Pimp My Ship: Dazzle, dragons and disguise – warships that turned heads with paint
It's not just grey – from dazzle patterns to dragon crests, BFBS Forces News explores the paint jobs that made waves
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Navy Best dressed: BFBS Forces News readers vote for HMS Stirling Castle's new paint job
With the news that freshly commissioned HMS Stirling Castle might be getting a paint scheme, we asked our readers for their decorating ideas
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Navy Before it's too late: Former RN commander calls for urgent action on depleted RFA
Criticism follows the withdrawal of a safety certificate for RFA Argus, which is now stranded in Portsmouth
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Navy From RFA to HMS: Stirling Castle, the minehunter with autonomous countermeasures – and a sauna
BFBS Forces News went on board HMS Stirling Castle in 2024 to see how she would help neutralise the sea mine threat
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Navy Royal Navy warships track five Russian vessels during first seven days of July
The warships and 815 Naval Air Squadron’s Wildcat aircraft were sent on three different operations in the North Sea and English Channel
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CSG25 HMS Richmond reaches Indonesia as Tidespring conducts RAS with her and NZ vessel
HMS Richmond is on its third trip to Jakarta after going ahead of the Carrier Strike Group 25 with Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez
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Navy Progress made as Navy's new ballistic missile sub and Type 26 frigate take shape
The City class frigate's aft block was slowly positioned in the brand-new Janet Harvey Hall at BAE Systems' shipyard in Govan, Glasgow
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CSG25 Carrier Strike Group 25 sails towards Australia for the largest-ever Exercise Talisman Sabre
The personnel will participate in drills focusing on live-fire exercises, amphibious landings, air combat and maritime operations
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Veterans No limits: Ex-Rifleman completes first triple-amputee solo sail across the Pacific
Craig Wood lost his left hand and both legs as well as sustaining facial injuries from an IED blast while on patrol in Afghanistan
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Navy Offshore patrol vessel HMS Spey transits the Taiwan Strait despite China's warnings
Lord Coaker backed the UK operating in such waters considering it keeps the international order underpinned by the rule of law
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CSG25 HMS Dauntless arrives in Singapore as New Zealand frigate joins CSG25
The Type 45 destroyer has sailed to the Garden City, which is unusual as she usually stays close by HMS Prince of Wales
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Navy Falklands veteran HMS Bristol waved off from Portsmouth as she heads to the scrapyard
The historic vessel, which saw action in the Falklands, was a warship originally designed to defend a class of aircraft carriers never built
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Veterans Triple-amputee veteran inches closer to completing his solo Pacific Ocean sail
After 75 days at sea, Mark Wood is 800 miles away from being the first triple-amputee to succeed in sailing the ocean solo
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Sea vessels Ready for the plunge: First Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer leaves Rosyth ahead of float-off
HMS Venturer is the first of five Inspiration Class vessels being built for the Royal Navy that will replace the Type 23
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Navy HMS Spey says g'day as she swaps sailors with HMAS Sydney in East China Sea
The training allowed British and Australian sailors to exchange places, giving an insight into life as part of the other's navy
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Navy Royal Navy warship primed for return to the fleet for the first time since Caribbean exploits
HMS Trent has been painted in a new camouflage wartime paint scheme ahead of her return to the UK for trials