2011 Effectiveness Trophy – the Helicopter Carrier  OCEAN has won this award in two categories namely ‘Capital Ship’ and ‘Naval Capability’, the latter in conjunction with the Apache Air Group. The awards recognise the hard work of the ship’s company and the embarked air group during 2011, an extremely busy year for the helicopter carrier, being originally deployed to the Mediterranean for a seven week amphibious exercise to test the Royal Navy’s new Response Force Task Group concept before being rapidly re-tasked to the coast of Libya as part of the naval forces seeking to protect civilians. Once there, the Air Group was augmented with the Army Air Corps APACHE gunships flying 49 missions and the Fleet Air Arm SEA KING ASaC7 completing some 99 sorties. There were more than 2,000 deck landings by embarked and visiting aircraft. When OCEAN finally returned to Plymouth just before Christmas, the ship had spent 229 days away with 176 of those being at sea during which she steamed more than 40,000 miles