Devonport's field gun competition team put on an impressive display of their skills to delight a crowd of supporters in the Naval Base. The team gave their all in a full-bloodied physical effort for the public run rehearsal prior to the tri-service Brickwoods Field Gun Competition this Saturday (June 6) at the shore base HMS Collingwood, at Gosport, Fareham, … [Read more...] about Royal Navy Field Gun Trains for Tri-Service Competition
Navy News
Royal Navy Submariners home from policing the seas
Two hundred families and friends gave a warm welcome today to submariners from HMS Torbay as she returned to the UK from helping disrupt piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Crowds cheered the Trafalgar-class submarine as she passed Devil's Point in Plymouth Sound with sailors lining the casing and then entered her base port of HM Naval Base Devonport, Plymouth. The … [Read more...] about Royal Navy Submariners home from policing the seas
HMS Argyll returns to Devonport
HMS Argyll has returned to her home port of Plymouth after 2 months overseas in the Mediterranean in the Royal Navy's biggest overseas deployment for 10 years. The ship played a key role as the Advanced Force Commander for Operation Taurus 09 - a large amphibious exercise involving Turkish, American, French and Dutch navies. The ship also had a series of visits to Malta, … [Read more...] about HMS Argyll returns to Devonport
HMS Talent part of a Royal Navy Task Group
HMS Talent, as part of a Royal Navy Task Group which forms the biggest deployment to the Far East in more than a decade, is preparing to head into some of the busiest sea lanes of the world, notorious for pirate attacks. The nuclear-powered Trafalgar-class HMS Talent has a long standing affiliation with the town of Shrewsbury and is one of the 12 ships of Exercise Taurus … [Read more...] about HMS Talent part of a Royal Navy Task Group
HMS Northumberland Homecoming
The crew of the Devonport-based Royal Navy frigate HMS Northumberland sailed into their home port today for a long-awaited reunion with friends and families. The ship has been on deployment for the last 6 months on humanitarian duties and on the counter-piracy mission Operation Atalanta, as part of the European Union's Naval Force. HMS Northumberland was the first ship in … [Read more...] about HMS Northumberland Homecoming
South West Commando Engineers Return Home after Helping Rebuild Helmand
Over 110 Army Commando Engineers from Devon have returned home after a demanding six month tour in Helmand - helping supporting Coalition and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. The unit is the first major 3 Commando Brigade unit to return home early this morning to the United Kingdom and the soldiers were welcomed home late last night to their Chivenor barracks after … [Read more...] about South West Commando Engineers Return Home after Helping Rebuild Helmand
HMS Trenchant returns to Devonport from deployment east of Suez
HMS Trenchant the Nuclear Powered Trafalgar Class Submarine (SSGN 17) returned to Devonport today following a very busy year. Deployments to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and more recently, East of Suez have kept the submarine almost consistently at sea or at immediate readiness for ten out of the last twelve months. She sailed from Devonport in February 2008 and spent … [Read more...] about HMS Trenchant returns to Devonport from deployment east of Suez
New Commanding Officer for HMS Sutherland
Commander John Payne has been appointed Commanding Officer of the frigate, HMS Sutherland, which will deploy to the Caribbean this summer on the front line in the global war against drugs. Commander Payne's interest in a life at sea was raised when a Royal Navy presentation team came to visit his class at school. He said: "It looked like a great life, full of adventure and … [Read more...] about New Commanding Officer for HMS Sutherland
New man in command of HMS Chatham
Commander Simon Huntington has taken over the Command of the Type 22 Frigate HMS Chatham, at her base in Devonport, Plymouth. Simon Huntington was born in Southern Scotland in 1969 and raised in Cumbria. He went to the Trinity School in Carlisle and then studied Marine Biology at Newcastle University as a Royal Navy Bursar, while also training as a Seaman Officer in the … [Read more...] about New man in command of HMS Chatham
South West Royal Marines in Afghanistan.
Plymouth-based 42 Commando and joint forces have hit the ground running on arrival in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, achieving early successes engaging Taliban forces. 42 Cdo RM has undertaken the role of Regional Battle Group South, working directly for the Regional Command (South) HQ in Kandahar . They are the regional task force right across southern Afghanistan , taking … [Read more...] about South West Royal Marines in Afghanistan.
