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HMS Monmouth home to heroes’ welcome from patrol
Royal Navy sailors in warship HMS Monmouth received a rapturous welcome from…
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Divers keep Bahrain's port free of mines with help of…
British and Dutch divers are working side-by-side in the warm, salty waters…
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Royal Navy
Royal Navy takes part in huge multinational minehunting exercise
Representatives from more than 40 nations have arrived in Bahrain to take…
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Royal Navy
HMS Daring goes global
HMS Daring, one of the Royal Navy’s new-generation Type 45 destroyers, is…
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Monmouth flies the flag for Armed Forces Day with 50…
The crew of HMS Monmouth have been showing their support for this…
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HMS Dragon keeps her eye on the cube
A Portsmouth based destroyer has been undertaking target practice in the Gulf…
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HMS Dragon replenishes with the US Carrier Strike Group
Only 36 hours after taking over the Gulf patrol duties from HMS…
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Black Duke relinquishes gulf patrol duties to Dragon
Plymouth-based warship HMS Monmouth is on her way home after handing over…
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HMS Monmouth - “We support Navy rugby – pass it…
A Royal Navy Ship’s Company have been showing off their unique rugby…
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Head of British Military calls on Bahrain Battle Staff
The head of Britain’s Armed Forces visited the Royal Navy’s headquarters in…
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Royal Navy and Kuwaiti Navy exercise together in the Gulf
A Royal Navy frigate has conducted a series of manoeuvres with Kuwaiti…
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Royal Navy Physical Development - Bahrain
The UK Maritime Component Command (UKMCC) manages the Royal Navy’s contribution to…
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HMS Monmouth Shows Off Royal Navy Capability
HMS Monmouth has given an impressive demonstration of UK Naval capability to…
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HMS Scott Returning To Plymouth
The Royal Naval survey ship HMS Scott returns to Plymouth tomorrow morning…
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Rear Admiral pays a visit to HMS Monmouth in Bahrain
During a recent visit to Bahrain, the company of HMS Monmouth had…
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Naval Service
HMS Quorn's divers at the sharp end ahead of massive…
Divers from HMS Quorn are preparing for the biggest minehunting exercise of…
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HMS Monmouth conducts maritime Approach and Assist operations
A Royal Navy frigate has been carrying out “Approach and Assist” operations…
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HMS Trenchant passes nine-month milestone on patrol in Indian Ocean
The crew of hunter-killer submarine HMS Trenchant have passed the nine-month barrier…
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HMS Monmouth hosts Middle Eastern Capability Demonstration
HMS Monmouth recently hosted an evening capability demonstration for 200 guests, including…
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Supply and Demand keeps HMS Monmouth on Operations
As HMS Monmouth hits the five-month mark on her Maritime Security patrol…
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Royal Navy warship in Middle East drugs bust
Royal Navy frigate HMS Northumberland has intercepted two high speed drug smuggling…
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Northumberland enjoys 'rare insight' into world's navies in Pakistani exercise
HMS Northumberland flew the flag for Britain when she was Britain's participant…
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Mum’s the word for HMS Monmouth on Mothers’ Day
Far from home this Mothers’ Day, the sailors onboard HMS Monmouth still…
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HMS Monmouth keeps Functionally Fit during 7 month Deployment
One of the Royal Navy’s aims is to train its people in…
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HMS Monmouth hosts the Chief of Joint Operations
During a port visit to Bahrain, HMS Monmouth has hosted the Chief…
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Fleet Air Arm
Unique Anglo-French link-up hailed a success as Royal Navy Lynx…
A unique link-up between the Royal and French Navies – which saw…
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HMS Monmouth fire-exercise on patrol
Plymouth based warship HMS Monmouth conducted a major engine-space fire exercise to…
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HMS Monmouth takes a pit-stop in the Gulf and welcomes…
HMS Monmouth has returned to routine maritime security patrols of the Gulf…
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UK-US Mine Counter-measures Exercise
Six Royal Navy and two American ships, plus helicopters and mini-robot submarines…
