Tag: Royal Navy

• Friday, August 17th 2012 - 07:08 UTC

  Falklands’ residents share HMS Dauntless ‘secrets’ during a reception on board

  

  Falkland Islands residents and the local media discovered the ‘secrets’ of ultra modern Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless last weekend at Mare Harbour following her journey to the South Atlantic via Africa and a stop off at Tristan da Cunha.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 23:14 UTC

  HMS Dauntless in Falklands after spending four months in West Africa

  

  The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless arrived last week to the Falkland Islands in the last leg of its six month deployment in the South Atlantic, spending most of the time along the West African coast.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 22:04 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh and HMS York on sale; “illustrious names to be mothballed”

  

  The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence’s Disposal Services Authority has put the Royal Navy ship HMS Edinburgh, also known as the “Fortress of the Sea” and another Type 42 destroyer, HMS York, have been put up for sale on its website.

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:50 UTC

  UK receives first of next generation of stealth aircraft, STOVL F-35 Lightning II

  

  The first of the UK's next generation of stealth combat aircraft, Lightning II, was handed over to the Ministry of Defence at a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond formally accepted the first of the jets which are short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and are manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

• Thursday, July 5th 2012 - 18:07 UTC

  Drastic cut in UK Armed forces manpower preparing for “the Army of the future”

  

  UK’s Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced that 17 units are to be axed from the British army as part of sweeping reforms that will reduce its overall strength by 20.000 posts.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 19:00 UTC

  HMS Dragon joins P&O cruise fleet parade on the company’s 175th anniversary

  

  She is normally known as quite a large warship, but HMS Dragon was dwarfed by seven liners in the Solent. The Type 45 destroyer’s crew stood in ceremonial uniform as the full P&O cruise fleet passed them as they marked the company’s 175th anniversary.

• Thursday, June 28th 2012 - 20:23 UTC

  HMS Protector back in Portsmouth after seven months in Antarctica duties

  

  Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector returned to Portsmouth on June 27 from her maiden deployment. The 5.000-ton ice-breaker spent most of her seven months away surveying and patrolling the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 10:32 UTC

  Once the pride of the RAF and RN, the Harriers sit at the US “Boneyard”

  

  Once the pride of Britain’s RAF and Royal Navy, the now stripped-down Harrier vertical take-off jump jets sit like skeletons in the famous US aircraft ‘Boneyard’ in the Arizona desert.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 06:45 UTC

  UK reassures support for Gibraltar after major incident with Spain in the Rock’s waters

  

  UK reassured support for Gibraltar following Wednesday night’s incident when several Spanish Guardia Civil vessels and a helicopter were involved in a tense standoff with the Royal Gibraltar Police, the Gibraltar Defence Police and the Royal Navy while the Spanish trawlers tried to cast nets in the Rock’s bay.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 18:43 UTC

  Women commanders take over HMS Portland and Patrol Boat Squadron

  

  Two Royal Navy commanders have accomplished two major achievements: Commander Sarah West, aged 40, joins Type 23 frigate HMS Portland in Rosyth on Tuesday becoming the first woman in the Royal Navy's history to be selected to command a major warship.