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  • New HMS Raleigh accommodation pays tribute to Navy heritage

    HMS Raleigh's four new accommodation blocks, which pay tribute to Service personnel involved in the Falklands campaign, have formally been opened.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Somerset deploys to the Gulf

    The Type 23 frigate was seen off by friends and family of the crew from her homeport of Devonport, Plymouth, on Wednesday 26 May 2010, as she…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Busiest 24 hours for HMS Gannet's search and rescue team

    Going on call at 0900hrs on the morning of Wednesday 19 May, the crew of Lieutenant George ‘Logie’ Baird (aircraft captain and pilot), Lieutenant…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Chatham rescues seamen from storm

    NATO flagship HMS Chatham made a dramatic rescue of 23 seamen from a merchant vessel off the coast of Somalia on Friday 21 May 2010.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Battle Back swimmers train in Gibraltar

    A group of six servicemen from the Battle Back scheme have spent a week in Gibraltar honing their skills at the Army Swimming Team's training camp.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy vessels exercise in the Atlantic

    A number of Royal Navy vessels are currently deployed to the eastern seaboard of the USA as part of the AURIGA multinational Naval Task Group.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Chatham destroys pirate boats

    Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, currently deployed as NATO's counter-piracy flagship, has destroyed two boats after intercepting a group of suspected pirates in the Somali Basin.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Armed Forces Sikh Conference fosters 'sense of extended family'

    The fourth annual Armed Forces Sikh Conference, which took place at the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre at Amport House near Andover, has been celebrated as a huge success by delegates.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Crew of HMS Gloucester remember her WWII loss

    Sailors past and present of Royal Navy warships bearing the name HMS Gloucester attended a memorial service last week to remember the loss of the ninth Gloucester with 722 men in May 1941.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Scott returns home

    The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Scott returned to Devonport this week after six months on deployment in the southern hemisphere.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Gibraltar Regiment trains in the UK

    Soldiers from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment have recently completed their annual four-week exercise in the UK where they have made use of training facilities not available on The Rock.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bob Ainsworth sends message to Defence staff

    Bob Ainsworth has stepped down as Defence Secretary and issued the following statement:

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • HMS Clyde rescues British family in Atlantic

    HMS Clyde, the Royal Navy's Falkland Islands Protection Vessel, came to the rescue of a British family in their stricken yacht 1,000 miles (1,600km) east of the Falklands on Saturday 8 May 2010.

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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government