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Welsh Sailors Celebrate National Day In The Gulf
The Royal Navy’s Welsh-affiliated warship HMS Monmouth is celebrating St David’s Day…
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Royal Navy Warships Fly Flag for UK at Gulf Exhibition
The Royal Navy’s second most senior admiral visited UK ships deployed to…
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HMS Enterprise Unveils Natural Red Sea Wonder
A Royal Navy survey ship has produced a series of stunning images…
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HMS Northumberland Busy In Bahrain
While halfway through her eight-month deployment to the Middle East HMS Northumberland…
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Royal Navy sharing expertise with US Navy
British mine warfare experts are sharing their expertise with their American colleagues…
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Fleet Air Arm
Blog from 815 Squadron's Lynx Flight on the French Frigate…
Read the latest 'blog' from 815 Squadron's Lynx Flight embarked on the…
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Royal Navy keeps love alive for Valentine's Day
Despite being thousands of miles from home, when it comes to Valentines…
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Britain's Gulf minehunting force form up for new commander
The crews of the Royal Navy’s four Gulf minehunters filed off their…
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HMS Monmouth Hosts NATO Delegates
Politicians from across NATO visited Royal Navy warships in the Gulf for…
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Rare Red Sea link-up for survey ships Enterprise and Scott
Two of the five ships in the Royal Navy’s Hydrographic Squadron –…
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He would run 500 miles, and he would run 500…
Petty Officer(CIS) James ‘Dutchy’ Van-Der-Linden has hit the half way mark on…
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HMS Monmouth visits USS John C Stennis
While the Royal Navy awaits delivery of the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft…
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Fleet Air Arm
Junglies go back to their roots
20 members of 845 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) are heading to Borneo…
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Lynx is the eyes, ears and claws of HMS Monmouth
A Royal Naval Lynx helicopter from RNAS Yeovilton is proving itself as…
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Drug-Busting HMS Westminster Returns From Successful Middle East Mission
Portsmouth-based warship HMS Westminster returns home on Monday (August 13) from a…
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Royal Navy Ships Join Forces In The Gulf
Personnel on board Portsmouth-based HMS Atherstone have put aside their minehunting skills…
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Royal-Fleet-Aux
Different ship, different year as RFA Fort Victoria takes over…
The largest ship in the Naval Service has taken on the vital…
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Children dance with delight after HMS Northumberland’s help in Tanzania
Sailors from HMS Northumberland spent a day helping to revamp a community…
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Carols, Turkey, Santa and…Sunshine?
Carols, Turkey, Santa and Sunshine: welcome to Christmas on board HMS Monmouth,…
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Survey ship turns winter wonderland as HMS Scott celebrates the…
HMS Scott’s crew pulled out all the stops to ensure the festive…
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Atherstone begins 2013 with a bang in the Gulf
Minehunter HMS Atherstone celebrated 2013’s arrival with bangs and fireworks aplenty in…
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Six of the best from Navy minehunters as they mark…
Royal Navy minehunters are marking six years of keeping the waters of…
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Scott sails just four nights before Christmas
Just four nights before Christmas, the Royal Navy’s largest survey ship will…
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Royal Navy’s global Christmas presence thanks to one in seven…
More than 4,800 men and women – one in every seven personnel…
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No white Christmas for the Black Duke as Monmouth patrols…
HMS Monmouth is fully immersed in the Christmas spirit as she patrols…
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Royal Navy hands over command of counter-piracy task force after…
For the sixth time the Royal Navy has handed over the reins…
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Fleet Air Arm
Read the blog from 815 Lynx Squadron on French Frigate…
Find out more about what life is like for flight 217 of…
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HMS Diamond Returning From Her Maiden Deployment
Royal Navy warship HMS Diamond returns home to Portsmouth on Friday (December…
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Monmouth safeguards supertanker in major exercise
HMS Monmouth led Britain’s input to a five-day exercise in the Middle…
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Submarine Service
Gulf Rendezvous for 2 Welsh Ships
