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Royal Navy -Royal Navy on hand to assist

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:00:13 GMT

Cayman Net News - Royal Navy Warship, HMS Iron Duke and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Wave Ruler have now arrived in the vicinity of the Cayman Islands, ready to render assistance if required in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.

Royal Navy - Navy forced to curb role as Gordon Brown imposes cuts

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:27:29 GMT

The Times - The government is planning further big cuts to the Royal Navy after deciding that terrorism is the only serious threat to Britain. Annual accounts from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) show that it is to cut funding for new ships and equipment by more than 20%, from about £1.8 billion a year to a maximum of £1.4 billion.

Royal Navy - 'Unacceptable' errors led to deaths in fire aboard sub on Arctic patrol

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:05:57 GMT

Guardian - A fire that killed two sailors aboard a nuclear-powered submarine as it patrolled beneath the Arctic ice was caused by a catalogue of errors that could have been avoided.

Royal Navy - Iranian hostage Royal Navy captain sacked

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:25:35 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The Royal Navy captain in charge of the HMS Cornwall during the Iranian hostage fiasco has suffered a "shattering blow" to his career after he was relieved of command.

Royal Navy - Navy called in after coastguards go on strike

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:02:22 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The Royal Navy will this weekend be forced to provide emergency cover for Britain's coastline because of a two-day strike by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Royal Navy - £3.2bn giant carrier deals signed

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:56:14 GMT

BBC -The Ministry of Defence has signed contracts worth £3.2bn to build the UK's biggest ever aircraft carriers.

Royal Navy - Prince William's ship makes major cocaine bust

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:17:35 GMT

Associated Press - The British Royal Navy ship on which Prince William is serving made a major cocaine bust in the north Atlantic.

Royal Navy - Avast there! Prince William to take on pirates of the Caribbean

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:15:38 GMT

The Times - Prince William is to go into action fighting the modern-day pirates of the Caribbean. He may be armed if he joins Royal Navy boarding parties that stop cocaine traffickers trying to smuggle drugs in fast launches.

The role is a consolation to the prince after he was banned from going to war in the Gulf with the Royal Navy because of fears his presence could provoke a terrorist attack on British ships.

Daily Telegraph - Prince William to take on Caribbean drug lords

Royal Navy - HMS Superb nuclear submarine damaged in Red Sea crash

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:16:27 GMT

The Times - A British nuclear-powered submarine was damaged when it collided with rocks in the Red Sea

Royal Navy - Royal Navy commanders let students crash nuclear submarine into seabed

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:08:42 GMT

The Times - A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine struck the bottom of the sea at more than 14 knots because of basic navigational errors made during a training exercise for three students on board.

Royal Navy - MoD ready to sign £3.9bn deal for two new aircraft carriers

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:17:07 GMT

The Times - Doubts over the Government's plan to order two 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers were lifted yesterday when the Ministry of Defence announced that it was ready to sign the £3.9 billion contract. A full audit of the carrier programme, including an assessment of whether there will be enough crew and pilots to man the huge vessels, has been ordered by one of the MoD's senior military commanders.

Royal Navy - Royal Navy may share new carriers with France

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:53:14 GMT

The Times - Two hundred years after the battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy could end up sharing the pride of its fleet with the French. Driven by spiralling budgets, the two navies began talks last week aimed at sharing their aircraft carriers.

Royal Navy - Defence chiefs have last-minute doubts about £4bn carriers

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:24:11 GMT

The Times - They were meant to be the pride and joy of Britain’s 21st-century fleet, an emblem of its pre-eminence as a military and diplomatic power. But last night it emerged that the imminent announcement of the commissioning of two aircraft carriers at a total cost of £4 billion has left some of the country’s senior military leaders deeply unhappy.

Royal Navy - Pirates can claim UK asylum

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:35:56 GMT

The Times - The Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights.

Royal Navy - Guns for hire? No, but there are warships for rent

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:54:30 GMT

The Guardian - The MoD is increasingly outsourcing to the private sector. It's leasing aircraft and ships today; will it be tanks and armies tomorrow?

Royal Navy - MoD hands over Royal Navy project to BAE to bypass £700m tax

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:53:32 GMT

The Times - The Ministry of Defence will reluctantly hand control of a project to build two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy to BAE Systems in an attempt to avoid a £700 million tax bill.

