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Families and friends of sailors serving on board HMS St Albans and HMS Edinburgh gathered at Portsmouth Naval Base on Friday, 2 December, to greet their loved ones returning from overseas deployments.

The Royal Navy’s new ice patrol ship, HMS Protector, left Portsmouth yesterday for a seven-month deployment surveying and patrolling the frozen continent of Antarctica.

HMS Daring will sail from Portsmouth in the New Year, after more than four years of trials, tests and training which have just concluded with eight demanding weeks off Plymouth.

Royal Navy warship HMS Liverpool returned home to Portsmouth today following more than seven months working as part of NATO operations off the coast of Libya.

HMS York left Portsmouth yesterday to return to Libya and relieve HMS Liverpool in support of NATO’s ongoing Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.

Work is underway to construct a new ammunitioning jetty in Portsmouth Harbour to service the Royal Navy’s surface ships, including the new Type 45 destroyers, into the 21st century.

One of the Royal Navy’s newest ships, the Type 45 destroyer Dragon, has sailed into her new home of Portsmouth Naval Base today.

A team of musicians from the Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth are in Afghanistan, where they have been touring the British area of operations and entertaining the troops of 3 Commando Brigade.

The Royal Navy minehunter HMS Chiddingfold returned to her home base in Portsmouth from the Gulf yesterday where she has spent three years on security patrols.

Military medic Tanya Wilson has swapped the wards of the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth for the front line in Afghanistan where, for the past five months, she has been accompanying Royal Marines on patrol.