Royal Navy’s new counter-piracy warship HMS Trent sets sail for the Mediterranean

Royal Navy’s new counter-piracy warship HMS Trent sets sail for the Mediterranean to join Nato forces on mission to hunt international terrorists and criminal gangs Royal Navy warship HMS Trent sets sail from Portsmouth to join Nato in the Med Friends and family of the crew had to watch proceedings online due to Covid-19 The ship will … Read more

Royal Navy counter-piracy warship HMS Trent sailing to Med

Royal Navy’s new counter-piracy warship HMS Trent sets sail for the Mediterranean to join Nato forces on mission to hunt international terrorists and criminal gangs Royal Navy warship HMS Trent sets sail from Portsmouth to join Nato in the Med Friends and family of the crew had to watch proceedings online due to Covid-19 The ship will … Read more

Retired sailor completes HMS Victory replica after 51 years

A retired sailor is finally completing his painstaking model of HMS Victory – 51 years after he started it. Michael Byard first began work on the five feet long replica of Nelson’s flagship in 1969. But after two years he was forced to put the ‘labour of love’ aside as he concentrated on his career … Read more

HMS Queen Elizabeth ‘will be sent to the Far East to take part in military drills with US and Japan’

One of Britain’s new £3billion aircraft carriers could be sent to the Far East under new plans drawn up by military chiefs, reports today suggest. The class leading HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to visit the region during its maiden grand voyage next year. The aircraft carrier is set to be involved in joint military … Read more

Royal Navy frigate HMS Westminster shadows Russian warship

Royal Navy frigate HMS Westminster shadows Russian warship as it sails through English Channel HMS Westminster monitored the passage of the Russian warship on Sunday  Passage of warships through English Channel are routinely monitored  Commanding officer said the warship conducted itself in ‘safe’ manner  By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline Published: 18:07 BST, 21 June 2020 | … Read more

F35B Lightning jets from historic squadron land on £3bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth

The Dambusters join Big Lizzie! F35B Lightning jets from historic squadron land on £3bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for first time F-35 Lightning Jets have landed on HMS Queen Elizabeth as ‘Dambusters’ squadron join the aircraft carrier  The jets from 617 Squadron landed on board the 65,000-tonne warship off the coast of Portsmouth  The … Read more

HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to Portsmouth base after sea trials

Big Lizzie is back! HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to Portsmouth base after sea trials as crew prepare for further training with new F35 Lightning jet HMS Queen Elizabeth which set sail from anchor earlier in April to carry out sea training has returned to base Ship, which is 280 metres long and weighs 65,000 tonnes, … Read more

Windsor Castle staff tending to the Queen in ‘HMS Bubble’ are forced to spend a week in isolation

Windsor Castle staff tending to the Queen in ‘HMS Bubble’ are forced to spend a week in isolation and pass a coronavirus test before each three-week shift begins. The monarch, 94, went into self-isolation at the Berkshire estate nine weeks ago alongside her husband Prince Philip, 98, who moved from Sandringham amid the pandemic.    They are joined … Read more

Video shows water pouring in to £3billion HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier

We are bailing! Video shows water pouring in to £3billion HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier after sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth suffered the same fate A pipe leaked on the HMS Prince of Wales on Friday at Portsmouth Naval Base   A video on the Facebook group Jackspeak shows the warship’s ankle-high flood This comes … Read more

Royal Navy warship HMS Kent joins American destroyers for training mission

Royal Navy warship HMS Kent joins American destroyers USS Donald Cook and USS Porter and in the Arctic for cold-weather training HMS Kent joined two US Destroyers and an American nuclear submarine on a Arctic training mission  The Duke Class Frigate, which is based at Portsmouth, is equipped with a Merlin helicopter  The training exercise … Read more