One of the Navy’s top officers has been reflecting on “an extraordinary and taxing year” as a result of which the Royal Navy’s reputation is “riding high”.

Nuclear submarine HMS Splendid has sailed from her home at Faslane for the last time after more than 20 years service in the Royal Navy.

The Royal Navy Presentation Team begins its latest tour early next month, with a programme of around 100 dates and a total audience of 15,000 people at venues across the country.

New River-class patrol ship HMS Tyne is making her presence felt – she has already managed the rare feat of two boardings at the same time, and her first ‘arrest’ has resulted in a prosecution.

One of the Royal Navy’s more unusual affiliations was further cemented when a mural was unveiled at Westminster underground station.

The Argentine Navy sail training frigate ARA Libertad is to pay an informal visit to Portsmouth next week.

Royal Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke is due back home in Portsmouth tomorrow after a seven-month deployment during which she made one of the biggest drugs seizures in Service history.

Britannia Royal Naval College is delighted to be getting a third Cornish pilot gig, a type now raced throughout the West Country.

The Ministry of Defence has published the ‘definitive guide to the Royal Navy’, covering every area of naval expertise from combat operations to training and logistics.

All at sea in a field of corn – people have been trying to puzzle out Admiral Lord Nelson at a farm near Portsmouth.

A former Royal Navy senior rate has helped strengthen links between the RN and the Japanese navy, the Maritime Self-Defence Force, by providing a bell rope for a historic battleship which was built in the UK.

Colleagues have opened a special fund to cover the medical expenses of a stalwart Navy veteran in Gibraltar – although they will continue to provide all his clothing and food, as they have done ever since he joined 11 years ago.

Six Sea Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) have returned to RN air station Yeovilton after a successful outing on Exercise Flying Fish in Malaysia.

Frigate HMS Cornwall has redeployed as flagship of the NATO Atlantic maritime force following a break in her home base at Devonport.

Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland has been lending one of the Royal Navy’s carriers a hand during a crucial training period.

A team of Royal Navy divers from Southern Diving Unit 2 safely blew up a huge German wartime bomb which was discovered off Southend.

A team of Royal Marines from HMS Sutherland have seized a ship smuggling oil out of Iraq.

The last ships involved in the conflict in Iraq have returned to Portsmouth and Devonport in the past few days.

Two more ships involved in the conflict off Iraq arrive back in the UK today – although these ships took the long way home from the Middle East.

The Royal Naval Commando Association has stood down at a final reunion in the Midlands after “60 years of comradeship forged in war and sustained in peace”

RFA tanker Brambleleaf has picked up the survivors of a blazing dhow in the Arabian Gulf.

Flying instructors Lts Mark Scott and Jamie Coulton from RN air station Yeovilton have picked up a prestigious award for their flying display at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

A year to the day after the destroyer ran aground on Wolfe Rock off the coast of Australia, HMS Nottingham has been refloated at Portsmouth Naval Base.

Four Portsmouth-based minehunters have returned to the UK after playing a crucial role in the assault on Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq and the immediate aftermath.

Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond has returned home to Portsmouth after an eventful six-month deployment which saw her in the gun line during the Allied assault on southern Iraq as well as carrying out defence diplomacy visits.