HMS Lancaster retiring: Built for 18 years of service – but went on to do 34
The Royal Navy's longest-serving Type 23 frigate will not be coming back to the UK one last time, but will instead be disposed of in Bahrain
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Navy RFA Resurgent: What we know about the first of the Navy's Fleet Solid Support ships
Construction of the first of three Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ships has begun at a North Devon shipyard
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CSG25 Royal Navy flagship to be placed under direct Nato command for the first time
This latest change means that Nato will be in control of a carrier strike group, including HMS Prince of Wales, for the first time
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RAF Bombs away: F-35B Lightnings aboard HMS Prince of Wales strike in the Indo-Pacific
The latest phase of Operation Highmast saw F-35B Lightning jets drop Paveway IV Bombs
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Navy HMS Diamond's crew recognised for bravery after repeated attacks by Houthis
Sailors from the Type 45 destroyer have been recognised by the United States Navy for their courage during missile and drone attacks in the ...
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Tri-Service In pictures: From night raids to beach landings, multinational Ex Tarassis wraps up
Tarassis brought together thousands of personnel, and dozens of ships and aircraft across the North Atlantic, Scandinavia and Baltic regions
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CSG25 Carrier Strike Group 25 says sayonara to a Japanese ship as US vessel expected to join
A Japanese vessel has left Carrier Strike Group 25, while a US vessel is expected to take over as the group continues its route back to the ...
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USA US flexes its muscles to Venezuela as USS Gerald R Ford deployed to Caribbean waters
What's going on in the Caribbean? Tensions between US and Venezuela see military action ramp up
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Nato Nato chief pokes fun at ailing Russian submarine 'limping' in English Channel
The Kilo-class submarine Novorossiyk had to come up to the surface off France to comply with navigation rules, Moscow claimed
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Navy New Zealand to pay Samoa $3.5m after its navy vessel ran aground and sank during reef survey
Former Royal Navy officer Commander Yvonne Gray gave the order for all hands to abandon ship when it ran aground, saving the 75 on board
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Navy 007 star HMS Westminster heads for retirement and disposal as she's towed to Portsmouth
She starred in Tomorrow Never Dies, shadowed Russian warships, and at one time carried some of the Navy's most advanced submarine-hunting ...
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Navy In pictures: Royal Navy patrol craft joins Latvian allies to safeguard Baltic waters
The exercise, Eastern Sea, was one strand of a series of early autumn exercises involving the Joint Expeditionary Force
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Navy Superstar on board: Find out why Scarlett Johansson paid a visit to HMS Prince of Wales
The Avengers Assemble star was filming My Mother's Wedding when she was photographed on the Royal Navy's flagship
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CSG25 HMS Prince of Wales arrives in Tokyo for historic visit to overlap with Defence Secretary's visit
The ship's arrival coincided with John Healey holding bilateral talks with his counterpart, General Nakatani, in the city
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Navy Foremast placed onto new Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer at Rosyth dockyard
Babcock released a video showing a timelapse of the mast being moved from the venturer building to the dockside
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Navy In pictures: What happens to Russian destroyer in UK waters? It's met with River-class OPV
Portsmouth-based patrol ship monitored Vice Admiral Kulakov and support tankers during five-day transit