Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans

(asked on 12th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether subsea cable repair ships should be classified as warships.


Answered by
Baroness Goldie Portrait
Baroness Goldie
This question was answered on 26th July 2021

For a subsea cable repair ship to be classed as a warship, it would need to meet the definition of a warship under Article 29 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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