AMPHIBIOUS flagship HMS Bulwark heads to the Middle East on her first deployment in a unique mission for the assault ship.

THE most coveted award in Britain’s Armed Forces for peace work rests in the hands of HMS Richmond for her hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean.

IT’S always good to go out on a high, and HMS Spartan’s final patrol proved to be a tour-of-duty to remember.

HOME just in time to put up the Christmas tree are the men and women of HMS Manchester, whose ship completed a four-month tour of duty today.

A MEMORIAL to the ‘forgotten’ heroes of a campaign obscured by history has been unveiled in Portsmouth.

NAVY divers were called to help a desperate search for fishermen believed to be trapped in the capsized hull of their trawler off Beachy Head.

THE flagships of the future fleet have taken major steps with shipyards selected to build the Royal Navy’s super-carriers.

AS the snows begin to arrive in the mountains of Kashmir, so too are Royal Marines and commando engineers.

THE nameplate of battle-cruiser HMS Repulse is back in Britain after a spell in the Far East.

A RESCUE team from patrol ship HMS Mersey prevented a fishing boat from sinking in the Irish Sea.

THE OUTGOING Second Sea Lord handed over the keys to his office asserting “life in the Naval Service has improved significantly”.

THE Countess of Wessex will perform the honours when the first of the much-heralded Type 45 destroyers is launched on February 1.

THE patrol boats of the Cyprus Squadron will have a greater role in readying major RN vessels for front-line deployments in the future.

THE FIRST ship to be built in Portsmouth Naval Base in nearly four decades will be ‘launched’ next June.

I was delighted when I was asked to help Chris Terrill get the unique access he needed to get right to the heart of the Royal Navy,” enthused Lt Heather Tuppen.

THE CREW of Sea King helicopter ‘Rescue 193’ have been presented with the Prince Philip Helicopter Rescue Award, for an operation during last year’s Boscastle floods, described as one of the greatest feats of Search and Rescue flying.

SAILORS in HMS Cumberland and RFA Wave Knight struck a ‘sledgehammer blow’ at drug traffickers when they pounced on a speedboat hurtling across the Caribbean packing £200m of cocaine.

YOU might not have noticed it but a revolution swept through the sleepy hollows of Devonshire this autumn.

A GIANT mural of Leading Seaman James Magennis VC now dominates a gable wall on a loyalist estate at Tullycarnet in East Belfast, replacing one that was dedicated to the Ulster Freedom Fighters.