People gathered to watch a ferry carrying D-Day veterans to France for the 80th anniversary commemorations as it set sail from Portsmouth.The Brittany Ferries ship Mont St Michel was accompanied by Royal Navy patrol vessels Trumpeter, Medusa and Basher as well as HMS Cattistock and the Training Ship Royalist, with tugs spraying water as it travelled out of Portsmouth Harbour.Several small boats and yachts also waited outside the harbour to see the ferry off on its journey to Caen.

People gathered to watch a ferry carrying D-Day veterans to France for the 80th anniversary commemorations as it set sail from Portsmouth.The Brittany Ferries ship Mont St Michel was accompanied by Royal Navy patrol vessels Trumpeter, Medusa and Basher as well as HMS Cattistock and the Training Ship Royalist, with tugs spraying water as it travelled out of Portsmouth Harbour.Several small boats and yachts also waited outside the harbour to see the ferry off on its journey to Caen.