Tag: Royal Navy

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Falklands War frigate to be turned into a museum

  

  The Royal Navy's HMS Ambuscade is to be preserved as a shipbuilding museum in Glasgow following her decommissioning by the Pakistan Navy, it was announced this week.

• Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 07:58 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Forth on maintenance; replaced by HMS Medway

  

  The British Forces South Atlantic Command this week welcomed the arrival of HMS Medway at Mare Harbor. HMS Medway is a Batch 2 River class offshore patrol vessel, currently commissioned and since 2019 assigned long-term as Royal Navy guard ship in the Caribbean.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  HMS Protector's football fixture included playing in the Antarctic Circle

  

  Sailors from the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship continued their tour of impressive football pitches (starting with Grytviken in South Georgia), when they kicked off inside the Antarctic Circle.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 09:41 UTC

  Royal Navy incorporates state of the art mine hunting operations vessel

  

  A specialist ship bought to support Royal Navy mine-hunting operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has arrived in Plymouth. When deployed, the platform will support the safeguarding of UK waters from the threat of mines at sea, operating a range of uncrewed systems that will help keep personnel at a safe distance.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2023 - 09:30 UTC

  First steel cut on second Type 31 Frigate, HMS Active

  

  Construction is underway on the second Type 31 frigate being built for the Royal Navy. The first steel has been cut on HMS Active at the Babcock shipyard in Fife, by Defense Minister Alex Chalk.

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  HMS Protector play football at the most southerly and rugged pitch: South Georgia

  

  Sailors from the Royal Navy went head to head with British Antarctic Survey staff during a game of football on the most southerly – and arguably the worst – pitch in the world. The playing field, at Grytviken, the largest settlement of South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic, is billed as the most southerly in the world, some 2,476 miles from the South Pole, to be precise.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  HMS Protector scans active underwater volcanoes on Antarctic edge for tsunami research

  

  Royal Navy personnel are helping scientists warn of potentially catastrophic tsunamis by researching huge underwater volcanoes on the edge of Antarctica. Navy icebreaker HMS Protector has used her state-of-the-art sensors to scan peaks in the South Sandwich Islands – one of the world’s most remote territories.

• Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Falklands 40th anniversary: RAF's Nimrod patrolling the South Atlantic in support of the Task Force

  

  The Royal Air Force played a significant role in helping to secure Britain's recapture of the Falkland Islands in 1982 with its aircraft supporting UK forces during many operations. On the fortieth anniversary of the conflict, Forces.net reveals some of the details.

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  HMS Protector digs out snow covered Port Lockroy scientific base managed by four women

  

  Ice Patrol HMS Protector's sailors and Royal Marines spent two days digging out the Port Lockroy scientific base in Antarctica which is home to a museum, gift shop and the world's most remote post office.

• Friday, December 2nd 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Royal Navy will have “Cetus”, a crewless submarine in two years

  

  The Royal Navy has ordered its first crewless submarine to shape the future of underwater warfare. In two years' time, Cetus – named after a mythological sea monster – will move through the oceans, monitoring hostile activity, listening out for ships or submarines which may pose a threat to the fleet, or to key national infrastructures such as deep-sea cables and pipelines.