The crew of the Royal Naval frigate HMS Argyll was given a rousing hero’s welcome by hundreds of cheering relatives and friends when the ship returned from a successful maritime policing patrol. About 500 banner-waving family members and friends welcomed the ship back home to Plymouth after a deployment including operations in the seas around Africa, the Falklands, the … [Read more...] about HMS Argyll given a hero’s welcome home
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HMS Argyll visits Bermuda on way home to UK
Following an intense period of counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean HMS Argyll has held a four-day visit to Bermuda. On arrival the Type-23 frigate, which is on her way back to the UK following a seven-month deployment in the South Atlantic, held a reception and capability demonstration attended by the Bermudian governor, His Excellency George … [Read more...] about HMS Argyll visits Bermuda on way home to UK
Royal Marines on exercise Albanian Lion
Through the night they work securing the beach and providing a safe drop off point for Royal Marines, their equipment and vehicles. Over the course of four days scores of vehicles and hundreds of Royal Marine Commandos will have passed through their landing point, a narrow strip of beach lit only by dim port and starboard lights against a wall of darkness. This is the role … [Read more...] about Royal Marines on exercise Albanian Lion
Royal Marines begin exercise Albanian Lion
A large-scale exercise which will see nearly 1000 Royal Marines hone their skills alongside their Albanian counterparts is now under way. Exercise Albanian Lion is the first major outing for the Response Force Task Group (RFTG) - a Royal Naval force involving four warships and five support vessels which is exercising in the Mediterranean and Gulf over the next three months … [Read more...] about Royal Marines begin exercise Albanian Lion
HMS Argyll in counter-narcotics operations
Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll has just completed an intense period of counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean before making her way back home to the UK. The Plymouth-based Type-23 frigate worked alongside her US, Canadian and Colombian allies to help deter potential drug traffickers from using the sea to transport their goods. She had to use her full range … [Read more...] about HMS Argyll in counter-narcotics operations
HMS Argyll sails through the Panama Canal
The Plymouth-based Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll has left her South Atlantic patrol and is the way home through the Panama Canal. Sailing two seas in one day – the 50-mile long canal allows ships to sail between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in just ten hours and the crew took the time to improve their fitness by racing the ship through the canal by static rowing … [Read more...] about HMS Argyll sails through the Panama Canal
845 Naval Air Squadron on Exercise Pashtun Commando
Commando fliers spend six weeks training in punishing desert conditions. Nearly two years after their last experience of operating in desert conditions, 845 Naval Air Squadron decamped from their base at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset to Aqaba in southern Jordan for Exercise Pashtun Commando. The squadron – which spent four years in Afghanistan with its sister Commando … [Read more...] about 845 Naval Air Squadron on Exercise Pashtun Commando
Royal Navy sails for Annual Cougar Deployment
Thousands of Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel sailed (Monday 12th August) for an annual deployment to the Mediterranean and Gulf region - Cougar ’13. The long-planned deployment will see elements of the UK’s Response Force Task Group (RFTG) – the naval force formed under the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review – hone its world class maritime … [Read more...] about Royal Navy sails for Annual Cougar Deployment
HMS Talent home to Plymouth
After three months spent deep beneath the ocean the crew of the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Talent have returned home to Plymouth and their waiting families. During its busy deployment HMS Talent engaged in defence diplomacy, undertook a number of trials and exercised with US and French ships and stopped in Gibraltar. Shortly after sailing from HM Naval Base, Devonport, HMS … [Read more...] about HMS Talent home to Plymouth
Prince Harry opens Royal Navy Amphibious Centre of Excellence
Prince Harry ceremonially opened the Royal Navy’s newly built £30m centre of amphibious excellence in Plymouth (Friday 2nd) in front of hundreds of families and friends of Royal Marines. HRH launched Royal Marines Tamar, the centre of operational and training units for small craft crews of landing craft, hovercraft and fast boats at HM Naval Base, Devonport, under a blue sky … [Read more...] about Prince Harry opens Royal Navy Amphibious Centre of Excellence
