Royal Navy

HMS Prince of Wales will soon be leaving Portsmouth and sail to the Indo-Pacific region as part of a major deployment. Here's all you need to know about her upcoming journey.

All you need to know about HMS Prince of Wales Indo-Pacific deployment

HMS Victory is being restored and a £45m project is currently underway to bring the former Royal Navy flagship back to her former glory. Lord Nelson's flagship is being regenerated with fresh timber and other additions.

Enlightening pictures of HMS Victory conservation - take the tour

Here are all the details about the Royal Marines Commandos Candidate Preparation Course, one of the main tasks you need to complete to become a Royal Marine.

Are you fit enough to conquer the Royal Marines Commando fitness test?

Here are all the details about the Royal Navy's Pre-Joining fitness test, and how you can beat it. Pictured are HMS Queen Elizabeth's ship's company take part in circuits in the hangar.

Challenging regime needed to beat the Royal Navy fitness test

Construction has started to build a new Type 26 frigate HMS Sheffield, with the shipbuilding programme supporting thousands of jobs in Scotland.

Landmark moment as construction begins to build HMS Sheffield

Minister for the Armed Forces Luke Pollard MP said the UK has a “formidable” ability to protect itself from Russian aggression.

"Formidable" RAF jets scrambled to meet Russians as ships deployed

Construction work has begun on the third of five Type 31 ships HMS Formidable. Pictured is work continuing on HMS Venturer(top) and HMS Active in the Venturer building ahead of the Steel Cut ceremony for the Royal Navy's third in class Type 31 frigate, HMS Formidable, at Babcock International Group, in Rosyth.

Pivotal Type 31 warship construction update issued

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Iconic business that worked on the Titanic enters administration

HMS Queen Elizabeth returned to Portsmouth on July 30 after spending several months in Rosyth for repairs.

Time-lapse video shows HMS Queen Elizabeth heading back to sea

Natalie Lewis of RNRMC, Lt Col (Read) John Donovan MBE, of ABF and Gavin J Davey OBE of RAFBF

New Scottish Gin to Honour Veterans for 80th Anniversary of D-Day

Mystery as F-35 jet spotted at UK airport - diverting from carrier. (Photo: Joel Bland - @JoelBlandSport on X)

Mystery as F-35 jet spotted at UK airport - diverting from carrier

King Charles III

King Charles to receive Scottish crown jewels to mark coronation

King Charles

King Charles pays tribute to troops to mark Armed Forces Day 2023

HMS Prince of Wales, the biggest ship the Royal Navy has ever had, was built in five years in contrast to two ferries still being built seven years after work started (Picture: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

SNP's credibility shot to pieces by string of blunders – Alex Cole-Hamilton

Historic 1963 Rolex Submariner watch set to be auctioned on Friday May 12

Rare Rolex watch from BBC’s Antiques Roadshow could sell for over £45k

The coronation flypast could be cancelled due to bad weather

Coronation flypast given green light following weather concerns
It had been revealed that the 60 aircraft, including the Red Arrows could have been called off if there was rain on Saturday, the day of the coronation of King Charles.
Rebecca Braybrook

Camilla Queen Consort: Get to know the wife of King Charles III

An RNLI life boat arrives back in port after taking part in a rescue mission in the English Channel.

Four people dead after small boat incident in English Channel

11 jobs that don’t require a degree and how much you could earn

Dame Kelly Holmes has announced that she is gay, saying she "needed to do this now"

Dame Kelly Holmes spent 28 years fearing she would be outed

The rare Royal Navy diver's Rolex watch

Ultra-rare Rolex sells for £155,000 at auction after years in Perthshire drawer

The rare MilSub Rolex, which has sat in its owner's drawers for decades, h is expected to bring between £80,000 and £120,000 at auction on Wednesday at Bonhams, in London
Pic: Nick Brewster

Ultra-rare Rolex could fetch up to £120,000 at auction

One startling image captures a Luftwaffe bombing raid on the Firth of Forth in 1939. Picture: Nigel Clarke

Luftwaffe aerial photos from skies over Scotland head to auction

The Royal Navy’s amphibious flagship will visit Edinburgh for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend.

