Tag: Royal Navy

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 09:17 UTC

  HMS Protector has completed her first Antarctic mission of the season

  

  The Royal Navy's only Antarctic research ship has completed her first Antarctic mission of the season – revealing the impact of global warming. HMS Protector is on a five-year mission to support international research into wildlife, the changing climate, and the shifting waters of Antarctica.

• Monday, January 10th 2022 - 19:46 UTC

  Royal Navy frigate underwater sonar struck by Russian submarine

  

  The Royal Navy Type 23 frigate was involved in a collision at sea when a piece of the ship’s underwater tracking equipment came into contact with a Russian submarine, it has been revealed. HMS Northumberland's sonar apparatus was struck while deployed underwater by a vessel it was tracking in the North Atlantic in late 2020.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  HMS Protector breaks polar record and involved in scientific research on penguins and climate change

  

  Icebreaker HMS Protector has broken a record, becoming the first Royal Navy ship to enter both polar circles within the same year. The Navy's only icebreaker, Protector left Plymouth in August for Antarctica, – her first visit to the frozen continent since 2019.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  UK Parliament Defense Committee report, “we're going to need a bigger Navy”

  

  Britain’s parliamentary Defense Committee has fired a broadside at the government, raising significant concerns about the future size and capabilities of the Royal Navy in a report released this month” and reported by Defense News.

• Thursday, November 11th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project will enter concept phase early next year

  

  The Royal Navy's Type 83 destroyer project, the replacement for the Type 45, will enter the concept phase early next year, it was announced in Parliament. Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin was responding to being asked when the concept and assessment phase for the Type 83 destroyer would formally begin.

• Monday, November 8th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Royal Navy Type 21 Association will honor HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope at Falklands' Remembrance Sunday

  

  The Royal Navy Type 21 Association will be represented both nationally and internationally on Remembrance Sunday with the laying of poppy wreaths bearing the Type 21 Association Crest in Remembrance of all those that lost their lives whilst serving on Type 21 ships, and all those that lost their lives in the service of their country in war and peace.

• Friday, November 5th 2021 - 07:00 UTC

  London Poppy Day with Royal Navy sailors involved in a record fundraising

  

  London Poppy Day saw more than 200 Royal Navy sailors in the streets in a fundraising effort to help the Royal British Legion and raise awareness of the sacrifices made by Service personnel past and present. After last year’s fundraising effort was scaled back due to the pandemic. 2021 is looking to set a record: the biggest cash street collection of its kind in Europe.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Ice Patrol HMS Protector sailing to Falklands and Antarctica; she called at St Helena and Rio

  

  The Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Protector on her trip to the Falkland Islands and Antarctica sailed past an old work colleague during a fuel stop in Rio de Janeiro earlier this week.

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  James Bond 007 actor Daniel Craig made honorary Commander of the Royal Navy

  

  Actor Daniel Craig has been made an honorary Commander in the Royal Navy – matching the on-screen rank of James Bond. Commander Craig’s appointment as an honorary officer reflects his support for UK Armed Forces and links it with the legacy created through the guise of the fictional British secret agent.

• Friday, September 24th 2021 - 07:55 UTC

  First steel cut for Royal Navy Type 31 frigates program

  

  The Royal Navy on Thursday entered the age of the Type 31 as work began on HMS Venturer, the first of five ships ‘at the fulcrum of the future fleet’. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace set the cutters at work on steel for the lead ship in the Inspiration class in a brand-new assembly hall in Rosyth.