Two Welsh-affiliated Royal Naval units have met up far from the Valleys…
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Northumberland Sailors Skillsets Stay Fresh In The Gulf
Sailors on board a Royal Navy warship for the festive season are…
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Diamond jubilation as destroyer heads home after handover with Monmouth
Britain’s newest operational warship HMS Diamond traded places with HMS Monmouth as…
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Wave Ruler bows out of Gulf support mission after being…
Tanker RFA Wave Ruler is about to turn for home after six…
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Monmouth’s sailors beat the ship through Suez in rowing challenge
The ship’s company of HMS Monmouth rose to the traditional challenge of…
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Survey ship Enterprise’s new hi-tech boat finds two undiscovered wrecks…
HMS Enterprise used her new hi-tech survey launch to produce stunning 3D…
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Northumberland trades places with Sutherland in fight against piracy
There’s a change of lands in the Indian Ocean as HMS Sutherland…
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New team takes charge of Royal Navy's Gulf-based minehunter force
Portsmouth mine-warfare experts have taken over from their Faslane counterparts in charge…
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HMS Diamond due to visit Muscat
Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond is on course to make…
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All seeing eyes of the Fleet link up in the…
The two ‘eyes of the Fleet’ – a Type 45 destroyer and…
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We like Ike again - Diamond works with US super-carrier
HMS Diamond joined forces with one of the world's most potent warships…
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Sutherland’s sailors brighten the lives of African orphans
Sailors from HMS Sutherland gave up their free time during a visit…
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Submariners help marine life experts
Submariners from HMS Trenchant helped environmentalists research giant turtles on an Indian…
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Pirate-busters prepare for possible surge in activity as monsoon season…
The Navy’s counter-piracy experts have reinforced their warning to seafarers to beware…
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Royal Navy Helicopter Deploys On French Warship
Counter-piracy operations in the Gulf are to be bolstered with the deployment…
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The Black Duke deploys for 7 month security operations
The Type 23 frigate HMS Monmouth sailed from Devonport Naval Base this…
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Action-packed demonstration from Diamond as she shares her board and…
HMS Diamond demonstrated the Royal Navy’s expertise in board and search when…
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Royal Navy Warship HMS Northumberland Sails On Patrol
The Plymouth-based Royal Naval frigate HMS Northumberland has sailed on an eight-month…
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HMS Diamond fends off strike from Ike
New destroyer HMS Diamond tested her mettle against two of the most…
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Sutherland shows her flexibility in the Indian Ocean
HMS Sutherland met up with the giant American support ship USNS Supply…
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Massive minehunting exercise to protect ‘vital sea lanes’ in the…
Four British ships and more than 400 sailors and Royal Marines have…
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Royal Navy
Royal Navy Officer Awarded MBE For 14 Month Gulf Deployment
A Marlow-born Royal Navy officer who deployed on two back-to-back operations, spending…
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Royal Marines Reserves
Royal Marine Awarded QCVS For Counter Piracy Operations
A Birstall-born Royal Marine whose ship chased down a pirate mothership in…
HMS Monmouth home to heroes’ welcome from patrol
Royal Navy sailors in warship HMS Monmouth received a rapturous welcome from families and friends on Friday (17th May) after their return to the South West from a successful seven-month deployment to the Gulf. Hundreds of cheering and banner-waving people greeted the frigate back to its homeport in HM Naval Base, Devonport, ready for a happy reunion on the jetty. Read more
- Number of ships
10plus
- UKMCC - part of maritime force of
25 nations
- RN and RFA ships on patrol since
Oct 1980
The deployment was especially good for me as it provided training for my principal warfare officers’ development, but I was looking forward to seeing my young family.Lieutenant Will Hairsine
Royal Navy
Divers keep Bahrain's port free of mines with help of robot submarines
British and Dutch divers are working side-by-side in the warm, salty waters of Bahrain port as part of a major Gulf exercise dealing with the threat of mines. The men of Fleet Diving Unit 3 are the Royal Navy's specialist shallow water divers, experts in keeping ports and harbours free of mines. Read more