Tag: Royal Navy

• Friday, May 7th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Warlike tensions between UK, France over Jersey fisheries subside, for now

  

  The Royal Navy late Thursday withdrew two vessels off Jersey Island, thus easing tensions with France over fishing rights and a demonstration by trawlers in demand of access to waters under a different legal status since Brexit.

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• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 18:41 UTC

  Falkland Islands remember the naval sacrifices of 1982

  

  As a sea-faring nation, surrounded by the South Atlantic, the Falkland Islands have become a final resting place for many ships over time. Many of these were merchant trading vessels that suffered accidental damage at sea due to adverse sailing conditions, such as the Lady Elizabeth, one of the most iconic symbols of the Islands, located in Whalebone Cove at the east end of Stanley harbor.

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• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 23:33 UTC

  Royal Navy takes bomb disposal experts to South Georgia to remove Falklands War munitions

  

  The Royal Navy's HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island's wildlife. The ten-day environmental mission set out to remove bombs and ordnance left behind during the Falkland Islands conflict involving the Argentine armed forces in 1982.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  HMS Hermes refuses to be scrapped; company wants to turn the former Indian Navy flagship in a museum

  

  The dismantling of the Indian Navy's former flagship, Viraat, (ex HMS Hermes) has been kept on hold by the country's Supreme Court, which also issued notice to the company that bought the ship from the government to be made into scrap. The Supreme Court's order comes on a petition by a group that offered to buy the decommissioned carrier and convert it into a museum.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Icebreaker HMS Protector is back to sea after £14m revamp

  

  The HMS Protector, the only Royal Navy's ice patrol ship, has returned to sea after a £14m revamp to improve her ability to work in Antarctica. Extra weight was added to the vessel during the work has improved her ice-breaking capability, the Navy said.

• Monday, December 21st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  French mayor threatens with a “Falklands' war” if no accord is reached on UK/EU fishing waters

  

  The French Mayor Frederic Couvillier, of the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, has threatened the UK with a “Falklands War” pertaining the dispute over the fishing waters with the European Union. Furthermore, the mayor warned of the threat of an armed conflict in light of the looming Brexit deadline.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Four Royal Navy patrol ships ready as of January to protect UK's fishing waters

  

  The British Ministry of Defense said four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready on Jan 1 to help protect Britain’s fishing waters in the event of a post Brexit no deal.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 07:24 UTC

  Royal Navy's generation Type 31 frigates will be built two at a time side by side

  

  Work has begun on a huge hall for the Royal Navy’s next-generation Type 31 frigates – to build two ships side-by-side. Standing at 147 meters long, the hall at Rosyth includes 30-metre high ‘megadoors’ and will be able to accommodate two of the 138.7-metre vessels being assembled at the same time side by side.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Royal Navy in relief support operations for hurricane devastated Honduras

  

  Royal Navy helicopters have flown vital reconnaissance missions over devastated Honduras as relief operations continue in the wake of Hurricane Eta and Iota. Severe flooding and landslides following the two catastrophic storms have left millions of Hondurans displaced and isolated without food and clean water.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  Royal Navy commodore new Commander of BFSAI at MPC in Falklands

  

  Commodore Jonathan Lett of the Royal Navy officially took over as the new Commander of British Forces for the South Atlantic Islands November 20. He replaces the outgoing Commander, Brigadier Nick Sawyer as head of Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.