Farewell, Big Lizzie! Hundreds of wellwishers watch HMS Queen Elizabeth set sail from Portsmouth as £3bn aircraft carrier trains for first mission to the Med The £3 billion warship took over the role of fleet flagship last year and will be at the centre of a strike group She is set to return at the … Read more
A Royal Navy warship has monitored a Russian attack submarine as the vessel travelled through British waters. Portsmouth-based patrol ship HMS Mersey tracked the surfaced submarine, RFS Rostov Na Donu, as it moved through the North Sea and the English Channel. The Kilo-class diesel powered attack submarine was moving through on its journey from the Baltic … Read more
A sad end for HMS Active, which survived Falklands War battles, only to be used as target practice and sunk in Pakistan navy drill HMS Active is a Type 21 frigate which was transferred to Pakistan in 1994 The frigate was sunk during a Pakistan navy drill in the North Arabian Sea Type-21 Class frigate … Read more
Britain’s newest aircraft carrier will be stranded in Portsmouth until May next year after a second flood wrecked the vessel’s vital electrical systems. HMS Prince of Wales has been banned from setting sail from its home port on safety grounds after thousands of gallons of sea water poured into the vessel’s engine room for more … Read more
A Royal Navy ship was given a hero’s welcome this morning as it returned to port in Portsmouth after shadowing and gatherings intelligence on Russian warships travelling around the UK. HMS Lancaster returned to the naval base in Hampshire having completed a tour to the High North where it led a freedom of navigation operation, leading a multi-national task group … Read more
Royal Navy warship HMS Tyne shadows Russian intelligence gathering vessel and her supporting tanker in UK waters off north west coast of Scotland Patrol ship HMS Tyne has kept close watch on Viktor Leonov and Sergey Osipov Have been sailing around Moray Firth, where they sheltered from Storm Aiden Tyne is part of Task Force One, … Read more
Scuppered! Britain’s £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has a 3ft water leak in its engine room — its second deluge in the past five months HMS Prince of Wales suffered a leak in the £3.1-billion vessel’s engine room It is the second time the new aircraft carrer has suffered a leak this year … Read more
The Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has returned to base after two Russian bombers headed straight towards it while it was part of exercises in the North Sea. Hundreds of families and well-wishers lined the harbour walls to welcome home the 65,000-tonne warship as it sailed into Portsmouth Naval Base. Earlier on Thursday, the … Read more
These images show Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth leading the largest and most powerful task force assembled by a European Navy in almost 20 years. The £3billion aircraft carrier – the joint largest in the Royal Navy’s history – was the crown jewel in a flotilla of nine ships which form the UK’s new Carrier Strike … Read more
Falklands flagship HMS Hermes reaches her final destination – a breakers’ yard where she will be turned into scrap metal Veteran aircraft carrier HMS Hermes has made her final voyage to the scrapheap She was the flagship of the British fleet during the Falklands war in 1982 Hermes carried up to 21 Harrier jets, five Sea … Read more