A Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker has made history by conducting a replenishment at sea (RAS) with a Mexican warship.

Royal Navy boxing stalwart POPT Q Shillingford couldn’t escape the ring – even when he crossed the Atlantic with youngsters visiting New York City.

At sea, somewhere in the Gulf of Oman, ten warships supporting Operation Enduring Freedom met up to consider their next step in the ongoing operations in the Arabian Sea.

Just weeks after she descended to her new watery home, the former HMS Scylla is surpassing expectations as a tourist attraction.

The first trainees to undergo a revolutionary Royal Navy training programme passed into the Fleet this month.

Attack submarine HMS Turbulent visited the western home of the Royal Australian Navy for a break during an eventful deployment.

Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent and Command Warrant Officer Eddie Seaborne worked in tandem to promote National Bike 2 Work Day.

Navy senior rate Sharon Hall has her son Christopher to thank for her new status as a millionaire.

The eight Royal Navy personnel detained by the Iranians on Monday have been freed and have left the country.

One of NATO’s four standing Naval forces has visited Edinburgh – namesake city of the British representative in the group.

British diplomats are still waiting for official confirmation that eight Royal Navy personnel seized by the Iranians on the country’s border with Iraq are to be released.

Landlocked Birmingham saw a sea of Naval blue march through its heart, when RN Reservists from HMS Forward exercised the ancient right to receive the Freedom of the City of Birmingham.

Eight Royal Navy personnel have been detained by Iranian authorities after they were picked up in the waterways on the border of Iran and Iraq.

Fresh from being granted the freedom of the city of Wells, the ship’s company of HMS Somerset have sailed to ensure the freedom of the high seas.

Frigates HMS Argyll and HMS Campbeltown, based at Devonport, are amongst the ships taking part in what is believed to be the largest Royal Navy and RAF-led maritime training exercise ever seen in Scottish waters.

The first vessel to be built in Portsmouth Naval Base for 37 years has been named in a ceremony held in Bay B of VT Shipbuilding’s main ship assembly hall.

Ideas are needed to help maritime leaders renew the British public’s links with the sea.

40 Commando Royal Marines is starting to deploy to Iraq as part of the routine adjustments to British forces in the Gulf.

As shipmates gather in their hundreds in Portsmouth for the Royal Naval Association Annual Conference tomorrow, one of the Association’s magazine editors has delivered some home truths to branches who failed to send a delegate to Chatham last year.

Sailors from a Royal Navy destroyer have paid their respects to their forebears in a moving ceremony in the Far East.

Bravery and devotion by experienced minewarfare rating Pete Mills in the Gulf have been recognised by the RN’s senior front-line officer.

The historic heart of Portsmouth Naval Base could be turned into a bustling residential and business quarter under radical plans unveiled by its commander.

Offshore patrol ship HMS Dumbarton Castle is getting ready to face the rigours of the South Atlantic again following a major overhaul in Scotland.

Rolls Royce has won a £47 million contract to provide and operate a new submarine rescue system for Britain, France and Norway.

Two Royal Navy frigates have collided during manoeuvres in the Channel ten miles off Plymouth.

Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral James Burnell-Nugent has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, which were published over the weekend.

Two members of a Royal Navy search and rescue team have been nominated for an award following a mission which saved the life of an injured yachtsman.

Sister ships from different nations met off the East Coast of the United States to honour their common link as D-Day commemorations were still fresh in the mind.

A symbolic crossing from Portsmouth to Normandy at the weekend represented an upbeat conclusion to a busy five-month deployment to the Middle East and beyond for Royal Navy destroyer HMS Gloucester.

Not content with producing Northern Europe’s first sunken reef, the National Marine Aquarium is shortly to offer tourist trips to sea – in a submarine.

Up to 1,600 French sailors are expected to enjoy a run ashore while their ship anchors in the Solent on a visit to mark the centenary of Entente Cordiale.

Veterans gathered on the beaches of Normandy to hear world leaders pay tribute to them and their colleagues who died in the D-Day Landings.

Devonport Naval Base is to open its gates to the public this weekend – and visitors will notice a distinct D-Day theme to the occasion.

Minor footnotes in wars can have far-reaching effects, though they never achieve the celebrity status that they perhaps deserve, writes Mike Gray, Deputy Editor of Navy News.

The gala dinner, in the splendid glass landmark of the Rica Seilet Hotel built at the edge of the fjord, was just one example of the tidal wave of hospitality which engulfed the Glasgow men and often left them shaking their heads as their honoured status sat uncomfortably with their modesty.

The Thursday evening saw an astonishing demonstration of the strength of feeling in Molde about the events 64 years before, when a talk on the events of the fateful night – an activity held on a regular basis – attracted a gathering which the Mayor estimated at well over 1,000 people, many of whom had made the effort because of the presence of the veterans in their town.

Veteran Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) 102 will be escorting a ferry carrying D-Day veterans as they travel from Portsmouth to France on Saturday June 5 for the commemorations marking the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

At the height of his naval career Victor Konusov would not have wanted to be anywhere near Royal Navy attack submarine HMS Triumph – but now he said he felt at home on the British boat.