ROYAL MARINES Tim Welford
and Dom Mee will need more than a stroke of luck to see them
through their next adventure. In May they will paddle away
from the coast of Japan at the start of a 5,000-mile row
across the Pacific to America.
ROYAL Navy nuclear submarines
with new pipework could be back in service by the summer
as a result of a repairs programme which is expected to last
for most of this year.
PICTURED inside one of the
Northern Diving Group's decompression chambers enjoying a
snack are (left to right) PO Diver Billy Bean, CPO Diver
Graham Bean and PO Diver Tony Bean.
BRITAIN has set its sights
on the Joint Strike Fighter for the Royal Navy's future aircraft
carriers and signed a £1.3 billion deal with America at the
start of the biggest military procurement programme in history.
A Royal Navy warship on fishery
protection duties in the North Sea found a Dutch trawler
had caught more than it had bargained for - a World War Two
mine.
A VISIT to Port Victoria
in the Seychelles gave HMS Scott a break from her Indian
Ocean deployment for a crew rotation and some well-earned
rest and relaxation for the ship's company.
Admiral Sir Nigel Essenhigh
has become the professional head of the Royal Navy after
taking over the post of First Sea Lord from Admiral Sir Michael
Boyce.
PORTSMOUTH ship repairers
Fleet Support Ltd (FSL) are working on at least five jobs
in one with the regular maintenance of the Royal Navy's veteran
assault ship HMS Fearless.
THE REMARKABLE organisational
skills of S/Lt Tom Brady have earned him a commendation from
the Commanding Officer of the newly formed Joint Helicopter
Command at RN Air Station Yeovilton.
THE SQUADRON in charge of
training a new generation of airmen to fly the Merlin helicopter
has welcomed Lt Cdr Stephen Bradburn as its new Commanding
Officer.
A RARE honour was bestowed
on CPO Taff Williams when he was awarded a clasp to his Long
Service and Good Conduct Medal at Clyde Naval Base, marking
30 years of exceptional service to the Royal Navy.
A FLEET Air Arm pilot became
the first Briton to fly a Joint Strike Fighter when he took
off from Edwards Air Force Base in Boeing's JSF X-32A conventional
take off and landing technology demonstrator.
PERSONNEL on board one of
the Navy's busiest floating storehouses have taken a break
from their hectic work in keeping the Fleet supplied to make
a special delivery to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
in Plymouth.
AFTER 14 years in the Royal
Naval Reserve, Lt John Welsh has fulfiled his ambition of
joining the Royal Navy by taking up the appointment of WE
Training Manager at HMS Collingwood.
A PROJECT to replace Britain's
submarine rescue vessel has got under way with the award
of a contract for the first phase of the scheme to W.S. Atkins
of Bristol.
HMS IRON Duke had a chance
meeting with the BT Global Challenge fleet deep in the South
Atlantic - and it brought back memories for one of the yachtsmen.
EIGHT years of continuous
service to United Nations and NATO operations in the former
Republic of Yugoslavia have come to an end with the withdrawal
of 845 Naval Air Squadron from Split and their return to
their base at Yeovilton in Somerset.
DIVER Darren Jones's outstanding
leadership skills have landed him the prestigious Magennis
Trophy, a prize for top-notch students in the Navy's Leading
Hands Leadership Course.
HMS YORK received a warm
welcome at the one of the largest naval bases in Italy as
she made her way back to Portsmouth at the end of a four-month
deployment.
NAVY explosives expert CPO(D)
Mark Holroyd has been awarded the Queen's Commendation for
Bravery for leading a four-man team in the "challenging" clearance
of a 500lb wartime bomb found on the waterfront in Plymouth.
