Fresh from their
session at ‘top gun’ school in the North Sea,
Britain’s last remaining front-line Sea Harrier squadron
made the short hop across the Channel to put theory into practice
with NATO colleagues.
Royal Navy personnel
helped ensure elections in free Iraq ran smoothly in the south
of the country, as the men they had trained set an example
to potential local voters.
The Royal Navy
has been given a “thoroughly deserved” three per
cent pay rise by the Government in a bid to bolster recruitment,
retention and motivation.
Stonewall has
announced that the Royal Navy is to work with the group’s
Diversity Champions Programme to promote good working conditions
for existing and potential employees, and to ensure equal
treatment for those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual.
Members of the
Cyprus branch of the Royal Naval Association were guests aboard
the Royal Navy’s latest hydrographic/oceanographic survey
ship, HMS Enterprise, when she docked in Limassol.
A sharp-eyed
lookout in a Royal Fleet Auxiliary supply ship saved the life
of a shipwrecked Yemeni fisherman – although the rescue
came a day too late for the man’s companion.
The Royal Navy’s
new amphibious assault ship HMS Albion has enjoyed a four-day
visit to New York to round off a successful – if chilly
– set of trials as she prepares for front-line duties.
A Royal Navy
survey ship has provided scientists with the first detailed
images of the sea bed which triggered the devastating Boxing
Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
The White Ensign
has been flown in some unusual places over the years –
a church in East London, the summit of Mount Everest and a
Canadian frontier fort, to name just three.
A honeymoon in
paradise turned into a nightmare for one Royal Navy rating
– but being a sailor he was soon putting his skills
to good use in restoring some semblance of normality for a
shocked and bedraggled group of locals and holidaymaker.
The revolution
in Service accommodation which is sweeping through the Royal
Navy has reached HMS Drake, with three stark tower blocks
being demolished
to make way for 21st century ‘cabins’.
The final ship
of the Fleet’s four new auxiliary landing ships will
take to the water in a couple of the months as the revolution
in the RN’s amphibious forces reaches its final stages.
A temporary exhibition
in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard takes World War II as a starting
point to examine such issues as commemoration, conflict and
citizenship.
