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Gearing up for their crucial supporting role in the Navy’s biggest deployment in four years are the crew of Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker RFA Tidespring. The Tide-class vessel – one of four large ...
Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset returned home to Plymouth today after more than 100 intensive days on national tasking – including six operations tracking Russian vessels in UK waters. Sailors from ...
For the first time a fleet of drones will fly crucial supplies between ships of the UK Carrier Strike Group when it deploys to the Indo-Pacific later this month. Alongside its F35B stealth jets and ...
The UK’s F-35 Lightning jets will join Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales next week as they aim to declare full operating capability on a landmark mission to the Indo-Pacific. The 65,000-tonne ...
Royal Navy attack helicopters have been proving their prowess in taking down a range of threats as they prepare to deploy to the Indo-Pacific. The Wildcat helicopters from Yeovilton-based 815 Naval ...
The longest-serving ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary welcomed Members of Parliament aboard for a special visit ahead of rejoining front-line operations. RFA Argus has just completed a period of ...
A memorial plaque has been unveiled on the former home of a Royal Navy sailor who survived one of the biggest non-atomic explosions in history. Able Seaman William Becker was one of seven crew from ...
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the King’s Harbour Master that KHM Harbour Control will be renamed Portsmouth Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) effective 1 May 2025, and will use ‘Portsmouth VTS’ as their ...
Commando Wildcats were thrust into the maelstrom of aerial combat when they joined the RAF’s premier exercise of 2025. Run twice a year, Cobra Warrior is the Air Force’s principal air combat exercise ...
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN jointly by the King's Harbour Master Portsmouth (KHM) and the Harbour Master Portsmouth International Port (HM PIP) that the bunkering of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) at ...
Forty-five years of supporting naval aviation was celebrated at RNAS Yeovilton as the Fleet Air Arm’s reservist branch celebrated its birthday. Personnel gathered to mark the occasion – and celebrate ...
Sailors from HMS Prince of Wales reacted to serious emergencies – including aircraft crashes – during critical training in Portsmouth Naval Base. Personnel conducted a ‘crash-on-deck scenario’ as they ...