Lt Ed Vaughan has yet to hold a Fleet
Air Arm helicopter in the hover position, but Polish naval
aviators didn’t mind allowing him taking the controls
of one of their submarine-hunting helicopters.
Many of the great seafaring nations
of the world want to send ships to this summer’s
International Festival of the Sea in Portsmouth – and
among them will be Noah’s Ark.
Officers from the former Soviet state
of Kazakhstan, now an independent republic, have visited
HMS Raleigh in Cornwall to see how they could best train
their expanding Navy.
Mr D. Thomson of Edinburgh wrote to Navy News
after seeing the famous photograph in our February issue
of the capsizing German cruiser Blucher at the Dogger Bank
action in World War I.
Royal Marines of 42 Commando headed
into the Scottish Highlands for their mountain training – and
experienced some of the Arctic-type chill that their comrades
were enduring in northern Norway.
Motor racing legend Jackie Stewart
is used to powerful machines, but he never got behind the
wheel of anything as powerful as a ballistic missile submarine
in his racing heyday.
The spectacular mountains of Nepal
attract visitors to the trekking trails, but members of
the ship’s company of HMS Ocean set out to the remote
Asian country for a very different reason.
It was a bit of a squeeze for those
on board Falkland Islands patrol vessel HMS Dumbarton Castle – but
it was only for a short time, and all in a good cause.
Health and fitness is a major concern
to the Royal Navy – and now HMS Invincible is showing
the way ahead in terms of a holistic approach to the issue.
