Crowds lined the streets to bid farewell to their adopted Royal Navy submarine and crew today as they marched through the centre of Torquay led by the HM Band of the Royal Marines. Hundreds of cheering and clapping shoppers, workers and residents applauded the crew of HMS Torbay marching for the final time through the town as they handed back their traditional civic … [Read more...]
Sailors celebrate HMS Torbay’s proud service
The ship’s company of the Royal Navy submarine HMS Torbay celebrated her proud history at a decommissioning service today . After 32 years of service the Plymouth-based nuclear-powered submarine was alongside a jetty in Devonport Navy Base for the last time as she decommissioned via a ceremony at which a few tears were shed Her 614,000 mile journey around the world, … [Read more...]
Devonport Naval Base plays a starring role in a new TV documentary
The Royal Navy in Plymouth’s Devonport Naval Base plays a starring role in a new television documentary series (Friday 26 February). The programme features diverse subjects such as a wedding in Devonport Naval Base, a submariner leaving his family to deploy far away and a warship crew training on her main gun at sea. Quest’s brand new six-part series Devonport: Inside the … [Read more...]
HMS Torbay submariners march proudly through Torquay
The Royal Navy was cheered through the streets of a South West town when submariners paraded proudly through the high street. Hundreds of people lined the streets to see more than 100 sailors of the Plymouth-based submarine HMS Torbay parading through Torquay town centre and onto the sea front as hosts of Torbay Council taking part in a ceremony underlining the close … [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...]
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...]