THE highest military award for peace work has been presented to HMS Chatham for her efforts to rebuild life in the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami.

ROYAL Marine Commandos have maintained the pressure on insurgents and criminals on the waterways of Iraq.

SPUTNIK sits atop Portsdown Hill ready to pave the way for the next-generation of British destroyers.

HMS Campbeltown has taken her place in the line alongside Allied warships in Combined Task Force 150, enforcing Operation Enduring Freedom on the high seas.

HMS Lancaster was at the heart of the party as islanders in Grenada celebrated 33 years of independence.

ROYAL Marine Commandos have been at the heart of the largest operation by British forces in Basra since the Saddam regime was toppled nearly four years ago.

AIRCRAFT carrier HMS Ark Royal has been dousing her upper decks with water during the latest stage of Basic Operational Sea Training in the English Channel.

THE home of naval diving and bomb disposal has been named for one its pioneering heroes.

FIFTEEN years after she last sailed under her own steam Falklands veteran HMS Intrepid will finally be broken up – or in modern ‘green’ parlance ‘recycled retirement’.

MORE than three decades after she echoed regularly with the cries and commands of sailors, life was breathed into HMS Cavalier once again by men of the sea.

A FIVE-strong force of minehunters opened 2007 with a concerted sweep of the approaches to two of the nation’s greatest ports – offering up some hidden surprises.

THIS is a “mind-boggling” – and extremely rare – view of one of Britain’s cutting-edge warships.

HMS Campbeltown has taken her place in the line alongside Allied warships in Combined Task Force 150, enforcing Operation Enduring Freedom on the high seas.

THE words ‘Luftwaffe’ and ‘Royal Navy’ in close proximity invariably evoke memories of Crete in 1941…

THE Arabian Gulf is becoming awash with ships flying the White Ensign with the fifth ship bound for the region in the shape of HMS Cornwall.

ROYAL Marine Commandos kept Taleban insurgents on the back foot as the green berets swept through southern Afghanistan.

AFTER a brief ‘pit stop’ in her home port of Marchwood to offload commandos and kit after exercises in Sierra Leone, new landing support ship RFA Mounts Bay made her first journey inside the Arctic Circle.

IRAQI fishermen cheered, applauded and hugged British sailors who rescued them after a week adrift in the northern Gulf.

A 21ST-Century ‘virtual museum’  celebrating the last 100 years of deeds by the Senior Service has opened its ‘doors’.