Tag: Royal Navy

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Princess Anne thanks Royal Navy personnel involved in the Queen's funeral

  

  The Princess Royal visited Portsmouth Naval Base on Thursday to offer her personal thanks to sailors involved in Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral. Princess Anne spoke to the men and women about their role hauling the State Ceremonial Gun Carriage bearing the Queen’s coffin and lining the streets of London and Windsor.

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• Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - 08:43 UTC

  Royal Navy honors Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III, with traditional gun salutes

  

  Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines around the world have commemorated the death of Her Majesty The Queen – and marked the announcement of His Majesty King Charles III. Across the fleet, on warships, and at naval bases, two very different ceremonial gun salutes echoed across the waves, across the Atlantic, the English Channel, and beyond.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 14:04 UTC

  State of the art Astute-class sub HMS Anson joins the Royal Navy

  

  The world's most advanced hunter-killer submarine, HMS Anson, £1.3bn of both naval stealth and striking power – able to gather vital intelligence, protect other Royal Navy vessels from threats above and below the waves and destroy enemy military infrastructure with pinpoint accuracy, was welcomed into the Royal Navy fleet at a ceremony in Barrow.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  HMS Scott, in four weeks, has record scanned an Atlantic Ocean area similar to that of Portugal

  

  The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Scott is on course to smash her record scanning the oceans after just the first four weeks of an epic 15-month deployment.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 16:51 UTC

  Royal Navy incorporates experimental ship to test state-of-the-art technology

  

  An experimental warship has been unveiled by the Royal Navy to be used to test state-of-the-art technology, including autonomous systems. The unique new test-bed ship – a 42m, 270-ton vessel named after former Royal Navy sailor and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Blackett – arrived in Portsmouth this week.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  The First Sea Lord warns: “We are focusing solely on the Russian bear risks missing the tiger in the room”

  

  In a wide-ranging 25-minute keynote address to the Council on Geostrategy at The Naval and Military Club in London, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key, outlined the lessons of events in eastern Europe and their impact on the Navy and the nation it serves, emphasizing the ever-growing importance of maritime power as means to promote peace, security, and prosperity.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  HMS Echo decommissioned. Closer coordination with UK's Hydrographic Office planned

  

  The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo’s 20-year career formally ended July first at a decommissioning ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Base. The ship was the first of two Echo-class survey ships – alongside HMS Enterprise, which is still in service – designed for hydrographic and oceanographic operations across the world.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 08:06 UTC

  HMS Forth, permanent presence in the Falklands, and South Atlantic naval guardian

  

  HMS Forth, naval guardians of the Falklands have spoken of their pride of patrolling the Islands at keeping the eternal flame of 1982 burning. As such they joined the Falklands' fortieth anniversary of liberation and end of the war, on 14 June together with RAF and Army personnel, VIPs and Islanders marking Liberation Day. June 14 is a public holiday in the Falklands since the Argentine surrender 40 years ago and was commemorated with a memorial service, parade and reception in Stanley.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 08:36 UTC

  From around the world, Royal Navy Platinum Jubilee tribute to the Queen

  

  On deployment in the Gulf, on patrol in the Atlantic, safeguarding home waters or undergoing training at bases in the UK, sailors lined up on parade grounds and flight decks to celebrate Her Majesty’s 70-year reign and this weekend’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 07:47 UTC

  Royal Navy and Air Force will support Qatar during the World Cup

  

  The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense has announced it will support Qatar with military capabilities to counter terrorism and other threats to the international football tournament.