1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN jointly by the King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth, the Harbour Master ABP Southampton and the Cowes Harbour Master that the Round the Island Race 2025 will start from Cowes ...

In response to the Strategic Defence Review, First Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins has issued the following statement to the Naval Service: "The world has changed. The threat we now face is more ...

The team behind the initiative – which seeks to steer young people away from the criminal fringe of society through military values and combat sports – staged their second session in 18-months at ...

A small drone acted as the ‘flying eyes’ for a Royal Navy helicopter in a first on operations. Crew of a Merlin helicopter turned off their radar – and instead relied on a drone and its controllers to ...

The Royal Navy pounced on a drug runner in the Middle East, seizing more than 1½ tonnes of illegal narcotics worth £30m. After secretly shadowing the suspect through the Arabian Sea for more than 24 ...

Royal Navy warships and helicopters were activated for the second time this month to report on Russian activity in UK waters. HMS Dragon monitored Russian intelligence gathering ship Yuri Ivanov as it ...

The Royal Navy Trophy Fund has received two commissioned paintings during a formal presentation held onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, marking the culmination of a special initiative to commemorate the ...

Reservists in northwest London celebrated the silver jubilee of their unit’s existence by rewarding outstanding personnel. HMS Wildfire, based at Northwood, has been serving the Home Counties since ...

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins will lead the Royal Navy of the future as he takes up the mantle of First Sea Lord, becoming head of the nation’s Senior Service. A formal supersession took place today in the ...

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the King’s Harbour Master Portsmouth that Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) trials will be conducted within the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth over the period 28 May – 5 ...

The first of the Royal Navy’s new general-purpose warships was today revealed to the world. After more than three years’ construction in a cavernous assembly hall in Rosyth, Fife, the 28-metre-tall ...

Crew of one of Britain’s most powerful military machines gathered in the cavernous dry dock housing her to mark the next stage in the £560m regeneration of HMS Victorious. The 16,000-tonne submarine – ...