HMS Ark Royal has taken over the duties as Britain’s flagship after successfully leading huge NATO war games in the Baltic.

A WEEK is a long time in politics.

IF YOU are wondering why you’ve not read about the exploits of Her Majesty’s Ship Cumberland these past few months it’s because she’s in the middle of a refit.

THE SILENT Service will get at least one more Astute-class submarine with an order placed for HMS Audacious.

BACK in the early 1970s the world was in grave danger from a race of reptiles which lurked at the bottom of the Solent.

THE idea of clambering into a metal box with fires raging and smoke billowing is something most people will baulk at.

THE GODS were good to the men and women of Task Force Orion as they began their four months in the Mediterranean.

TWELVE bales of cocaine with a street value of some £28 million have been seized by helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, currently on anti-drug patrol in the Caribbean.

VENERABLE destroyer HMS Southampton is in the early stages of a lengthy South Atlantic deployment where she’ll take over from her sister.

VETERAN round-the-world yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston received a hero’s welcome from the Royal Navy at the end of his global challenge.

POSSESSING the longest ship name in the Royal Navy is not always an advantage.

AFTER shivering in the Arctic, the clearance divers of Fleet Diving Unit 3 roasted in the Gulf as they joined experts from around the world blowing up mines.

AFTER charting more than 6,000 square miles of Antarctic seas, ice ship HMS Endurance has finally bade farewell to the frozen continent and begun the long journey home.

IF THE names Trevor McDoughnut, Spit the Dog and the Phantom Flan Flinger spark memories, then read on.

MORE than 3,000 sailors and Royal Marines are mustering in the Skagerrak, Kattegat and Baltic for one of the largest international war games staged this century.

AFTER years of waiting, in little over four weeks the Navy’s first hunter-killer submarine in a generation will roll out of her shed for her launch.

Four complete ship’s companies are trading places as the Fleet’s ‘Sea Swap’ initiative to keep vessels in theatre longer reaches Bahrain and the Aintree minehunting task force.

THE idea of firing a missile at a living, breathing warship is something which will probably cause a few instances of brown trousers.

THE official report into the loss of a Naval Lynx over Basra 12 months ago says there was nothing its crew could have done to prevent the crash.

MEN “of the very highest calibre” received the warmest welcome from family and friends in Arbroath as 45 Commando returned from six months in Afghanistan.

THE Navy’s Lynx helicopter display team is ready for a summer of wowing the crowds as it gears up for the show season.