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Three sailors are kicked out of the Royal Navy after they were caught doing cocaine on a submarine that carries 16 nuclear missiles
- Submarine sailors from HMS Vengeance were discharged from the Royal Navy
- Cleaners on the vessel notified military police after finding packets of cocaine
- They failed Compulsory Drugs Test after the sub visited a military port in Florida
Three sailors have been kicked out of the Royal Navy after they were caught doing cocaine on HMS Vengeance – a submarine that carries 16 nuclear missiles.
The officers failed a Compulsory Drugs Test (CDT) for the Class-A substance shortly after the 15,900-ton vessel visited a US military port in Florida, back in June.
Cleaners on the submarine discovered packets of the drug in their cabins and notified military police.
The three officers handed over urine samples which were examined while the submarine continued its top-secret operations.
Three sailors from HMS Vengeance (pictured), a vessel that carries 16 nuclear missiles, were kicked out of the Royal Navy after they failed a Compulsory Drugs Test for cocaine following a visit to a US military port in Florida, back in June
In a previous report The Mail on Sunday, the submariners, believed to be low ranking, were removed from HMS Vengeance when she returned to Her Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde at Faslane, Scotland.
TMOS also revealed other sailors, who are believed to have taken the drug while onshore in Florida, are understood to have passed CDT tests after drinking copious amounts of water to flush the drug out of their bodies.
A sourced told The Daily Record drug busts are rare as submarine officers from the fleet are regarded as the best in their job.
‘The men would have been celebrating being off the boat for a short time but there’s celebrating and there’s taking Class A drugs while working on a vessel that carries nuclear missiles.
The Royal Navy has always maintained a literal interpretation of the Ministry of Defence’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards drug taking. They said: ‘Any personnel caught taking drugs will be discharged’ (stock image of Royal Navy officers)
‘Bosses would have had no choice but to sack them. They knew the risks if they were caught but their carelessness in leaving the packets lying around has raised some eyebrows.
The Royal Navy has always maintained a literal interpretation of the Ministry of Defence’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards drug taking.
The Royal Navy said: ‘The Ministry of Defence has a zero-tolerance drugs policy and will not tolerate misuse of drugs by service personnel in any form or at any time.
‘Any personnel caught taking drugs will be discharged.’
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