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12 May 2008
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May's News & Features
Lynx crash fatalities back in UK
31.05.06 16:03

THE BODIES of five British Service personnel, including two from the Naval service, killed by a helicopter crash in Iraq on May 6 have arrived back on British soil.

Back to Crete
26.05.06 12:01

SIXTY-five years after the bitter battle for Crete HMS Gloucester returned to the spot her forebear sank to pay her respects.

AB Sea Dee
25.05.06 16:21

NOT one but two major Royal Navy assets greeted solo yachtswoman Dee Caffari as she entered the record books at the end of a global challenge.

Honing anti-terror skills
25.05.06 08:51

THE constant vigil against international terrorism continues in the Middle Eastern theatre with HM Ships Gloucester and St Albans standing guard.

Barmy weather in the Bahamas
23.05.06 12:39

FED up with the British weather? Rain getting you down?

Cold waters, warm hearts
22.05.06 12:57

ICE patrol ship HMS Endurance has returned to Britain bearing a clearer picture of the mysterious depths which surround the fragile continent of Antarctica.

Whats Fine about Navy News Online?
19.05.06 14:16

Navy News is looking to spruce up its web-based counterpart Navy News Online.

Learn with Clyde
18.05.06 16:07

Line dancing, yoga, drumming and flower arranging – not subjects you would usually ssociate with HM Naval Base Clyde...

Royal Navy divers clear World War 2 bomb from the Mersey
17.05.06 9:45

Yesterday evening saw the dramatic conclusion to aday’s disruption in the Mersey estuary when divers from the Navy’s Northern Diving Group detonated a World War 2 bomb, creating a plume 16m high and 10m wide.

750NAS Observers take action
15.05.06 15:46

‘SHELTER Boxes’, packed with the basic needs for human survival, are winging their way to the people of the Sudan as the result of work by Royal Navy Observers training at 750 Squadron in Culdrose in Cornwall.

Return of the Saint
12.05.06 14:26

FRIGATE HMS St Albans is back where she began her active life... in the waters of the northern Arabian Gulf.

Starling is the Darling of Drake
11.05.06 16:54

THE deeds of Capt ‘Johnnie’ Walker and HMS Starling will never be forgotten by senior rates at HMS Drake.

A ferry good performance
10.05.06 09:53

THE Princess Royal was serenaded by Devonport Royal Naval Volunteer Band in a rather unusual setting – one of two high-profile performances by the musicians this spring.

To the heroes of Crete
09.05.06 12:35

Destroyer HMS Gloucester has paid her respects to her forebear, 65 years after the Royal Navy suffered a mauling in the Battle of Crete.

Tanker heads for the sun
08.05.06 09:21

FLEET tanker RFA Wave Ruler has gratefully left cold European waters behind to take up station in the Caribbean.

Eye Robot flies
05.05.06 11:57

FOR the first time an unmanned plane has been launched and recovered by a British warship.

Ledbury saves stricken yacht
04.05.06 11:46

A BOARDING team from HMS Ledbury broke off from fishery protection duties to save a yacht from sinking in the Thames estuary.

Liverpool enjoys a purple reign
03.05.06 08:58

HMS Liverpool has been welcoming dozens of new faces on board on her South Atlantic tour of duty.

 
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