HMS Chiddingfold, a Hunt-class minehunter, has rejoined the Fleet fresh from upkeep in Rosyth, where she was kitted out with a new state-of-the-art mine disposal system called Seafox.

HMS Exeter, one of two Royal Navy ships still in commission from the Falklands conflict, arrives in Dundee on Thursday 28 June for a five-day visit.

HMS Ocean, the helicopter carrier on anti-drug operations in the Caribbean, has seized nearly half a tonne of cocaine with a street value of around £29 million.

Three ships from the US, Germany and Spain have spent the last four days in Portsmouth Naval Base as part of a multi-national NATO squadron visit.

THE world’s most advanced warship will put to sea for the first time on July 18, four years after she was laid down.

FRIGATE HMS Sutherland is on her way home having handed over Gulf duties to her sister, eight months after leaving Britain’s shores.

ORDINARILY, you don’t want birds on your flight deck; they tend to play havoc with rotors and engines.

AMPHIBIOUS flagship HMS Albion made an historic visit to St Petersburg – despite port guides telling the bridge team it couldn’t be done.

HMS Southampton is taking the ‘long way round’ as she heads to the Falklands to relieve her sister HMS Edinburgh.

THE training of Iraq’s new navy has stepped up a gear with the arrival of RFA Sir Bedivere as the fledgling fleet’s mother ship.

THE men and women of HMS Seahawk are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the famous air station this month.

FRESH from her £12m refit , aviation training and casualty treatment ship RFA Argus has begun intensive trials and exercises.

YOU wait all year for a Royal Navy warship to visit and then two come all at once.

THE fourth and final new landing support ship has received a glowing bill of health from Whitehall.

ONE year and six days after last seeing Plymouth Hoe, HMS Echo spied Smeaton’s Tower again at the end of a mammoth deployment to the Middle and Far East.

A CLUTCH of Royal Navy vessels will welcome HMS Astute into this world as they head to Barrow-in-Furness for the submarine’s launch.

HMS Tyne paid a return visit to Jersey to help islanders mark the 62nd anniversary of liberation from the Nazi yoke.

NEW patrol ship HMS Clyde has paid her first – and probably last – visit to the city for which she was named.

THE STRAINS – mental and physical – of six weeks of operational sea training are taxing enough.

Stardate 2105.07. HMS Somerset. Off Portland. I won’t forget today in a hurry – it was the moment I’d been looking forward to since taking command.