Tag: Gavin Williamson MoD

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 21:50 UTC

  Penny Mordaunt, the first UK female defense secretary

  

  Penny Mordaunt has become the UK's first female defense secretary after Gavin Williamson was sacked. She was previously international development secretary, in charge of a multi-billion pound annual budget. With a background as a naval reservist, and having served as an armed forces minister under David Cameron, Ms Mordaunt seems well prepared for the role.´

• Monday, April 8th 2019 - 07:09 UTC

  HMS Montrose spots high seas' fuel transfer to North Korean tanker

  

  The Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose has successfully tracked an illegal fuel transfer at sea while conducting United Nations sanctions enforcement against North Korea. Working alongside Japanese partners, HMS Montrose spotted a North Korean ship in the East China Sea, alongside another ship of unknown nationality.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 19:58 UTC

  Submariners celebrate 50 years of the Royal Navy's nuclear deterrent patrols

  

  Events across the UK will celebrate the 50 years of dedication of submariners on the longest operation ever carried out by British armed forces. No mission has been longer – or more important – than the nuclear deterrent patrols performed around the clock by the Royal Navy over the past half-century.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Royal Navy retains patrol ships for Fishery Protection in post Brexit scenario

  

  UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has secured the protection of British home waters by announcing he will retain three of the Royal Navy’s patrol ships. The future of the Batch 1 Offshore Patrols Vessels (OPVs), HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey and HMS Severn, which currently support the Fishery Protection Squadron, have been secured ahead of the Brexit negotiations for Britain to withdraw from the European Union.

• Monday, August 20th 2018 - 07:52 UTC

  HMS Exeter sunk in 1942 by Japan has been plundered by Chinese pirates

  

  Ten British ships sunk during the Second World War and designated as war graves have been plundered for scrap metal by Chinese pirates, an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found. They include HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Exeter which was involved in the River Plate battle against the Graf Spee, closely operating from the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:00 UTC

  “UK is and will remain a tier one military power”, after Brexit, Defense Secretary tells Washington

  

  British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson insisted on Tuesday that Britain's military will not be diminished after it leaves the European Union next year. “Britain leaving the European Union has no impact in terms of the security and defense of Europe,” Mr Williamson said in a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

• Monday, February 12th 2018 - 15:35 UTC

  “The Big Lizzie” calls at Gibraltar on maiden trip; she's scheduled to begin helicopter trials

  

  The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in Gibraltar for her first overseas port visit. As she sailed into port under close security escort, UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson highlighted the Rock’s strategic role for UK military operations.

• Thursday, November 30th 2017 - 07:53 UTC

  ARA San Juan: since Falklands' conflict, Buenos Aires and London have never been closer

  

  Under the suggestive heading, Clarin correspondent Maria Laura Avignolo writes that the Argentine tragedy of the submarine ARA San Juan has brought ever so close Argentine and British military for the first time since the Falklands conflict. And not surprisingly the support effort includes using the MPA complex in the Islands, if needed.

• Friday, November 3rd 2017 - 07:02 UTC

  'Cronus' Williamson new Defense Secretary: strength or weakness of PM May's cabinet?

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May named Gavin Williamson defence secretary on Thursday after his predecessor, Michael Fallon, became the first casualty of a deepening scandal in British politics. Williamson, 41, is a trusted ally of the prime minister whose former job as chief whip involved enforcing discipline for May's Conservative Party in parliament.