BRITAIN’S largest warship HMS Ocean is heading the nation’s Arctic war games.

FRIGATE HMS Lancaster will serve as the guardian of France’s flagship on a deployment east of Suez.

THE Royal Navy’s battle flag flutters once more aboard HMS Scylla.

TWENTY-FIVE years of hurt for Senior Service skiers came to an end on the Swiss slopes as C/Sgt Ross Barbour was crowned men’s champion at the Inter-Services Alpine Ski event.

THEY call her the ‘ice cream’ frigate.

THERE’S something about Rio...

Gulf-bound amphibious forces flagship HMS Bulwark has been working with the Yemeni Coastguard as part of the RN’s continuing efforts to foster good relations with sailors across the globe.

45 year-old CPO(MA) Kevin Shore had hitherto regarded marathon running as not for him, but while watching the London Marathon he rashly told his friends that he would like to compete in one.

THERE’S a publican, customer services rep, and an official receiver.

HMS Nelson hosted the Martial Arts Inter-Services Competition and the Royal Navy certainly excelled themselves on their home ground, particularly in the taekwondo section, where the other two Services scarcely had a look in.

FEELING your way around in stinking mud in poor visibility can be pretty unrewarding.

THE birthplace of naval aviation could purr with the sound of aero engines once more if multi-million pound plans receive Lottery support.

LESS than six years after the ban on homosexuality was lifted, leading campaign group Stonewall has praised the Navy as a ‘gay-friendly’ employer.

And a few sixes as well…

GUNFIRE reverberated around Plymouth Sound as the cannon of HMS Northumberland barked once more.

HMS Southampton arrived ‘just in time’ to save six fishermen as their boat was swamped in rough Caribbean seas.

PROOF of how far Argentina and Britain have come since the dark spring of 1982 was evidenced by a joint act of remembrance in the port of Ushuaia at the southernmost tip of the Americas.

HAILED as the world’s most advanced warship, for the first time HMS Daring sits in the water today having been launched in a fanfare on the Clyde.