacks have taken place

The Bab-el-Mandeb, which is often referred to as the BAM, is a strait off the coast of Yemen that feeds into the Red Sea

His Norwegian Majesty's Ship Road Amundsen had led CSG25 through the strait, but once in the Suez Canal she swapped places to be astern of HMS Prince of Wales and RFA Tideforce

HNoMS Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy, being named after the Norwegian explorer and commissioned in 2007

RFA Tideforce, seen here doing a replenishment at sea with HMS Richmond, met up with CSG25 in the northern Red Sea and has now joined the Carrier Strike Group

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Homeward-bound: CSG25 sails past danger zone of Yemen and goes through Suez Canal

Carrier Strike Group 25 approaches the Bab-el-Mandeb strait - this scene may look stunning, but this area is a choke point where many Houthi attacks have taken place — Carrier Strike Group 25 approaches the Bab-el-Mandeb strait – this scene may look stunning, but this area is a choke point where many Houthi attacks have taken place

The Bab-el-Mandeb, which is often referred to as the BAM, is a strait off the coast of Yemen that feeds into the Red Sea

His Norwegian Majesty's Ship Road Amundsen had led CSG25 through the strait, but once in the Suez Canal she swapped places to be astern of HMS Prince of Wales and RFA Tideforce

HNoMS Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy, being named after the Norwegian explorer and commissioned in 2007

RFA Tideforce, seen here doing a replenishment at sea with HMS Richmond, met up with CSG25 in the northern Red Sea and has now joined the Carrier Strike Group

Carrier Strike Group 25 approaches the Bab-el-Mandeb strait - this scene may look stunning, but this area is a choke point where many Houthi attacks have taken place

The Bab-el-Mandeb, which is often referred to as the BAM, is a strait off the coast of Yemen that feeds into the Red Sea

His Norwegian Majesty's Ship Road Amundsen had led CSG25 through the strait, but once in the Suez Canal she swapped places to be astern of HMS Prince of Wales and RFA Tideforce

HNoMS Roald Amundsen is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy, being named after the Norwegian explorer and commissioned in 2007

RFA Tideforce, seen here doing a replenishment at sea with HMS Richmond, met up with CSG25 in the northern Red Sea and has now joined the Carrier Strike Group

The ships of Carrier Strike Group 25 have successfully run the gauntlet of potential Houthi attacks off Yemen and have passed through the Suez Canal.

To get to Suez, the vessels had to sail up the Bab-el-Mandeb – a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, and a choke point known for Houthi attacks.

But HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Dauntless and HMNoS Roald Amundsen, accompanied by a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, made the transit without incident and is currently in Crete.

All images courtesy of the Norwegian armed forces

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