A pair of minehunters donated to Ukraine by the Royal Navy sailed into Portsmouth today. Cherkasy and Chernihiv travelled past The Round Tower in Old Portsmouth at around midday (February 11). A ...

Royal Navy tugboat and marine services crews, some of whom are based in Portsmouth, are being balloted for strike action amid safety concerns. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News ...

A Plymouth Royal Navy warship has been tracking one of Vladimir Putin’s spy ships operating around UK ... a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel based in Portsmouth. Defence Secretary John Healey ...

Concentrating all the Royal Navy’s ships in one location makes good economic and military sense ahead of new ships entering service later this decade.” On current plans, Portsmouth will base ...

THIS is the moment Sun Man Jerome Starkey joined Royal Navy gunboats as they intercepted a Russian convoy in a dramatic Channel showdown. HMS Iron Duke charged at full speed up to a Russian ...

The beautifully sculptured penguin was presented this year to the Deputy Engineer Officer, 40-year-old Keith ... famous ship, crushed by the ice on his 1914-1915 expedition, the Royal Navy's ...

Our emblematic tree is in short supply and in danger of running out – is the idea of homegrown hardwood sunk forever?

MPs heard a government-to-government sale is being explored by the Royal Navy ... old capabilities to make way for the future, as the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key put it. “Effectively ...

When 100-year-old Sybil Parker looks back on her long and eventful life ... Sybil herself stayed in the Royal Navy until the end of the war and then became a secretary to the Palace of Justice at ...

The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend in 1969. At the time, she was the largest vessel to have been built in Britain.