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In response to the Strategic Defence Review, First Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins has issued the following statement to the Naval Service: "The world has changed. The threat we now face is more ...
Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales starts the next stage of her global mission after safe passage into the Indian Ocean flanked by escort warships and auxiliaries. Accompanied by her task force ...
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth that Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) trials will be conducted within the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth over the period 10 June to 31 ...
Twenty would-be naval officers will trek along Hadrian’s Wall in memory of Falkland heroes. More used to outdoor activities on nearby Dartmoor, the Officer Cadets from Britannia Royal Naval College in ...
Air Engineering Technician Aaron North of 825 Naval Air Squadron looks up to his colleagues in their Wildcat hovering overhead. The Navy’s perennially accident-prone dummy – Fred if it’s male, Ruth is ...
The captain of Britain’s most famous warship has been named the first winner of a Royal British Legion award dedicated to a former naval leader. Lieutenant Commander Steve Cass, who recently took ...
Next up was naval historian Angus Konstam who focused on WW2 convoy HG76 in December 1941. The Gibraltar-bound convoy saw the first use of an escort aircraft carrier (HMS Audacity) in convoy tactics ...
This joint amphibious warfare training – codenamed Exercise Catamaran– is currently taking place for the first time in seven years. The exercise is in two phases, in Devon and in the Bay of Biscay, ...
G’day, Spey. One of the Royal Navy’s two warships permanently on patrol in the Indo-Pacific, HMS Spey, joined forces with the Royal Australian Navy for a mid-ocean link-up. Spey – based in Portsmouth ...
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN jointly by the King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, the Harbour Master ABP Southampton and the Cowes Harbour Master that the Round the Island Race 2025 will start from Cowes ...
An underwater robot could soon be saving lives at sea for the Royal Navy and prevent adversaries from sabotaging undersea cables and pipelines. A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has been adapted by ...
1. Mariners are advised that the King’s Harbour Master has made the following General Direction under the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth Order 2005, that within the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth the ...