UK nuclear sub hit by drugs, sex scandal

LONDON - Nine crew members from a British nuclear submarine have been dismissed from the Royal Navy after failing drugs tests, national media in London reported on Saturday.

Four officers, including a captain, have also been removed from HMS Vigilant after breaking the rules forbidding affairs aboard submarines, the Daily Mail reported.

The nine British servicemen were thrown off the vessel, which the reports said was already at the center of a sex probe. They tested positive for a prohibited class-A drug, reported to be cocaine, while on duty and are alleged to have held drug-fueled parties while the submarine was docked in the US to pick up nuclear warheads, the reports added.