Royal Navy - The Whale In The Drawing Room

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:39:08 GMT

Defense Technology International - BAE Systems is working on the design of new-generation ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) for the Royal Navy, under a two-year study program that started after a March 2007 parliamentary vote. The SSBNs are expected to extend the life of the UK's independent deterrent to at least 2040, together with participation in the US Navy's Trident D5 Life Extension program and development of a new warhead, either built in the UK or collaboratively developed with the US.

Royal Navy - Dive bombers

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:52:34 GMT

The Times - They can wipe out entire nations, and the British government plans to build even more. Are the Trident nuclear submarines essential for peacekeeping, or are they just expensive relics of the cold war? We meet the men with their fingers on the trigger.

Royal Navy - MoD looks at delays to carrier contract

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:59:18 GMT

Financial Times - The Ministry of Defence is examining possible delays to its £4bn contract for two new aircraft carriers as it struggles to meet Treasury demands for swingeing cuts to its budget.

Royal Navy - Navy would struggle to fight a war

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:56:52 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The Royal Navy can no longer fight a major war because of years of under funding and cutbacks, a leaked Whitehall report has revealed.

Royal Navy - No Tanking

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:28:11 GMT

Defense Technology International - A British Defense Ministry decision to halt air-to-air refueling of its Nimrod MR2 maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft will almost certainly curtail the aircraft’s operational availability in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Royal Navy - Navy to patrol Gulf in the spring

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:12:13 GMT

Daily Telegraph - HMS Illustrious will be deployed in the Gulf next spring.

Royal Navy - Royal Navy disaster relief exercise of cruise in S. Atlantic

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:46:21 GMT

MercoPress - Battling her way through 800 miles of ferocious seas between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the Royal Navy Atlantic South patrol and an auxiliary vessel carried out this month a disaster relief exercise based around a typical South Atlantic cruise vessel visiting South Georgia and which supposedly had ran aground in deteriorating weather.

Royal Navy - Tearing Your Hair Out

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:24:24 GMT

Aviation Week - Top leaders of Britain's Royal Navy are "tearing their hair out" in frustration that they can't "get the message across" that the maritime service is playing a crucial role in ongoing, seemingly land-locked operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Royal Navy - Say When - new Oceanic Patrol Vessels for U.K.

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:35:52 GMT

Aviation Week - A look at the Royal Navy's Future Surface Combatant program.

Royal Navy - Labour's secret plans to slash the Navy

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:11:23 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The Ministry of Defense is to cut another five warships, leaving the Royal Navy only capable of "one small-scale operation".

Royal Navy - HMS Daring eases through first sea trials

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:43:07 GMT

Daily Telegraph - A new warship that can defend the entire city of London from missile and aircraft attack has completed its first Royal Navy sea trial.

Royal Navy - £4bn carriers 'will be jewel in Navy's crown'

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:31:13 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The long awaited main gate approval for the UK's new aircraft carriers was announced this afternoon in London.

Aviation Week - UK Carriers - Now The Work Starts

Royal Navy - Scots shipyards to share in £3.9bn super-vessels contract

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Scotland on Sunday - Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing to deliver a multi-billion-pound boost to his home nation, with confirmation that Scotland's shipbuilders will help to produce the biggest vessels ever ordered by the Royal Navy. The Prime Minister is set to put an end to years of delay by announcing the decision on the construction of the two "super carriers" within the next few days.

Royal Navy - Chagos Island exiles win right to return home

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:45:54 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by Britain to make way for an American airbase won their legal battle to return home yesterday. The only island that they will not be able to resettle under original High Court orders allowing their return will be Diego Garcia, where the airbase is situated.

Royal Navy - Nimrods exceeded planned flying hours for 2 years before fatal crash

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:35:58 GMT

The Scotsman - The RAF's Nimrods are worn out...

Royal Navy - Navy's stealth submarine will rule the oceans

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:21:30 GMT

Daily Telegraph - A new £1.2 billion Royal Navy submarine which from the Channel is able to detect the QE2 cruise liner leaving New York harbour was unveiled yesterday. The Astute, the first attack submarine to be built in almost two decades, is the "most stealthy in the world" and will put the Navy at the "top of the premiership", commanders said.

