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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Atlantic, Caribbean & USA
15:33 GMT - 18 June 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 is in the final phases of readying her propulsion machinery, weapons systems and navigational safety equipment, ready to return to sea for the first time since entering refit in early 2012.
She has received extensive upgrades to her weapons systems and is the first ship with the new ‘Artisan’ 3D Radar. With this cutting edge technology she will be able to conduct operations around the globe.
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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 Clyde leaves a permanent mark on the Falklands13/06/2013
The name Clyde is writ large in the Falklands as the patrol ship wrote her name in giant boulders overlooking the capital Stanley. Islanders allow Royal Navy vessels with strong associations with the Falklands to lay out their names on the Camber, opposite the heart of the town.
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Clyde stamps her mark on stunning South Georgia11/06/2013
Patrol ship HMS Clyde features in a stunning series of new stamps which celebrate the natural beauty of one of Britain’s most isolated territories. The ship was photographed at King Edward Point by astrophotographer Samantha Crimmins, who spent six months capturing ‘star trails’ in the night sky over the wildlife haven of South Georgia.
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HMS Illustrious takes part in operational sea training11/06/2013
Portsmouth helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious is being put through her paces as she prepares for her autumn deployment on Exercise Cougar 13.
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HMS Lancaster Visits Bermuda10/06/2013
Portsmouth based Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster has spent the weekend in Bermuda – her first stop on a six month deployment to the North Atlantic and Caribbean.
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Dragon safeguards giant gas carrier in Gulf exercise10/06/2013
HMS Dragon helped shepherd a gigantic gas tanker through one of the world’s most important ‘choke points’ during an exercise to hone protecting sea trade. The Type 45 destroyer joined forces with other Royal Navy and US Navy vessels, escorting the 130,000-tonne tanker through the narrows between the Gulf and Arabian Sea, source of much of Britain’s natural gas supply.
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