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...]
HMS Argyll given a festive welcome home
Sailors from the Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll returned home to Plymouth Naval Base to a cheering crowd of families and friends after a successful six-month deployment to the Caribbean and North Atlantic seizing illegal drugs and giving out disaster relief. The celebratory atmosphere was heightened by a surprise marriage proposal on the jetty by a sailor to his girlfriend of … [Read more...]
HMS Bulwark returns home to a rapturous welcome
The Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy, HMS Bulwark, returned to her base port of Plymouth from its amphibious and diplomacy deployment to a rapturous welcome. After four months deployed to the Mediterranean and Arabian Gulf on the amphibious exercise Cougar 14, 750 family and friends of the gathered to greet their loved ones in Devonport Naval Base. The waiting families waved … [Read more...]
HMS Northumberland returns to a rapturous greeting
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Northumberland returned to a rapturous greeting at its base-port of Plymouth today (Friday) after a successful patrol policing international shipping lanes in the Middle East. More than 500 cheering friends and family members lined the jetty to welcome HMS Northumberland back to Devonport Naval Base marking the end of a successful seven-month patrol … [Read more...]
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