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Duke of Sussex visits sailors and marines in the Arctic Circle during visit to Commando Helicopter Force

14th February 2019

Duke of Sussex visits sailors and marines in the Arctic Circle

The Duke of Sussex spent part of Valentine’s Day visiting Naval Service personnel hundreds of miles inside the Arctic Circle. In his first overseas visit in his role as Captain General of the Royal Marines, His Royal Highness was involved in celebrations marking 50 years of UK helicopter exercises in the extreme cold. The Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) – the wings of the … [Read more...]

Royal Marines begin training for Arctic defence

7th February 2019

Royal Marines begin training for Arctic defence

Royal Marines have arrived in the high north for their first test on the UK’s new mission to defend the Arctic. The elite commandos are training hundreds of miles inside the Arctic Circle for the next two months, honing their survival and combat skills in temperatures as low as -30°C alongside NATO allies. The Royal Marines – the Naval Service’s amphibious light infantry … [Read more...]

Real-life Iron Man returns to Royal Marines training base to beat assault course using jet suit

22nd January 2019

Richard Browning

Iron Man faced up to the Royal Marines as a former colleague turned jet suit inventor demonstrated his kit for commandos. Ex-Royal Marines Reservist Richard Browning – nicknamed the ‘real-life Iron Man’ – flew a 1000bhp jet suit around the Royal Marines’ infamous bottom field assault course at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon. Scores of fellow commandos … [Read more...]

Royal Marines train England’s Young Lionesses for World Cup

6th July 2018

The England Under 20s Women’s Football squad train with the Royal Marines

The England Under 20s Women’s Football squad spent 48 hours with the Royal Marines – hoping to benefit from the same grit and determination which steeled Gareth Southgate’s World Cup squad. The Young Lionesses are just a month away from appearing in the U20 World Cup finals in France. Thirty-one players tackled the commandos’ fearsome endurance course, spent a night in … [Read more...]

Anglo-French naval force storms Biscay coast in major workout

6th June 2018

Anglo-French naval force

The full panoply of Anglo-French amphibious striking power is being unleashed against France’s Atlantic coast as the two nations prepare to form a combined task group. More than 2,000 military personnel from both sides of the Channel – including destroyer HMS Dragon, amphibious ship RFA Lyme Bay, minehunter HMS Chiddingfold, Royal Marines from 45 Commando, raiding craft from … [Read more...]

Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant breaks through North Pole ice

20th April 2018

HMS Trenchant

Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant has broken through the ice of the North Pole with two US submarines to bring Ice Exercise 18 to an end. A few weeks after punching through the ice off Alaska, the hunter-killer submarine emerged at the top of the world some 2,750 miles from – and 37 degrees Celsius colder than – her home base of Plymouth. Trenchant joined the USS … [Read more...]

Royal Marine Colonel Simon Chapman ten marathons in ten days

18th April 2018

Royal Marine Simon Chapman

A senior Royal Marine is running ten marathons in ten days this week – culminating in the London Marathon. Colonel Simon Chapman, Captain of the Base, at Devonport Naval Base, Plymouth, is on his fourth marathon distance leg today – running from Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton. He is raising funds for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity and The Brain Tumour Charity … [Read more...]

HMS Ocean leads Greek naval exercise

30th November 2017

HMS Ocean

  The Royal Navy’s helicopter carrier HMS Ocean has led a force of 20 ships and over 300 British, Greek and US Marines  to ‘storm’ Crete for the Greek Navy’s main autumn war exercises. The Greeks host Exercise Niriis to test an international naval force and its ability to respond to a major crisis in the region – similar to the Turkish exercise HMS Ocean and the … [Read more...]

HMS Albion training for global duties

18th November 2017

HMS Albion Royal Marines amphibious vehicles

The crew of Britain’s future flagship HMS Albion are half-way through all-action autumn training to prepare them for duties around the globe. Three weeks into her operational sea training off the coasts of Devon and Cornwall,  HMS Albion has already sent Royal Marines ashore to ‘storm’ West Country beaches, patched up a mock community affected by natural disaster, and … [Read more...]

HMS Albion family day

28th July 2017

HMS Albion family day

  The families of sailors had the rare treat of seeing how their loved ones live and work on board the amphibious warship HMS Albion. A family day was enjoyed by hundreds of partners and children (Thursday) in Devonport Naval Base, Plymouth, when they were able to see behind the scenes of one of the Navy’s most versatile warship as it prepares for operations round … [Read more...]

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