Aircraft carrier HMS ARK Royal
is due home next month after taking part in Exercise Argonaut
02, the British-led maritime deployment to the Central Mediterranean
which began in September.
The Navy’s new class
of Type 45 destroyer could carry a revolutionary waste management
system designed by British defence scientists to meet stringent
anti-pollution legislation around the world.
Unusually for a new ship,
HMS St Albans has just undertaken a ten-day period at NATO
FORACS – Fleet Operational Readiness Accuracy Check
Site – on the coast of Norway.
Crippled destroyer HMS Nottingham
has been lifted clear of the water in Sydney Harbour in preparation
for her voyage home, which is due to begin at the weekend
or soon after.
The BBC is producing a radio
series on the history of the Royal Navy – and is looking
for people who sailed in the wartime HMS Ark Royal or with
Force H.
A successful run at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe has prompted a Navy acting troupe to stage
a production in Portsmouth next year – and return to
the Scottish capital in 2004.
The full programme of events
on Merseyside next year to mark the 60th anniversary of the
Battle of the Atlantic – the last full-scale commemoration
to be planned – has now been released.
Every year the Royal Navy
Presentation Team takes the First Sea Lord’s message
to more than 100 different locations, travelling over 20,000
miles and talking face-to-face to around 15,000 people in
a wide cross-section of the community.
Despite moving to RNAS Yeovilton
in 1999, the long memory of the Lynx community still harks back
to their ‘spiritual home’ of almost 20 years –
Portland and HMS Osprey.
What more could a sailor want?
A shore job on an island surrounded by blue seas, with virgin
white sands, loads of birds, cheap beer – and extra
money for being there.
It is 20 years ago today that
the sodden timbers of the Tudor warship Mary Rose broke the
surface of the Solent after more than 400 years on the seabed.
A Royal Navy frigate has seized
drugs with an estimated street value of one billion dollars
after a multi-national operation in the Caribbean which started
on Monday.
Echo, this is Echo... It is
not a regular occurrence for two ships of the same name to
meet each other on the high seas – especially when one
is a direct descendant of the other.
The first 21st-century fishery
protection ship for the Royal Navy has been officially named
HMS Tyne at Vosper Thornycroft’s (VT) shipyard at Woolston.
For Plymouth-based HMS Sutherland,
trips to her affiliated county in the far north of Scotland
are few and far between because of the constraints of the
ship’s programme.
A Royal Navy couple, Lt Cdr
Nobby Hall and his wife Helen, a former Chief Petty Officer,
are sponsoring an injured rare owl that was found in need
of care at the Cyprus military base.
The Royal Navy has chosen
another jump jet to replace the celebrated Sea Harrier –
and two massive 'adaptable' carriers which will be able to
operate aircraft well past the middle of the century.
