With a blinding arc of light as the laser cutter sliced through steel plate, work started this week on the Royal Navy’s new frigate HMS Formidable ... Ceptor air defense missile system, a ...

and the Leander class frigates HMS Penelope, HMS Minerva, and HMS Andromeda. Once in the South Atlantic, the Bristol joined Task Force 317.8, recording Sea Dart missile launches with no shoot-downs.

The discovery of HMS Gloucester, 28 miles off the coast ... The 'outstanding' 60-gun Gloucester, a frigate, sank on May 6, 1682 after hitting the Norfolk sandbanks in the southern North Sea.

A stalwart warship of the Royal Navy which has seized millions of pounds of drugs as well as cruise missile parts has ... to say farewell to the Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose.

At the same time, it’s also gradually replacing the frigate and submarine fleets ... and an Mk41 vertical launch silo, for missile systems. HMS Birmingham will also flaunt powerful sonars ...