Two Portsmouth-based senior ratings posted highly commendable times when they took on the best of the world at the international indoor rowing championships.

Royal Navy footballers provided the icing on the cake for fans in their centenary year by taking the Inter-Services title in the Army’s own back yard.

Record-breaking numbers of sailors and Royal Marines headed to the French Alps this year for the Navy’s own Winter Olympics – the annual ski and snowboard championships.

Plymouth diver Steve ‘Scouse’ Vernon hopes to take part in one of the world’s most gruelling sporting challenges – taking his motorbike across the sands of the Sahara.

Royal Navy mountaineers are returning to the Himalayas to scale one of the range’s most demanding peaks.

A major boxing competition will see some of the best up-and-coming fighters in the country in the ring at HMS Nelson in Portsmouth.

THE boardriders of the Navy and Royal Marines are looking to hold on to their crown as kings of the waves on home territory as they prepare for this year’s Inter Services competition in the West Country.