Royal Navy - Revealed: the MOD plan to move Trident

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:18:38 GMT

The Scotsman - Military chiefs are drawing up plans to move the UK's nuclear missiles south of the Border as concern mounts that Scotland is heading towards independence. The Ministry of Defence is so worried about the march of the Nationalists it has closely examined four sites for Trident's replacement outside of Scotland.

Royal Navy - A verse from 'Pinafore' explains it all

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:16:52 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Niall Ferguson comments on the current state of the Royal Navy, in light of its recent crisis with Iran.

Royal Navy - Horatio Hornblower's Worst Nightmare

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:39:59 GMT

Defense and the National Interest - William Lind compares todays Royal Navy to Hornblower's.

Royal Navy - 'Faye whispered, there's going to be a rape'

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:30:37 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The first graphic accounts of the tears, humiliation and mental torture of the 15 freed Royal Navy hostages emerged yesterday.

Royal Navy - Britons Speak Publicly on Captivity in Iran

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:47:16 GMT

Washington Post - British sailors and marines who were held captive by Iran for nearly two weeks said Friday they were seized in Iraqi waters, held in solitary confinement and subjected to intense psychological pressure, including fear at one point that they were about to be executed.

BBC - Released sailors tell of ordeal.

Royal Navy - British sailors set to come home

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:59:34 GMT

BBC - The 15 Royal Navy crew held captive by Iran are preparing to fly home after being freed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "gift" to the UK.

Daily Telegraph - Questions the Navy chiefs must now answer.

Royal Navy - Navy accused of failures and complacency

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:45:45 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Royal Navy intelligence gathering has been criticised as being "poor" for allowing 15 personnel to fall into the hands of the Iranians.

Royal Navy - Power struggle in Iran over hostages

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:02:05 GMT

The Times - The fate of the 15 British marines and sailors held in Tehran may depend on the outcome of a power struggle between two of Iran’s top generals.

Meanwhile Niall Ferguson puts the crisis in perspective for the UK:

Daily Telegraph - Iran targeted the Security Council's weakest link: us.

Royal Navy - US rejects Iran captives exchange

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:02:58 GMT

BBC - US officials have ruled out a deal to exchange 15 Royal Navy personnel captured in the Gulf for five Iranians seized by American forces in Iraq.

Meanwhile, let David Ignatius put this crisis in context for you...

Washington Post - 15 Britons In a Sea Of Intrigue.

Royal Navy - Iran TV shows seized UK navy crew

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:58:57 GMT

BBC - Iranian state television has broadcast an interview with captured British sailor Faye Turney and footage of the 14 servicemen seized with her.

Royal Navy - UK in 'discreet talks' with Iran

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:40:50 GMT

BBC - The UK government is attempting to "discreetly" talk to the Iranians to secure the release of 15 Royal Navy personnel.

Royal Navy - Seized sailors 'held in Tehran'

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:06:48 GMT

BBC - The 15 Royal Navy personnel who were seized on Friday are being held at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps base in Tehran.

Royal Navy - Stand-off in Gulf with Iran 'a bit like Cold War'

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:44:12 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Britain's most senior naval officer in the Gulf has likened the West's tense stand-off with Iran as being akin to "the height of the Cold War".

Royal Navy - First Sea Lord in threat to quit over cuts

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:56:38 GMT

Daily Telegraph - The First Sea Lord yesterday made veiled threats that he would resign from his post if the Government failed to deliver a Fleet that would be "serious player" on the High Seas.

Royal Navy - MoD 'covered up sinking of French trawler'

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:29:43 GMT

Daily Telegraph - A new book claims that a French trawler was dragged down by a Royal Navy submarine during "war games" off the Cornish coast in 2004.

Royal Navy - Fears over £3.6bn plan for new carriers

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:34:25 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Fears are growing among Royal Navy chiefs that the Ministry of Defence's delay in signing a contract for two major aircraft carriers could signal the project's demise.

Royal Navy - Promotion freezes as cuts bite in Navy

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:33:20 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Promotion for Royal Navy officers is to be frozen for five years in a cost-cutting measure that has caused fury in the Fleet.

Royal Navy - Navy to cut its fleet by half

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:09:58 GMT

Daily Telegraph - Royal Navy commanders were in uproar after it was revealed that almost half of the Fleet's 44 warships are to be mothballed as part of a cost-cutting measure.

Daily Telegraph - Cuts are a severe blow to officers' ambitions