Serving sailors, veterans, cadets and supporters turned out in force to witness the unveiling of a memorial for all Naval Service personnel past, present and future at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. The memorial – a bold design of glass and stone – was created as a gift to the w
Rear-Admiral (ESP N) Eugenio Diaz Del Rio, Commander Standing NATO Maritime Group TWO (SNMG2), handed over command of NATO’s counter-piracy Operation OCEAN SHIELD task force (TF 508) to Commodore (Royal Danish Navy) Aage Buur Jensen, Commander SNMG1 during an operational handover in Souda Bay on Sat
Sandown class mine hunter HMS Bangor has left Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard for sea trials on Friday, 13 June, following a successful six month Support Period (Docking) (SP(D)). The SP(D), carried out under the Surface Ship Support Alliance Class Output Management (COM) arrangements by the Babcock-led
More than a thousand people flocked to see HMS Defender in Gibraltar as she stopped at the port on her way to Middle East. HMS Defender is the fifth of the Royal Navy’s six Type 45 destroyers and made her first port of call 1,000 miles into her 7,500-mile journey from the Solent to […]
Senior representatives from the Royal UK Navy and the Royal Netherlands Navy have signed a long-standing agreement to share operational training and naval assets. Vice Admiral David Steel CBE, Second Sea Lord and Vice Admiral Matthieu J M Borsboom, Commander Royal Netherlands Navy signed the memor
Pella Shipyard, a Russian tug building company, launched a new tug boat “RB-413” scheduled for delivery to the Russian Navy in 2015. The tug boat of 90600 design, which will be part of the Baltic Fleet, is designed for towing and berthing operations, refloating of ships, fighting fires, oil spill
Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group TWO (SNMCMG2) arrived in Valletta on Thursday, 12 June 2014, for a scheduled port visit during the Group’s deployment to the Mediterranean to enhance maritime security in the region and strengthen relations between NATO and Malta. During this port visit, t
A Royal Navy minehunter has destroyed a Second World War mine dredged up by a fishing vessel off the coast of Falmouth. HMS Pembroke used her state-of-the-art Seafox system to seek out and destroy the mine – estimated to be around 300lbs of explosive material. Dredged up in the nets of a fisherman
Royal UK Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless will sail into the Mersey tomorrow in support of the International Mersey River Festival. In her first visit to the city, the 152-metre warship will go alongside at Liverpool’s Cruise Liner Terminal at 10.30am and will form one of the star attractions
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) departed the Black Sea after a series of engagements promoting peace and stability in the region, June 12. Vella Gulf’s mission, while in the Black Sea, was to work with NATO allies and European partners, demonstrating the United
The Royal UK Navy has been praised for its efforts in tackling floods which hit the town of Romsey in February. Romsey Town Council held an official reception last week for some of the Portsmouth-based sailors at the town hall as a token of its appreciation. Fifty Navy personnel were deployed to R
Divers have been given special permission to inspect a 100-year-old Royal UK Navy submarine so people can learn more about shipwrecks and – the pioneers of the Silent Service. Over the next six months, frogmen will inspect the hull of HMS A7 – one of the very first boats built for the fledgling Su
