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Weekend Proved Busy for Royal Navy Rescue Operations
22/05/2012 15:17:00
As well as providing more than 600 personnel to parade at Windsor and welcoming the Olympic flame at RNAS Culdrose, it has been a busy few days for the Royal Navy. Fishery Protection vessels HMS Mersey and Tyne were both called out over the weekend to deal with separate emergencies...
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£350M Contracts for Design of Future Nuclear Deterrent Submarines
22/05/2012 11:44:00
The MoD has awarded contracts worth £350 million to UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines, sustaining hundreds of British jobs. The first Successor submarine is due to be delivered in 2028, replacing the Vanguard Class submarines which currently carry the UK’s nuclear deterrent - Trident.
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New national Falklands memorial unveiled
22/05/2012 10:35:00
A new national Falklands memorial was unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire yesterday in the presence of hundreds of serving Armed Forces personnel and veterans.
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Navy practises key role in Thames Diamond Jubilee pageant
21/05/2012 14:17:00
Royal Navy sailors have fine-tuned their skills before they protect the Queen’s Royal Barge at the Diamond Jubilee. Sailors and Royal Marines took to a plethora of small boats and raiding craft to flank a pleasure cruiser which was standing in for the boat which the Queen will use for the...
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Queen thanks the Forces for their ‘selfless service’ at Windsor parade
19/05/2012 10:20:00
Some 2,500 personnel from the three Forces, led by the Royal Navy, paraded and mustered for the Queen at the first of this summer’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. They marched around the historic Berkshire town before forming up in the grounds of Windsor Castle for a drumhead service which concluded with an...
