From aircraft carriers and assault ships to small patrol boats and survey vessels, the Royal Navy can call upon an arsenal of warships and weaponry to meet any challenge thrown up by global crises – be they man-made or acts of God.
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08:32 GMT - 13 May 2013
Atlantic, Caribbean & USA
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HMS Albion
HMS Albion, along with her sister ship HMS Bulwark, is one of the Navy’s two amphibious assault ships with a single aim: to deliver the punch of the Royal Marines ashore by air and by sea. We do that using landing craft from our cavernous loading dock – the ship can flood her stern to allow the boats in and out – and helicopters from our vast flight deck.
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HMS Albion
HMS Albion, along with her sister ship HMS Bulwark, is one of the Navy’s two amphibious assault ships with a single aim: to deliver the punch of the Royal Marines ashore by air and by sea. We do that using landing craft from our cavernous loading dock – the ship can flood her stern to allow the boats in and out – and helicopters from our vast flight deck.
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HMS Iron Duke
HMS Iron Duke, the ship in which Prince William served and winner of the 2011/12 Fleet Efficiency Award is currently undergoing a five-yearly refit involving major maintenance and upgrades to her machinery, weapons and sensors. Having been deployed East of Suez and off Libya during 2011 as well as providing a flight deck for trials of the Navy’s new Wildcat helicopter, she ended a very successful operational period on entering dry dock in Portsmouth in March 2012. She is due to emerge reinvigorated later this year.
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HMS Monmouth
HMS Monmouth, the ‘Black Duke’ – the ship which has more battle honours than any other serving warship. She is currently away from her home port of Plymouth, taking over the Royal Navy’s routine deployment to the Gulf through the winter and into the spring of 2013 as part of the continuous British presence in the region since the early 1980s.
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HMS Richmond
HMS Richmond is among the most tried and tested in the Fleet, having pounded Saddam Hussein’s defences on the Al Faw peninsula in the opening hours of the 2003 Iraq campaign, to providing vital aid in the Caribbean after Hurricane Ivan – the tenth strongest storm in history – steamrollered through a succession of islands in 2004.
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HMS Daring
HMS Daring is the first of the Navy’s six £1bn Type 45 destroyers and in early 2012 she was the first of class to deploy with a seven-month stint in the Gulf protecting shipping and working with regional partners, spending 139 days at sea, visiting 12 different countries, and travelling more than 34,643 nautical miles.
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HMS York
HMS York was Britain’s youngest Type 42 destroyer – and also the fastest (over 34 knots to be precise – just short of 40mph). Launched in 1982 and accepted into service in March 1985, the ship celebrated 25 years in service in 2010. The spring of her birthday year was spent in the Falklands – a busy deployment that saw her travel more than 25,000 nautical miles.
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HMS Brocklesby
HMS Brocklesby is one of eight Hunt-class Mine Countermeasures Vessels (MCMVs) based in Portsmouth. Built by Vosper Thornycroft from glass re-inforced plastic, Brocklesby was launched in 1982 and commissioned 13 months later. The third Ship to bear the name, she won her most recent battle honours clearing sea-lanes in to Umm Qasr in Iraq during Operation Telic in 2003.
Latest Ship News
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HMS Monmouth home to heroes’ welcome from patrol20/05/2013
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.
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Royal Navy puts great into British at Hamburg port festival16/05/2013
Making her first ever foreign visit, the Type 45 destroyer glided down the River Elbe alongside 300 other vessels which annually descend on Hamburg for the celebrations of the port’s opening. Dwarfing tugs, passenger boats and tall ships the Royal Navy’s newest warship HMS Defender brought a steely edge to Hamburg’s annual port festival of Hafengeburtstag.
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Royal Navy takes part in huge multinational minehunting exercise16/05/2013
Representatives from more than 40 nations have arrived in Bahrain to take part in the largest exercise ever staged to deal with the threat of mines in the Gulf region.
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HMS Edinburgh arrives in adopted city for final farewell15/05/2013
As the sun rose on the sleeping city of Edinburgh this morning its namesake warship glided into Leith to say her final goodbye to the city before retiring from the fleet later this month.
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HMS Daring goes global15/05/2013
HMS Daring, one of the Royal Navy’s new-generation Type 45 destroyers, is gearing up for a wide-ranging deployment which takes her to the Far East – and beyond.
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