Alfie-Ray Stevens from Ernesettle joined the Royal Navy in June 2024 before starting a 10-week training course at HMS Raleigh. Being from a military family, the former student of All Saints ...

William Blackett (grandad), born in Wallsend in 1926. Joined the Royal Navy through HMS Raleigh in July 1942 as an ordnance artificer apprentice, was commissioned in 1956, and left the Service in ...

where it was flanked by Devonport-based HMS Somerset and HMS Tyne, a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel based in Portsmouth. Defence Secretary John Healey gave details about the activities of the ...

A new electronic warfare system is being rolled out ahead of being fitted to HMS Prince of Wales and HMS ... still needs to be reloaded, with Royal Navy electronic warfare specialists carrying ...

Image: HMS Somerset (bottom) flanking Russian ship Yantar near UK waters. File pic: Royal Navy/PA It is part of what British and American spy chiefs have described as a "reckless campaign of ...

A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine was deployed to warn off a Russian spy ship operating in the English Channel, the government has revealed. The hunter-killer submarine surfaced close to the ...

“For the last two days the Royal Navy has deployed HMS Somerset and HMS Tyne to monitor the vessel every minute through our waters. “I changed the Royal Navy’s rules of engagement so that ...

A Royal Navy submarine surfaced just yards from a Russian spy ship in a dramatic show of force to protect British waters. The nuclear-powered HMS Astute emerged from the depths after the Kremlin ...

RAF maritime patrol aircraft were deployed, as were two Royal Navy warships and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s Proteus to follow it. “Today, I also wanted to confirm to the House that I ...

Indonesia - January 15, 2025 The British Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Spey docked in Jakarta on Wednesday as part of a week-long visit to strengthen military cooperation with Indonesia.