Royal Navy warships and aircraft shadowed a Russian task group in the English Channel in a concentrated operation this week. HMS Iron Duke, HMS Tyne, a Wildcat helicopter from 815 Naval Air Squadron ...

Royal Navy medics worked with Norwegian emergency services to rescue casualties buried under avalanches in critical training in the Arctic Circle. Medics from Plymouth-based 30 Commando Information ...

The SC250 bomb – 250 its weight in kilogrammes, half of it explosive – was dropped during a raid on the town and college in February 1943. It landed in what today is the college’s D Block (the ...

“The work of Britannia Royal Naval College is clearly a national asset we must protect and support.” The words of Mike Reader – Member of Parliament for Northampton South – and one of a group from the ...

A rare statue of a Royal Marines musician has been donated to the elite military band by one of its former stalwarts. In a career spanning four decades, George Latham performed for kings, queens, ...

Royal Navy experts have battled drifting mines, underwater explosions and drone attacks in a simulated exercise as part of strengthened NATO efforts to thwart subsea attacks. More than 140 mine ...

Crew of veteran Portsmouth minehunter HMS Cattistock are gearing up for a demanding patrol in the Gulf through equally-challenging training in the Scottish lochs and islands. From coping with fires ...

On National Apprenticeship Week, His Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth’s Naval Base Commander, Commodore Marcel Rosenberg, has opened up about his remarkable career journey, starting as a Royal Navy ...

Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is now formally linked with the flagship of the UK’s Merchant Fleet, cruise liner Queen Mary 2. Beneath a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II – who ...

Stunning imagery that peels back the curtain on the Royal Navy’s operations countering Houthi drones in the Red Sea have won awards at the Senior Service’s annual photography competition. Leading ...

Life at sea isn’t all about guns, missiles, fast-paced action, manoeuvres at close quarters. Sometimes it’s grimy, oily, dirty, backbreaking – and just as rewarding. It also largely unsung. Captains.

There will be many who follow, but Sara Young is the first ‘sailor of the year’ from the nation’s flagship to be crowned in the vessel’s affiliated city. The 25-year-old leading medical assistant ...