After lots of time away last year (214 days) -- planned for 7 week deployment exercise with other nations Diverted to Libya and further operations Back 9 Dec after 7½ months away - 225 days with 176 at sea 400 people onboard (at peak during the amphibious exercises just under 900 onboard but appr...
Passing out day at HMS Raleigh for "Cornwell 21" on the 18th May 2012.
London tourist attraction HMS Belfast reopened to the public today after undergoing a six-month facelift.
HMS Ocean, the Navy's helicopter carrier, squeezes through the Thames Barrier and up the river as part of an Olympic security drill. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com
With a flash of orange and an ear-splitting bang HMS Diamond has proved her fighting mettle by testing her missile system off the Outer Hebrides. The third of the Royal Navy's cutting edge Type-45 destroyers blasted her missile out of the silo at three times the speed of sound, obliterating the j...
The latest of the Royal Navy's powerful new Type 45 destroyers has been formally welcomed into the fleet at a ceremony in Portsmouth. HMS Dragon is the fourth of six Type 45 destroyers being built for the Navy. Hundreds of guests including families of the 190 crew of HMS Dragon attended the colou...
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The Royal Navy is to send one of its most powerful warships to the Falkland Islands as tensions rise with Argentina over the disputed territory. HMS Dauntless will deploy to the South Atlantic in late March, almost 30 years to the day that a naval task force left Portsmouth to reclaim the Falklan...
Admiral Lord West, the former First Sea Lord and Falklands veteran, believes HMS Dauntless, the Type 45 Destroyer due to set sail to the South Atlantic, is essential to ward off any invasion which UK forces could no longer reverse.
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HMS Barham Explodes and Sinks, 1941 [Full Resolution]. Dramatic Newsreel footage captured the sinking of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship. A salvo of torpedoes from a German submarine struck from close range on HMS Barham on November 25, 1941 in the Mediterranean. Within four minutes, the battleshi...
Richard Hammond's: Engineering Connections - (S02E03) HMS Illustrious The contents in this video belong to the BBC and I am only posting this up for entertainment purposes. I do not claim any rights on the video and am not making profit off it. Enjoy :)
Sailors aboard helicopter carrier HMS Ocean arrive in Plymouth for Christmas after a seven and a half month tour, and explain the story behind their viral cover of "All I Want For Christmas Is You".
Mariah Carey is the latest fan of a new Armed Forces viral video -- this time it's HMS Ocean spreading some Christmas cheer as she heads home from deployment. Shot entirely on board to the song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" it's already getting thousands of hits on the internet. Forces News c...
HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Argentinian Exocet missile in the Falklands war 1982.