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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.
The Royal Navy’s airborne surveillance and control helicopters in recent months have helped seize and destroy over five tons of Taliban drugs with a ‘street value’ in excess of £6m.
As an 8,000-tonne hull section of the Royal Navy’s latest aircraft carrier begins a 600-mile (966km) journey around the north coast of Scotland, a team of cyclists has set off to try and ‘beat the block’ to its destination.
Amongst the personnel deployed with the Royal Navy’s Responsive Force Task Group Cougar 11 deployment, whose lead ships arrived home yesterday, were a small group of individuals from the Royal Naval Reserve.
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has passed a landmark in delivering key new buildings to support Royal Navy helicopter squadrons based at Royal Navy Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Cornwall.
Royal Navy Type 23 Duke class frigate HMS Sutherland has been re-tasked to NATO to support Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, the mission to protect the people of Libya and enforce the UN-mandated arms embargo.
The RAF and Royal Navy have been involved in a number of precision attacks to protect Libyan civilians over the last few days as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
Captain Harry Wales helped the British Army polo team to victory in this year’s Rundle Cup, the traditionally hard-fought polo match between the Royal Navy and the Army, on Saturday 9 July 2011.
The awards ceremony for the annual Royal Navy Photographic Competition, The Peregrine Trophy, took place at Trinity House, London, yesterday, Thursday 30 June 2011.
Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo is supporting the anti-piracy effort in the Indian Ocean by updating badly-needed charts of the region and eliminating no-go areas for Allied warships.
Following operations off Libya, the Royal Navy’s Response Force Task Group has now passed through the Suez Canal in order to conduct exercises with the UK’s partners in the Middle East.
Royal Navy personnel have joined 2,000 sailors from 13 nations for the world’s largest submarine rescue exercise, off the south-eastern tip of Spain.