Tag: Royal Navy

• Sunday, March 13th 2022 - 20:04 UTC

  Who moved the island? For 85 years Henderson island has been in the “wrong place”

  

  Sailors on a Royal Navy warship have proved a remote Pacific island has been in the 'wrong place' for 85 years. Henderson Island in the South Pacific is one mile south of the position marked on charts used by mariners the world over since 1937.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  HMS Protector in solidarity and supplies visit to Ukraine base in Antarctica

  

  Royal Navy sailors showed their support for and solidarity with the people of Ukraine when they called on one of the nation’s most remote outposts. The Navy’s sole icebreaker HMS Protector dropped in on 21 scientists who maintain the polar research station of Vernadsky in Antarctica to check on their welfare.

• Saturday, March 5th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  HMS Spey, first Royal Navy to visit Pitcairn Islands since New Year's eve 2018

  

  Royal Navy sailors delivered Covid vaccines to the descendants of the Bounty when patrol ship HMS Spey visited the tiny Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific. The islands – which are in the middle of the South Pacific and home to only around 50 people – are one of Britain’s most isolated Overseas Territories, famous as the last resting place of HMS Bounty and its mutineers.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Portsmouth's special power catering for Royal Navy aircraft carriers so as not to leave the city in the dark

  

  When the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers arrived in Portsmouth, the base faced a critical issue – how to find enough electricity. HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales doubled the base's energy use. In fact, the load was so great there was a danger it would impact power supplies to the city itself.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 07:28 UTC

  First Sea Lord outlines the Royal Navy of tomorrow, facing the challenges of Russia and China

  

  On the anniversary of the launch of Jacky Fisher’s HMS Dreadnought, First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key visited the Scottish shipyards building the Type 31 and Type 26 frigates and parts of the Dreadnought-class submarines.

• Sunday, February 13th 2022 - 14:23 UTC

  Eighty years since the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”

  

  This month marks 80 years since Singapore, a British colony with significant strategic importance was invaded and subsequently captured by the Empire of Japan. Its loss represented the lowest point of the war in the Far East and was a matter Prime Minister Winston Churchill never really got over.

• Sunday, February 13th 2022 - 14:11 UTC

  Royal Navy's fifth Astute-class submarine, HMS Anson, completes submerged dive tests

  

  The Royal Navy's next attack submarine is one step closer to entering service after completing a major milestone. HMS Anson was submerged completely in a 'trim dive' at Devonshire Dock in Barrow.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  HMS Protector officer visits “his island” in Antarctica

  

  No man is an island – apart from Royal Navy officer Lieutenant Commander Dave Pitt. Currently deployed on survey ship HMS Protector, Lt Cdr Pitt has become possibly the first Pitt to set foot on the Pitt Islands.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Royal Navy has her first ever female admiral: “someone has to be the first”

  

  The Royal Navy's first-ever female admiral has taken command – smashing a century-old glass ceiling in the service. After 25 years' service, Jude Terry takes the helm as Director of People and Training and Naval Secretary.

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands' War 40th anniversary: HMS Sheffield veterans raising money for a memorial

  

  Veterans of the former Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield are looking to raise £15,000 in just a couple of months – in time to install a memorial on the 40th anniversary of her loss during the Falklands war.