SIXTY-seven years after she rolled over and sank in Scapa Flow, underwater archaeological experts have produced the most detailed sonar images of stricken giant HMS Royal Oak – images the ordinary camera could never capture.

THE Navy’s floating garage will continue to provide vital engineering support to the front-line fleet into the next decade.

BRITAIN is to press ahead with the successor to the Harrier after clinching a deal with US defence chiefs.

THERE’S nothing like traditional fare at Christmas when your thousands of miles from home.

MINEHUNTER HMS Atherstone headed into the fjords to test her engines, just one facet of a varied end to 2006 for the Crazy A.

HMS Endurance has been sailing around paradise in the latest stage of her deployment.

YOU wait all autumn for a homecoming and then six come all at once.

FAST patrol boat HMS Sabre left the confines of Gibraltarian waters to speed across the strait separating Europe from Africa for a rare foreign excursion.

ENGINEER Lt Polly Hatchard today sets off to finish what Ernest Shackleton started a century ago.

THE Royal Navy will continue to hold the right of the line into the second half of this century as bearer of Britain’s ultimate deterrent.

TONY Blair thanked the sailors of HMS York for their efforts to rescue Britons from war-torn Lebanon when he visited the destroyer in the Baltic.

THE taxpayer will have to fork out an extra £321m to see the first of its next-generation submarines and destroyers in the front line.

THIS is the best photograph which captured life in Britain’s Armed Forces in the past 12 months.

LIFE in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is four times safer than the rest of Britain’s Merchant Fleet.

MORE than 30,000 lbs of ordnance were dropped on terrorists in the first month’s operations by Fleet Air Arm Harriers over Afghanistan.