Around 900 family and friends today cheered HMS Argyll home after her nine-month mission to the Pacific. Just days after rescuing all the crew of a blazing container ship off the French coast, the frigate and her 210 sailors and Royal Marines arrived back in Plymouth. The warship covered the equivalent of one and a half times around the globe as she sailed to Tokyo and … [Read more...]
HMS Ocean arrives home early
HMS Ocean arrived home from deployment tonight (Tuesday) instead of a planned arrival tomorrow (Wednesday). This is due to forecast fog. The Royal Navy Fleet Flagship HMS Ocean return to her base-port of Devonport in Plymouth at about 6.30pm from her deployment. HMS Ocean will be decommissioned next year after an illustrious career. The amphibious warfare commando … [Read more...]
HMS Monmouth returns from nine month deployment
Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth returned to Plymouth today (Friday) to a heroes’ welcome after a highly successful nine-month deployment which included a major drugs bust and saving the life of a ship-wrecked sailor. A banner-waving crowd of about 850 families and friends cheered, waved welcome banners and cried tears of joy to mark the homecoming in Devonport Naval Base. … [Read more...]
HMS Enterprise home after three years away
The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise has made a triumphal return to her baseport of Plymouth today (18 April) after three years on deployment. A crowd of family and friends lined the jetty cheering and waving banners in HM Naval Base Devonport as the ship berthed. Emotional reunions followed when their loved ones were welcomed on board by the crew who served on a … [Read more...]
HMS Enterprise returns home after three years at sea
The Royal Navy's HMS Enterprise returns home tomorrow [Tue 18 Apr 2017] after an epic 35-month deployment sailing across the globe and saving thousands of lives at sea. In almost three years, she has steamed 150,000 nautical miles, visited 20 countries, and navigated four of the seven seas while conducting maritime security operations, protecting Britain's economy and … [Read more...]
HMS Ocean welcomed home after six-month patrol
HMS Ocean, the Royal Navy’s fleet flagship, has returned from a six-month patrol today (Friday) to her baseport in Devonport, Plymouth, to an ecstatic welcome from close to 2,000 family and friends. Captain Rob Pedre, the ship’s captain, paid tribute to his ‘highly professional’ crew and the ‘dedicated’ families who help made the ship’s penultimate deployment successful: … [Read more...]
HMS Scott returned to Plymouth for the first time since June last year
The Royal Navy warship HMS Scott returned to Plymouth for the first time since June last year to a warm welcome from families and friends. HMS Scott the Royal Navy’s only deep-water survey vessel has been deployed worldwide nine months after successfully completing an extensive refit last summer. The ship returned to HM Naval Base, Devonport, with family and friends … [Read more...]
HMS Bulwark returns to Plymouth from Exercise Cougar
Royal Navy amphibious assault ship, HMS Bulwark, has returned to Plymouth from operations in the Mediterranean leading a major Royal Navy deployment. The Plymouth-based ship was leading this year’s exercise Cougar comprising exercises with the French Navy off Corsica and then Exercise Trident Juncture, the largest NATO exercise for a decade involving 30 nations, 60 ships and … [Read more...]
Royal Navy Icebreaker HMS Protector home from Antarctica
The Royal Navy’s specialist ice-breaking survey ship HMS Protector has arrived in Plymouth - her new base-port - for the first time, to a warm welcome from families and friends. A crowd of cheering well-wishers waving banners were on the jetty at HM Naval Base Devonport to welcome the bright red ship after a 19-month deployment in the Antarctic. As the Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship … [Read more...]
HMS Torbay home from patrol
Sailors of the Royal Naval HMS Torbay have returned to a hero’s welcome as the submarine returns to her base-port at Plymouth after a successful six-month patrol. As HMS Torbay entered Plymouth Sound to begin her transit up the River Hamoze to her berth in HM Naval Base Devonport she was followed by a passenger boat crammed with cheering families and friends waving ‘welcome’ … [Read more...]
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