The UK’s premier naval deployment of 2025 is underway as ships departed ports in England and Norway, led by the nation’s flagship. Aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales was waved off by thousands of ...

Plymouth-based frigate HMS Richmond today left the city to join the UK’s flagship on the Royal Navy’s headline deployment of 2025. The submarine hunter, which left Devonport Naval Base this morning, ...

Frigate HMS Richmond will be able to share more vital combat data even faster with other ships in the UK’s premier naval deployment of the year thanks to a tech upgrade. The Plymouth-based Type 23 is ...

Eleven Royal Navy sailors recovering from injury and illness tested their mettle alongside US counterparts at trials for the Wounded Warrior Games. The Brits were invited to cross the Pond for one of ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships shot down swarms of drones in a live-fire exercise off the Welsh coast. Taking on the kind of threats currently seen in the Red Sea and other regions, ...