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Britain’s most powerful warship has set sail on a training exercise for eight weeks – despite two of its 700-strong crew testing positive for coronavirus. HMS Queen Elizabeth had been expected to take to the water from Portsmouth Naval Base at the start of the week, but the departure was delayed to allow the ship’s … Read more
Twenty two royal staff have sacrificed their home lives to stay isolated at Windsor Castle and serve Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip for the duration of the coronavirus lockdown. A memo issued to staff from the master of the household Tony Johnstone-Burt, 62, a former Royal Navy Officer called the mission to protect the Queen … Read more
A £1.6billion nuclear-powered submarine dubbed the ‘most capable ever built’ for the Royal Navy has been pictured setting sail for the first time. HMS Audacious, one of seven Astute-class attack subs being built by BAE Systems, departed Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Tuesday for its maiden journey. The ultra-advanced warship, said to ‘set a new standard in … Read more
Royal Navy’s newest and greenest warship HMS Tamar with technology that cuts diesel emissions by 90 per cent arrives at its Portsmouth home HMS Tamar has arrived at its Portsmouth Naval Base for the first time It is the fourth of five new offshore patrol vessels built in Glasgow shipyards The ship and its crew … Read more
The £3.1billion HMS Prince Of Wales has returned to its home base in Portsmouth just over a month after it first set sail. The Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier has returned from an eight-day stay in Liverpool where more than 20,000 members of the public had a chance to go onboard and meet some of its 700 … Read more
A new collection of artifacts have been pulled from the wreckage of the HMS Erebus, an English ship that became trapped by sea ice in the Canadian Arctic in 1846, leaving its 128-person crew to die under still mysterious circumstances. The artifacts were retrieved by a team of divers from Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team, … Read more