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THESE are the first pictures of the Royal Navy’s giant new flagship as she is put through her paces in the North Sea. HMS Queen Elizabeth – nicknamed Big Lizzie – towered above warships…

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Written by D-Mitch HMS Blake as a helicopter cruiser Laid down in 1941-42, the three cruisers of the Tiger class were originally to have been sister ships to Superb, an improved variant of the Swiftsure class cruisers (also known as the Minotaur class), a modified version of the Crown Colony class cruisers, but their construction was slowed down. Finally, the ships were launched in 1944-45 and they were left incomplete until their future had been decided. It was not until 1951 that a plan…

A look at the upcoming Type 26 and Type 31 Frigates.

British risk advisory company Prevail Partners has unveiled its proposal for the Royal Navy’s two new littoral strike ships which were announced by the UK defense secretary earlier this month. Prevail say their multi role vessel (MRV) was designed as a mobile logistic and helicopter base, enabling nations to project power and carry out special […]

HMS Ark Royal (R09) en route to the United States, 1978. British Royal Navy aircraft carrier

Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better.

from Sunday Herald, 25 July 2010 Britain’s troubled £4 billion programme to build a fleet of new nuclear-powered submarines has been hit by a safety bungle that could put thousands of people in danger. Emergency plans for responding to an accidental leak of radioactivity from a submarine under construction at Barrow in Cumbria have been condemned as inadequate by the government’s safety watchdog. As a result, BAE Systems, the company that is building the new...

In a move that will horrify traditionalists, Royal Navy sailors have started wearing American-style baseball caps on operations.

A Royal Navy servicewoman keeps an armed vigil during a Suez Canal transit onboard Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset. HMS Somerset is deployed to the Arabian Gulf for 6 months, to participate in Operation TELIC, providing security to Iraqi offshore oil infrastructure vital to the Iraqi economy and the reconstruction effort of the coalition campaign. During her time in the region, Somerset will also participate in a variety of multi-national exercises and support UK strategic interests in the…