HISTORIC Pembroke Castle provided the magnificent mise-en-scène for the men and women of minehunter HMS Pembroke as they received not one but civic honours in a day.

NO MORE fish for the men and women of HMS Chiddingfold.

CEREMONIES up and down the land marked the first presentations of the longed-for Arctic Emblem – the official badge which honours the sacrifices made by the men of the Russian convoys six decades ago.

A YEAR ago much of the nation watched as the rain lashed Nelson’s flagship and the Navy paid homage to its greatest hero.

STUDENTS serving with three Royal Navy units spent the university hiatus going ‘over the top’.

THE supreme musicians of the Royal Marines Band will celebrate the life of one of their own next month at a concert in Portsmouth.

THE unsung work of HMS York off Lebanon has come to an end

PORTSMOUTH-based frigate HMS Westminster headed for the Malay peninsula on the latest stage of her six-month Volans06 tour of duty

VETERAN destroyer HMS Liverpool is hosting the Queen as she pays an official visit to Estonia.

AWAY from home since June, hunter-killer HMS Superb can now trumpet her achievements in the war on terror as she’s back in Scotland.

OUT of action for 18 months during a major refit in Portsmouth, HMS Richmond has now been officially accepted back into the Senior Service.

NAVAL buffs on the Clyde should take a long look at HM Ships Ramsey and Blyth... because they won’t see them again for at least two years.

THE first next-generation Harriers have been delivered to the new home of the jump jet.

SAILORS and Marines heading to war zones will receive a tax-free bounty in recognition of their dangerous service.

ONCE Royal, always Royal.

IT’S a good decade since the tarmac at Lee-on-the-Solent rumbled with naval aviators taking to the skies.

THE Navy’s sole front-line jet squadron has donned its spurs once more to give Royal Marines aerial punch in Afghanistan.

After four years of careful restoration, the Captain’s personal barge from HMS Ark Royal IV has been returned to her full glory, winning two trophies at the Thames Traditional Boat Rally.

The crew of survey ship HMS Scott is now entitled to bear arms in Swansea – the 13,500-tonne ocean survey ship has been awarded the freedom of the city.

At the end of September, carrier HMS Ark Royal began her life back at sea, heading out into the Firth of Forth – under her own steam for the first time in nearly two and a half years.

Barely six months after decommissioning, the badges of 801 Naval Air Squadron are being dusted off in the unfamiliar surroundings of Rutland as the famous unit begins to re-form.

KEVIN Costner.

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