ON A glorious late summer Sunday morning 216 days away from home came to an end for frigate HMS Cornwall, which arrived safely back in Devonport after an eventful trip to the Gulf.

SAILORS spent three days clearing up in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean, repairing homes in Belize.

THE passageways of frigate HMS Somerset are open to allcomers tomorrow and Friday as the ship participates in Dartmouth’s annual Royal Regatta.

TWO days after summer leave, the men and women of HMS Northumberland joined the war against terrorism.

THE ‘white rose’ sailors paid the first visit to the city which gives their ship her name in three years.

FRIGATE HMS Richmond has completed her first patrol around Iraq’s oil platforms as she replaces HMS Cornwall in the northern Arabian Gulf.

The Black Duke’s second visit to Australia was also the most high profile and longest stop on her world tour.

NEW patrol ship HMS Clyde today bids farewell to Portsmouth – possibly for good – as she sails south to begin work.

VISITING foreign waters for the first time in more than two years, HMS Chiddingfold headed across the North Sea to Stavanger in Norway as part of her post-refit trials programme.

BRITAIN’S next-generation destroyer has surpassed expectations on her first outing at sea.

THE ‘safety police’ of Portsmouth Harbour are looking for more volunteers – and cash – to ensure the service’s continued success.

THE image is a bit blurry but the lines are unmistakeable.

FISHERY protection ship HMS Mersey took a break from prowling the Irish Sea for trawlers to pool her expertise with fire-fighters.

ILL-FATED submarine HMS M2 will be remembered this autumn with a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of her loss.

HMS Edinburgh has completed a ten-month deployment to the South Atlantic.

CULDROSE air base’s diamond jubilee air day brought record crowds to the Cornish establishment.

AFTER a decade of planning, years of longing, and months of uncertainty and rumour, the Government has committed itself to the cornerstone of Britain’s Armed Forces for the next half century.

THE fourth and final support ships which have helped to revolutionise 21st-Century RN amphibious operations has been handed over by its builders.

After four months away as part of Task Force Orion, minehunters HMS Atherstone and Hurworth have returned to their Portsmouth home on Friday August 3.

Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose returned home to Devonport on July 27 to a crowd of 600 on the jetty.

It has taken 25 years, but the names of the Navy's clearance diving teams have been added to the Liberation monument at Port Stanley.

At RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset, the Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Adrian Johns launched a new Royal Navy education institution.