Two Type 42 destroyers are back at sea after long lay-offs.

The Navy’s Black Duke is back in her home port and almost ready to rejoin the Fleet.

Scottish-based Royal Navy rescue helicopters have won the Senior Service’s top media award for 2002.

One of Britain’s foremost artists is displaying a collection of his work at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.

A new exhibition opening at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on May 1 will feature the greatest collection of personal items, paintings and exhibits ever assembled on Elizabeth I.

Members of the Scharnhorst Association are to hold their final reunion at Wilhelmshaven in Germany on October 9-12 to mark the 60th anniversary of her destruction at the Battle of North Cape on Boxing Day, 1943.

THE glittering canyons and soaring edifices of London’s Docklands formed the perfect setting for the overseas debut of the pride of the Dutch Navy.

Successful deployments overseas with the Americans and Portuguese have been followed by a training session a little closer to home for the Sea Harriers of 801 Naval Air Squadron.

The dashing captain at the helm of fictional Type 23 HMS Suffolk is Cdr Martin Brooke, played by actor Alex Ferns who in a former life was Eastenders baddie Trevor.

As ever, brass gleams and silver shines on the former Royal Yacht Britannia at the port of Leith in Edinburgh as the men and women in her current ‘crew’ clean, polish and prepare for Britannia’s 50th birthday festivities.

The sea is a crucial element in Cornish life – according to the tourist brochures, nowhere in the county is more than 16 miles from salt water.

The focus of world attention may be on the war in Iraq, but no one should forget that it is business as usual in other parts of the globe, according to one of our most senior officers.

Devonport frigate HMS Northumberland has now taken up her duties with the Mediterranean NATO squadron, giving her ship’s company a wide range of activities to keep them occupied.

Rear Admiral Richard Kelshall is used to being a trailblazer. The first Admiral in the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force was also the first Trinidadian to become a senior officer after starting as a sea cadet.

Royal Navy warship HMS Iron Duke has been proving her versatility on her current Atlantic Patrol Task (North) deployment, with two very different commitments in the space of a few days.

The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), as it became known in 1958, celebrates its centenary this year.

The former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Betty Boothroyd, is to address this year’s Royal British Legion Women’s Section annual conference on April 10, while actress Liz Smith will be presented with the Golden Purse, a fund-raising initiative for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.

There was a traditionally warm Geordie welcome for new River-class patrol vessel HMS Tyne when she paid her first visit to the North East.

Surveying work may be a major part of her deployment, but HMS Endurance also manages to fit in a regular programme of training exercises which are particularly suited to the far south – including ice-cliff winching and diving.

The Navy’s new assault ship HMS Albion is due to arrive in Plymouth Sound today for the first visit to the city which will be her home for up to 30 years.

Work has officially started on the Royal Navy’s new class of destroyers at the BAE Systems Govan shipyard in Glasgow.