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15:26 GMT - 16 February 2012
Exercise Cold Response
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Fleet Air Arm
A final
The final batch of Merlin aircrew are completing years of arduous training...
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Royal Navy
HMS Grimsby
Royal Navy mine hunter HMS Grimsby will arrive in her affiliated home...
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Royal Navy
HMS Liverpool
A British warship is dwarfed by the looming outline of a Russian...
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Royal Navy
Royal Navy
A Royal Navy patrol ship has issued a record on-the-spot fine to...
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Surface-Fleet
Lancaster ‘ready
Faster, punchier, and more efficient, HMS Lancaster has put to sea again...
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Royal Navy
Severn Detains
A Portsmouth-based Royal Navy patrol ship has caught and detained a fishing...
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Surface-Fleet
Bulwark’s sailors
Sailors from HMS Bulwark tackled the high ropes course at HMS Raleigh...
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Royal Marines
Navy and
A ‘hijacked’ Thames ferry was boarded by heavily-armed Royal Marines during a...
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Naval Service
A couple
The first of 1,200 recruits to train at HMS Raleigh in 2012...
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Royal Marines
Royal Marines
Royal Marines have joined police on the Thames in London for a...
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Royal Navy
New Naval
The Navy’s next-generation helicopter has begun its most extensive trials yet, joining...
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Fleet Air Arm
Wildcat roars
The Navy’s next-generation helicopter has made its debut on the back of...
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Royal Marines
Commandos begin
Britain’s senior front-line Royal Marines commander headed across the Channel to plan...
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Naval Service
Key Olympic
Two of the Navy’s biggest warships have key roles providing security for...
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Surface-Fleet
Rededication completes
As she did when she first joined the Fleet in 1982, HMS...
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Royal-Fleet-Aux
Support ship
A support ship to the Royal Navy ship arrived home today after...
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Christmas Message
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, has sent out a...
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Surface-Fleet
Worldwide hit
Youtube sensations HMS Ocean returned home triumphantly to Devonport today after a...
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Surface-Fleet
Royal Marines
Royal Marines staged a mock invasion of North Devon as HMS Illustrious’...
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HMS Ocean
The world has tuned in to the men and women of the...
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Royal Fleet
A Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship at the heart of a disaster relief...
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Royal Navy
UK’s first
Britain’s first next-generation combat aircraft, the cutting-edge Joint Strike Fighter, has rolled...
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Surface-Fleet
HMS Bangor
Royal Navy warship HMS Bangor returned home to Faslane today following 120...
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Royal Marines
Thousands line
Thousands of well-wishers lined the streets of Exeter as more than 650...
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Royal Navy
Prince Philip
The Duke of Edinburgh was guest of honour at the Admiralty as...
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Surface-Fleet
Defender successfully
HMS Defender – the Navy’s fifth state-of-the-art Type 45 destroyer – has...
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Fleet Air Arm
Archbishop of
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, joined with the men and...
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Surface-Fleet
Liverpool home
HMS Liverpool today received a triumphant welcome home in Portsmouth after more...
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Surface-Fleet
Iron Duke
HMS Iron Duke spent three eventful days in Hull where her affiliated...
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Royal Navy
Armistice Day
Service personnel, civilian staff and foreign nationals under training stood side by...
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Surface-Fleet
HMS Liverpool
HMS Liverpool returns to Portsmouth from her Libya mission on Monday after...
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HMS Portland
Type 23 frigate HMS Portland rushed to the aid of an injured...
A final spot of wizardry from Navy's trainee Merlin crews
The final batch of Merlin aircrew are completing years of arduous training off the Cornish coast before the Fleet Air Arm gets its hands on the next-generation version of the helicopter. Eighteen trainee pilots, observers and aircrewman from 824 Naval Air Squadron at Culdrose are spending five weeks flying on, off and around aviation training ship RFA Argus - the last crews to do so before the Merlin Mk2 joins the Fleet Air Arm later this year.
- Number of ports
600around UK
- UK coastline
10,500miles
- Offshore oil and gas
300platforms
- Contribution to GDP
£10bnby UK-based shipping
- Contribution to tax revenues
£3bnby UK-based shipping
This is where we put into practice all that has been taught previously - it is almost the final hurdleLieutenant Commander Mike Currie
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
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824 Naval Air Squadron operating from RFA Argus
Royal Navy
HMS Grimsby Pays Namesake town first visit in five years
Royal Navy mine hunter HMS Grimsby will arrive in her affiliated home town on Friday (Feb 17) for her first visit in five years... and it’s hoped the people of Lincolnshire will turn out in their droves to welcome her. Civic affiliations are an important part of the Royal Navy’s commitment to raising the awareness of the variety of roles, equipment and people that make up the Senior Service. This visit will allow the ship’s company of HMS Grimsby to cement the already-strong links they have with Grimsby and Cleethorpes.