The crew of a Royal Navy warship have released six rare turtles that washed up on UK shores back into the wild in their original Atlantic habitat.Portsmouth-based patrol vessel HMS Medway transported the loggerhead turtles to the Azores, as it was heading towards the Caribbean, where they were released having been cared for by Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium and Anglesey Sea Zoo.

The crew of a Royal Navy warship have released six rare turtles that washed up on UK shores back into the wild in their original Atlantic habitat.Portsmouth-based patrol vessel HMS Medway transported the loggerhead turtles to the Azores, as it was heading towards the Caribbean, where they were released having been cared for by Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium and Anglesey Sea Zoo.