Tag: Royal Navy

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Type 26 frigate HMS Glasgow will “test” the Clyde river for the first time

  

  HMS Glasgow is set to enter the water for the first time as the construction of the Royal Navy's new Type 26 frigates hits a new milestone. Last week she was moved on to the Clyde for the first time.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Five more Type 26 frigates for the Royal Navy: HMS Glasgow to be delivered in mid 2020s

  

  Five more Type 26 frigates will be built for the Royal Navy, the Prime Minister has announced. Defense manufacturer BAE Systems has been awarded a £4.2 billion contract to build the five warships, on top of the three already under construction.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:17 UTC

  Royal Yacht Britannia to be replaced by an ocean surveillance ship

  

  A £250m scheme to create a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia has been scrapped – with the Defense Secretary telling MPs the procurement of a new Royal Navy vessel is being prioritized instead.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Royal Navy's Type 26s delayed by a year at an extra cost of £233m

  

  UK Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace told MPs in a statement that Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for the Type 26s – dubbed the workhorses of the warship fleet – will now be reached in October 2028 instead of the planned October 2027, and with a cost growth of £233million.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Princess Anne thanks Royal Navy personnel involved in the Queen's funeral

  

  The Princess Royal visited Portsmouth Naval Base on Thursday to offer her personal thanks to sailors involved in Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral. Princess Anne spoke to the men and women about their role hauling the State Ceremonial Gun Carriage bearing the Queen’s coffin and lining the streets of London and Windsor.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2022 - 08:43 UTC

  Royal Navy honors Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III, with traditional gun salutes

  

  Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines around the world have commemorated the death of Her Majesty The Queen – and marked the announcement of His Majesty King Charles III. Across the fleet, on warships, and at naval bases, two very different ceremonial gun salutes echoed across the waves, across the Atlantic, the English Channel, and beyond.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 14:04 UTC

  State of the art Astute-class sub HMS Anson joins the Royal Navy

  

  The world's most advanced hunter-killer submarine, HMS Anson, £1.3bn of both naval stealth and striking power – able to gather vital intelligence, protect other Royal Navy vessels from threats above and below the waves and destroy enemy military infrastructure with pinpoint accuracy, was welcomed into the Royal Navy fleet at a ceremony in Barrow.

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  HMS Scott, in four weeks, has record scanned an Atlantic Ocean area similar to that of Portugal

  

  The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Scott is on course to smash her record scanning the oceans after just the first four weeks of an epic 15-month deployment.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 16:51 UTC

  Royal Navy incorporates experimental ship to test state-of-the-art technology

  

  An experimental warship has been unveiled by the Royal Navy to be used to test state-of-the-art technology, including autonomous systems. The unique new test-bed ship – a 42m, 270-ton vessel named after former Royal Navy sailor and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Blackett – arrived in Portsmouth this week.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  The First Sea Lord warns: “We are focusing solely on the Russian bear risks missing the tiger in the room”

  

  In a wide-ranging 25-minute keynote address to the Council on Geostrategy at The Naval and Military Club in London, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key, outlined the lessons of events in eastern Europe and their impact on the Navy and the nation it serves, emphasizing the ever-growing importance of maritime power as means to promote peace, security, and prosperity.