HMS Brilliant - Season 1

A look at life onboard Royal Navy warship HMS Brilliant as it patrols the dangerous waters off the coast of Bosnia. A crew of 250 men and women on active deployment enforce the UN arms embargo on Yugoslavia.

The crew are given the job of boarding and searching ships off the coast of former Yugoslavia to seek out gunrunners, and Captain Rapp is struck down with an eye infection.

The controversial issue of Wrens at sea is tackled, and both sides hold strong opinions. Some of the women involved feel that they have been victims of bad press.

The ship drops anchor in Istanbul, and the flight deck is transformed for the officers' cocktail reception. Diplomatic duties completed, all ranks head for an exotic run ashore.

HMS Brilliant is back at sea and caught up in a courtroom drama as weapons engineer Kevin 'Gladys' Gladman is accused of assaulting a superior officer.

For the rest of the ship it's the last board-and-search patrol in the Adriatic, and spirits soar at the end of seven months' gruelling work.

The crew are close to going home, but not before a change of command in Sardinia and a stop in Gibraltar, where the traditional gruelling race to the top of the Rock takes place.