As part of the UK’s VE Day 75th anniversary commemorations in May 2020, Seafarers UK is launching a Veterans Appeal to raise funds for seafaring veterans and their families… Seafarers UK – the charity created in 1917 as King George’s Fund for Sailors...
Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Tyne shadowed a Russian vessel through the English Channel on Christmas Day… The Portsmouth-based ship was called upon to sail on Christmas Eve and keep watch on the Russian ship Smolnyy Perekov as it passed close to UK territorial...
Royal Navy vessel HMS SCOTT is in Drake Passage to provide support to the Chilean military in their response to the loss of a C130 that went missing in the Southern Atlantic Ocean… British Forces’ South Atlantic Islands, based in the Falklands Islands, have...
There were cheers, tears and at least one proposal of marriage as HMS Kent returned home to Portsmouth… A four-month stint guarding shipping entering and leaving the Gulf ended – and with it a hectic 2019 for the frigate – when she came alongside the naval...
The bulk of the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group have returned to their respective homes after three months in the USA… Following HMS Dragon’s return earlier this week, the aircraft carrier made her way into Portsmouth, where she was greeted by sister...
HMS Prince of Wales sailed into her home port of Portsmouth for the first time at the weekend, marking a significant milestone in the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier history… Sailors stood atop the flight deck of the enormous carrier – the second of the largest...