Tributes have been paid to a seaman's "heroic" actions during the 85th commemoration of the sinking of a World War Two flak ...

HMS Spey is one of two British warships permanently stationed in the Indo-Pacific. The last time a British vessel transited the Taiwan Strait was in 2021, when HMS Richmond drew similar ...

Sir Nick Hine , chief executive of Babcock's marine sector, said: "For the first time, we're seeing HMS Venturer, the first of her class emerge from the build hall - a powerful symbol of UK naval ...

Kate names HMS Glasgow by smashing bottle of whisky against its hull The Prince and Princess of Wales attended the naming ceremony which took place on the River Clyde. Thursday 22 May 2025 17:53, UK ...

The princess, the official sponsor for HMS Glasgow, was joined by the Prince of Wales at the ceremony held at a berth on the River Clyde where the warship’s design and build was led by BAE Systems.

When the British learned of Germany's deployment of the Bismarck and Prince Eugen to disrupt Atlantic shipping, they urgently planned an interception. On May 24, 1941, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS ...

Royal Navy's flagship HMS Prince of Wales begins eight-month deployment As many as 4,500 military personnel will be involved in exercises in the Indo-Pacific region, which will include support ...

In 1938 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and in 1940 was posted to the destroyer HMS Zulu in which he took part in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The designation HMS, then, is primarily for commissioned ships of the British Royal Navy. Since 1913's Ships' Names Committee, there has been a British body in charge of naming vessels.

That plan never worked. On its only mission on 6 September of the same year, the Turtle failed to breach the hull of the HMS Eagle, which had been reinforced with copper sheathing.

Eagle Archives, April 5, 1940: When Mrs. Elizabeth Naidi Hetman of Sandisfield came to America from Russia just before World War I, she worked for Thomas Alva Edison at his ...