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Charred remains of HMS Sheffield hit by an Exocet missile.

PLANS to sell off a former Royal Navy aircraft carrier are in tatters after an auction failed to find a buyer.

THESE are the first pictures of the Royal Navy’s giant new flagship as she is put through her paces in the North Sea. HMS Queen Elizabeth – nicknamed Big Lizzie – towered above warships…

HMS Ark Royal (R09) en route to the United States, 1978. British Royal Navy aircraft carrier

Royal Navy Astute class submarine HMS Ambush is pictured alongside the forward support vessel RFA Diligence in Gareloch, HMNB Clyde, Scotland.

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British risk advisory company Prevail Partners has unveiled its proposal for the Royal Navy’s two new littoral strike ships which were announced by the UK defense secretary earlier this month. Prevail say their multi role vessel (MRV) was designed as a mobile logistic and helicopter base, enabling nations to project power and carry out special […]

The gallery presents a look inside the 1980s time capsule that is HMS Plymouth. The Royal Navy frigate helped save the Falklands Islands from Argentinean invasion in 1982.

Written by D-Mitch HMS Blake as a helicopter cruiser Laid down in 1941-42, the three cruisers of the Tiger class were originally to have been sister ships to Superb, an improved variant of the Swiftsure class cruisers (also known as the Minotaur class), a modified version of the Crown Colony class cruisers, but their construction was slowed down. Finally, the ships were launched in 1944-45 and they were left incomplete until their future had been decided. It was not until 1951 that a plan…

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