HMS Lancaster, ‘The Queen’s Frigate,’ celebrates the official birthday of her lady sponsor, Her Majesty The Queen by ‘dressing ship’ in Key West, Florida. HMS Lancaster, one of the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigates, visited Key West 15 June 2013 as part of her six-month deployment to the North Atlantic
A recently retired Royal Navy Commodore has been recognised for 35 years dedicated service to the UK in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Until retiring in February this year, John Keegan was Commodore Maritime Reserves, based at Royal Navy Headquarters on Whale Island, Portsmouth. But it was for h
A 21-gun salute was fired by the Royal Navy on Saturday (June 15) to mark the Queen’s Official Birthday. The saluting gun at Fort Blockhouse at Gosport – at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour – was fired at 12 noon by six specialist gunnery instructors from HMS Collingwood at Fareham. Petty Officer
4,500 miles from home, sailors of HMS Lancaster celebrate Father’s Day 2.5 weeks into her 6 month deployment to the North Atlantic and Caribbean. With many sailors missing their fathers at home, it was the turn for the fathers on board to open their cards. One of the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigates HM
The newly refurbished Devonport Naval Heritage Centre, which unveiled historical secrets to the public, has been declared a success by attracting over 1,200 visitors during the inaugural Plymouth History Festival. Intrigued visitors, including base staff and families, poured into the base on the two
Romanian helicopter manufacturer IAR Brasov has chosen Thales to supply TMS 2000 sonobuoy processors to equip IAR-330 Pumahelicopters operated by the Romanian Navy. The processors will give the Romanian Navy a decisive anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability to detect submarines in the Black Sea, in
The final section of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two new aircraft carriers being built for the UK Royal Navy, has left BAE Systems’ shipyard at Scotstoun today to embark on a 600 mile journey to Rosyth. The Aft Island, also known as Upper Block 14, is the air traffic control tower of the [&hel
Proud Naval Reservists from HMS King Alfred, Portsmouth’s Royal Navy Reserve Unit represented the Senior Service on 13 June by leading the Colour Party bearing the White Ensign into Winchester’s Shipping Festival. Chief Petty Officer Ken Turley, Petty Officer Ian Lane and Leading Hand Miranda Crackn
The region comes to a crisis and United Nations Security Council is adopting a resolution legitimizing the international group of ships to come into the region and stabilize the situation. This is the basic assumption for the scenario of this year’s BALTOPS exercise. Eight Polish Navy ships, two hel
HMS Dragon Escorts Gigantic LNG Carrier through Strait of Hormuz HMS Dragon helped shepherd a gigantic gas tanker through one of the world’s most important ‘choke points’ during an exercise to hone protecting sea trade. Multinational Amphibious Exercise Dawn Blitz 2013 Kicks Off Marines and sailors
Turkish Armed Forces have successfully completed the biggest Turkish national joint exercise, EFES 2013. The joint exercise was executed in the last two weeks of May in Seferhisar province of the city of İzmir on the west coast of Turkey. It was reported that a total of 7,000 troops, 23 different ty
NATO’s Operation OCEAN SHIELD Commander Commodore Henning Amundsen met on Thursday, 13 June 2013, with the Combined Maritime Force Task Force 151 Commander, Commodore Muhammad Ihsan Quadir on board the NATO Flagship HNoMS FRIDTJOF NANSEN. The commanders of the two naval forces meet regularly to disc
