A former Royal Navy Wren has been recognised for her wartime service at her 101st birthday celebrations in Nottinghamshire.

The Royal Navy is now able to deploy crewless minesweeping equipment to hunt and destroy mines for the first time. New systems – known collectively as SWEEP – have been accepted into service to combat ...

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the King's Harbour Master Portsmouth that speed restrictions and exclusion zones are now enforced off HM Naval Base Portsmouth berths and vessels alongside when diving ...

In response to the Strategic Defence Review, First Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins has issued the following statement to the Naval Service: "The world has changed. The threat we now face is more ...

The Royal Navy pounced on a drug runner in the Middle East, seizing more than 1½ tonnes of illegal narcotics worth £30m.

One of the UK’s most advanced warships has obliterated a supersonic missile in a historic first for the Royal Navy in a test off the coast of Scotland. In a burst of fire and smoke, Type 45 destroyer ...

HMS Prince of Wales is a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, one of the most capable and powerful surface warships ever constructed in the UK.

A UK warship has tracked a Russian submarine in the Channel – as part of a NATO mission to shadow Russian vessels. Ensuring the UK’s waters are secure, and the public protected, the Portsmouth-based ...

The Royal Navy has completed a two-year project looking at the use of jet-powered drones. The navy Banshee drones have now been retired from service, with the Fleet Air Arm team having achieved its ...

The Merlin helicopters from 820 Naval Air Squadron arrived on HMS Prince of Wales today from their home at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose to begin their involvement in the Carrier Strike Group 25 ...

The most powerful deployment of UK airpower at sea this century is now embarked aboard HMS Prince of Wales and her carrier group after two days of intense activity at air bases across southern England ...

Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Spey joined forces with Commonwealth allies to enhance their combined ability to defend Malaysia and Singapore from invasion during a 16-day exercise in the South China Sea.