Tag: Royal Navy

• Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

  UK Defense minister, “Royal Marines are absolutely essential”

  

  The UK Defense Secretary has told MPs he has asked the head of the Royal Navy to come up with a plan for future Royal Marines deployments. News reports have suggested that HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark could be retired to free up sailors for other vessels, amid a recruitment crisis.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Royal Navy sailor fired for producing porn on HMS Prince of Wales

  

  A Royal Navy sailor, Zak Blackman, has been dismissed from service for creating and selling explicit content aboard the HMS Prince of Wales, Britain's largest warship, following a three-month deployment to the US.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  UK and Chile signed a five year Antarctica Cooperation Agreement

  

  Foreign Office minister for the Americas, the Caribbean, and British Overseas Territories, David Rutley, has been quite busy in his areas of influence. At the end of October, he visited Peru to commemorate two hundred years of close relations between Britain and the Andean country. Rutley later travelled to Santiago, where he also had a busy agenda given UK's and the Royal Navy strong alliance with Chile.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Change of skipper for the Royal Navy Ice Patrol

  

  After 20 months and 54,500nm, Captain Maryla Ingham RN has handed over Command of the Ice Patrol HMS Protector to Captain Tom Weaver OBE RN in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 13th 2023 - 07:04 UTC

  UK sends Royal Navy and Air surveillance in support of Israel and stability in the region

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has directed UK military assets to be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean to support Israel, reinforce regional stability, and prevent escalation. 

• Thursday, October 5th 2023 - 08:46 UTC

  Royal Navy revamping Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast, home of the Titanic

  

  The Royal Navy has reported that work has begun revamping the world-famous Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast, home of the Titanic so it can build three new support ships for the Navy.

• Thursday, August 17th 2023 - 11:01 UTC

  Royal Navy Swiftsure-class nuclear submarine to be dismantled in Rosyth, a world first

  

  A Swiftsure-class Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarines that entered service in the 1970s and served for more than 20 years has dry docked at Rosyth, Scotland, as it prepares for final dismantle in a world first.

• Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 08:33 UTC

  HMS Dauntless joins Colombian navy 200th anniversary and Unitas Exercise with 20 countries

  

  The Royal Navy’s most advanced destroyer has completed a large-scale exercise off the coast of Colombia, marking a return to full front-line action after a major overhaul.

• 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, April 20th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

  Work started on Royal Navy's next Type 26 frigate “Birmingham”

  

  Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship which will carry the name and motto – Forward – of England’s second city, Birmingham, around the globe for a quarter of a century.