Interview with Commodore Maryla Ingham of SNMG1

Commodore Maryla Ingham spent four months commanding Standing NATO Maritime Group One, the alliance's high readiness task group in the North Atlantic, Arctic and Baltic. She spoke to us from the bridge of a Canadian frigate, in the middle of a gunnery shoot, a few weeks before handing over in Reykjavík. On Baltic Sentry and how reaction times to undersea incidents fell from seventeen hours to one, on commanding a British staff from German and Canadian warships, on why any NATO ship can refuel from any NATO tanker, and on a twenty-year-old from Thunder Bay who'd never seen the ocean until two years ago.