British warship monitors Russian naval vessel through Channel

The British Navy frigate H.M.S. Argyll fires a 21-gun salute as it sails past Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, September 10, 2014. REUTERS/Jeffrey B Roth

LONDON (Reuters) - A British warship shadowed a Russian frigate through the English Channel on Tuesday, taking over monitoring from French surveillance on the frigate's voyage northwards.

HMS Argyll, a navy ship maintained at high-readiness, deployed a Lynx helicopter and used sensors to locate and monitor the Russian warship Yaroslav Mudryy, which was en route to the North Sea from the Mediterranean.