The Queen has presented honours and awards at Buckingham Palace to members of the Armed Forces for their service on Operation Telic and in support of Operation Telic in Iraq between March 19 and April 19.

Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal has arrived in London at the start of a six-day visit to the capital which will see her host a series of events.

Say hello to the LO – because the Royal Navy Supply Branch is now known as the Logistics Branch, bringing the Logistics Officer (LO) into being.

Particularly powerful sunglasses were the order of the day at the home of Royal Navy officer training as staff and cadets at Britannia Royal Naval College left traditional Service ties at home for something a bit more individual.

HMS Brocklesby’s first fishery protection patrol of 2004 took her clockwise around Britain – though she covered twice the distance usually required for a circumnavigation.

Sailors providing Britain’s ultimate deterrent have not been deterred from picking up new qualifications as their submarine patrols the depths.

The Navy’s most important historical site will undergo a transformation in coming years as Portsmouth dockyard looks to bolster flagging visitor numbers.

This year’s International Air Day at RN air station Yeovilton is to celebrate the evolution of maritime aviation.

Royal Navy explosives experts have been clearing wartime shells from a beach in Norfolk.

A flotilla of Royal Navy warships is heading for the Arctic Circle to take part in a major cold weather training exercise in the Narvik region of Norway.

From the unforgiving sands of the desert to the dangerous wreck-strewn waterways of southern Iraq, the Sea King helicopters of 846 Naval Air Squadron have been tested to the extreme in seven challenging – but rewarding – months attempting to bring stability to a nation ravaged by Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime.

One of the Navy’s last living links with the Grand Fleet of World War I was treated to a 100th birthday celebration at the spiritual home of the Green Berets.

One hundred years ago this month a less-than-successful attack by Japanese naval forces on the Russian Far East Fleet opened a war which reverberated through the following decades.

An area of significant expansion in the Defence sphere has been addressed with the opening of two new classrooms at the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre at Chicksands in Bedfordshire.

A database containing details of all Naval deaths in service since the middle of the 20th century has been handed over to the Navy – and will be used to create a new national memorial.

Students from Burton College have been getting a taste of life in the Royal Navy, when they spent a week at HMS Raleigh, the Navy’s major training establishment in Torpoint, Cornwall.

Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal returns to Scottish waters this week to conduct flying operations off the east coast before a visit alongside at Babcock Rosyth Dockyard over the coming weekend.

Plenty of sailors can boast a proud maritime pedigree, but none possesses the unique family history of HMS Turbulent crew member Lt Patrick Ryan.

A quiet stretch of woodland by the Hamble River in Hampshire, now used by people walking their dogs and enjoying picnics in the summer, was once the site of something akin to a small town.

A Royal Navy Lynx helicopter operating from HMS Endurance has crashed in the Antarctic, injuring the flight crew of five.

A witness to a submarine tragedy more than 80 years ago has attended the annual memorial service to the 32 men who died in the accident.

A major military display at an international air show has had to be cancelled as operational commitments continue to demand manpower which would otherwise be available for the event.

Nuclear submarine HMS Triumph is to undergo a refit which should allow her to continue front-line operations for up to 20 years.

It will be ‘Up Spirits’ in Wetherspoons’ popular pub in Newport, South Wales, as it is to be renamed the John Wallace Linton, in memory of wartime hero Cdr Linton VC DSO DSC, a local man.

Cocaine worth around £20m has been seized from drugs smugglers in the Caribbean thanks to effort of fleet tanker RFA Wave Knight and American Coast Guard forces.

The nameplate and badge from wartime destroyer HMS Wakeful are to be handed over to the Royal Navy’s historical collection following a maritime safety operation off the coast of Belgium.

The Royal Navy’s top sailor says the nation must better understand the importance of the sea – especially as plans to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar take shape.

The aviation training ship RFA Argus is due back in Plymouth today following a multi-million pound refit in Falmouth.

The days of the navigator poring over paper charts, pencil poised, are numbered after the Royal Navy ordered £10m of hi-tech equipment to introduce electronic charts to the Fleet.