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HMS Bulwark has assumed the role of the nation’s flagship after completing nine months of intensive training and exercises.
She takes over the proud duty from her sister HMS Albion which sailed into Plymouth at the weekend to begin three years alongside in extended readiness.
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SAILORS on a Devonport-based Royal Navy warship thanked their families for supporting them ahead of a deployment with an action-packed day at sea.
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A new £108m simulated training system has been unveiled at the Royal Navy's base in Fareham, Hampshire.
The Maritime Composite Training System (MCTS) is made up of banks of LCD screens which replicate equipment used at sea.
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HMS Sutherland has spent the past four days in London on a profile-raising visit, showing off what the RN can do to the capital’s movers and shakers.
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THE Royal Navy has unveiled a new state-of-the-art warfare training centre at HMS Collingwood.
The £108m computer suite, which will prepare the next generation of sailors for war, was officially opened by former First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jock Slater at the Fareham base yesterday.
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The final bill for Britain’s involvement in Libya is starting to become clear.
It’s emerged that the British forces have fired 1,470 precision-guided munitions so far on Operation Ellamy.
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COMPUTER game simulators created by University of Portsmouth students will be used to train sailors.
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HMS Montrose has sailed from Devonport to begin a 6½-month deployment in the South Atlantic protecting Britain’s interests.
The frigates left her home port in driving rain — but there was still a hearty turn-out from families to wish her well.
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The full gamut of the Royal Navy’s abilities are on show in the Solent this week during a series of high-profile action-packed demonstrations.
Around 1,000 sailors and Royal Marines from across the Naval Service are taking part in the Maritime Combat Power Visit, showing what the Royal Navy does for MPs, senior officers, and personnel from across the military attending the senior staff course at the Forces’ college in Shrivenham.
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A Dutch historian is hoping to trace the families of men involved in one of the Navy’s worst disasters of World War 1 — as his countrymen look to safeguard their graves.
More than 1,450 sailors were killed in just 90 minutes when the cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy were torpedoed in September 1914 off the Dutch coast by a German submarine.
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THIS is what the future backbone of the Royal Navy is set to look like.
The News can reveal Ministry of Defence officials are keenly looking at this image as the final design of the new Type 26 frigate.
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The UK was not protected by any warships during October, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.
The Royal Navy's cutbacks and presence in Libya meant UK waters were without the minimum coverage of a frigate or destroyer as Fleet Ready Escort (FRE).
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HMS Westminster was sent to the warzone in Libya armed with as few as four missiles, The News can reveal.
Concerned Royal Navy officers have revealed the Portsmouth-based frigate was ‘dangerously under-defended’ when she was called to patrol close to the Libyan port city of Benghazi in March.
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Women are to serve in submarines for the first time in the 110-year history of the Silent Service.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond today announced that the first female submariners would begin training next year — and serve on the front line from 2013.
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It was one of the most controversial events of the Falklands War.
The sinking of the Argentine warship the General Belgrano by a Royal Navy submarine with the loss of 323 lives led to accusations of unnecessary force by Britain and became a cause celebre for anti-war campaigners.