Tag: HMS Medway

• Tuesday, February 10th 2026 - 04:20 UTC

  Falklands, top Royal Navy officer visits BFSAI headquarters at MPC

  

  Earlier this month British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, hosted Rear Admiral Jude Terry who met with a range of service personnel based at the Falkland Islands. Rear Admiral Jude Terry is the first woman to hold non-honorary flag rank in the Royal Navy, and was appointed Naval Secretary and Director of People and Training.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 09:36 UTC

  Falklands patrol: HMS Medway replaces HMS Forth that completed five years in South Atlantic

  

  HMS Forth has been replaced by HMS Medway as the Royal Navy's permanent patrol vessel in the Falkland Islands and the wider South Atlantic. The handover sees one Batch 2 River-class sister ship replacing the other after HMS Forth's more than five years based at East Cove Military Port. HMS Forth is now heading back to the UK for the first time in more than five years.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 10:13 UTC

  Refit HMS Forth back on duty as Falklands patrol vessel

  

  Falklands' patrol vessel HMS Forth, P222 has arrived back in the Islands to resume her duties as a guard ship following a refit and maintenance operation in Gibraltar.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:05 UTC

  UK Minister of Defense, “Falklands are British, that is nonnegotiable and undeniable”

  

  “The Falkland Islands are British, that is nonnegotiable and undeniable” emphasized UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, adding that “99,8% of Islanders voted in 2013 to remain British and we will always defend their right to self-determination and UK's sovereignty”.

• Wednesday, October 11th 2023 - 15:02 UTC

  Falklands Patrol HMS Forth returning to the Islands with a new paint scheme

  

  HMS Forth, the Falkland Islands patrol has conducted her first major maintenance period since she was commissioned five years ago and is now leaving Gibraltar and returning to her home in the Islands.

• Friday, September 8th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Falklands: joint helicopter/offshore patrol vessel logistics exercises

  

  HMS Medway, a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel, has recently conducted a joint training exercise with Bristow Search and Rescue off the Falkland Islands. The collaboration involved the mastering of winching drills.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:51 UTC

  Falklands and HMS Medway honor patrol vessel HMS Leeds Castle

  

  HMS Medway is carrying out patrol duties in the Falkland Islands, filling in while HMS Forth undergoes refit in Gibraltar, but her crew are leaving behind a lasting legacy, which will even be visible from space.

• Thursday, February 16th 2023 - 09:24 UTC

  “The Falklands are and will remain British,” MPs from the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme

  

  Rob Butler MP, Conservative MP for Aylesbury, and Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP Labour for Slough are in the Falklands as part of the UK Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, a program ongoing for more than thirty years with the purpose of better-educating Members of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and others in military matters.

• Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 07:58 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Forth on maintenance; replaced by HMS Medway

  

  The British Forces South Atlantic Command this week welcomed the arrival of HMS Medway at Mare Harbor. HMS Medway is a Batch 2 River class offshore patrol vessel, currently commissioned and since 2019 assigned long-term as Royal Navy guard ship in the Caribbean.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 06:47 UTC

  Royal Navy invests £348 million in three new offshore patrol vessels

  

  Steel was cut this week for the first of three new Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) at a ceremony in Glasgow. The vessels, which will be used by the Royal Navy to undertake various tasks in support of UK interests both at home and abroad, will be built at BAE Systems’ shipyards under a £348 million contract that has protected more than 800 Scottish jobs.