Plymouth Marines participate in Sydney training

The training in Sydney finished with the recapture of an iconic green and yellow New South Wales ferry

A Royal Marines unit helped swoop on a passenger ferry in Australia during anti-terrorism training in view of tourists visiting Sydney Opera House.

As part of Australia's largest-ever military exercise marines from Plymouth-based 42 Commando worked with counterparts from the host nation, the US, Japan and Singapore in Sydney harbour.

The training saw allies work on boarding operations, which the Royal Navy said aimed to perfect the skills needed to hunt down smugglers, terrorists and pirates around the world.

The training in Sydney finished with the recapture of an iconic green and yellow New South Wales ferry using US Black Hawk helicopters among other specialist vehicles.

Their involvement in Talisman Sabre is just part of the UK's contribution to the exercise

The 42 Commando unit was recently involved with the seizure of 1.5 tonnes of illegal narcotics in the Middle East.