Royal Navy warship to visit Edinburgh

A Spitfire (front) flying alongside a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, over RAF Conningsby.
Pic: MoD

Military aircraft will perform a mass flypast to mark the Platinum Jubilee

Babcock could relocate its shipyard at Rosyth to England within a few years if it is not welcome in an independent Scotland

Babcock shipyard could relocate if unwelcome in independent Scotland

Andrew Lamond has swapped sub-hunter RN helicopters for central heating systems.

Edinburgh-based HeatFix Scotland aims to be No. 1 boiler service repair company
A former Royal Navy helicopter engineer hopes to be flying high with his new boiler repair business.
Stephen Wilkie

Jim Morton, 61, who is walking the coast of the UK to raise funds for Gurkha Welfare Trust. Jan 13 2022.

Meet the man walking around the UK mainland

Petty Officer Joseph Neale on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Royal Navy sailor from Edinburgh back on dry land as HMS Queen Elizabeth returns

Craig "Mac" McDermott, a Royal Navy veteran who was 17-years-old during the first ferocious battle of the Falklands War.

Erskine care resident will never forget his Falklands War experiences

Veteran Myles Shandley at the Edinburgh Gardens today.

Garden of Remembrance opening sees war veteran lay wreath for lost comrades

Suranne Jones and Shaun Evans are starring in the gripping BBC submarine drama Vigil. Picture: Mark Mainz

Slow release of Vigil shows big TV moments can still be created – Brian Ferguson

HMS Queen Elizabeth: How many have Covid on Navy flagship - and where is the Carrier Strike Group now? (Photo: PA)

HMS Queen Elizabeth: How many have Covid on Navy flagship - and where is the Car...

Armed forces day in Glasgow's George Square, 2018 (John Devlin)

When is Armed Forces day and how are we marking it?

Boris Johnson has said the new national flagship will sail around the globe hosting trade talks and fairs to boost Britain's economy (Getty Images/Downing Street)

These are Boris Johnson's plans for the controversial new royal yacht

The Royal Navy amphibious assault ship HMS Albion arrivng on the Forth: Picture by LPhot Pepe Hogan.

Massive NATO exercise could cut WiFi signal across East Lothian

Two of the Royal Navy’s “Premier League” warships have left Portsmouth bound for Scotland for exercises ahead of a tour of the Indo-Pacific region.

Royal Navy warships set sail for massive NATO exercise in Forth

An Astute class nuclear submarine in company with the Type 23 frigate HMS Kent being over flown by a German Navy P3 maritime patrol aircraft (Pic: Royal Navy)

Leith and Rosyth ports deployed in major military exercise in Forth

Prince Philip: all of the Duke of Edinburgh’s medals and decorations - and what they were awarded for (Photo by JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Prince Philip: all of the Duke of Edinburgh’s medals and decorations - and what ...

A WW2 postcard has arrived in the UK 77 years late - here’s what it said (Photo: Shutterstock)

A WW2 postcard has arrived in the UK 77 years late - here’s what it said

Victory: Morleymor Fisher

Former Royal Navy commander scores a victory over Midlothian planners

The Heave Awa' House today

Who is the real Heave Awa' LAd?

A F-35B combat aircraft from the United States Marine Corp refuels from an RAF Voyager aircraft over the North Sea on October 08, 2020 in flight, above Scotland. Pictures: Leon Neal.

US and RAF planes refuel in flight during Joint Warrior exercise

In the past Chinooks have been spotted landing on Inchkeith

This is everything you need to know about 'Joint Warrior' - the military exercis...

The TV presenter has since apologised for his comments (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s why SAS Who Dares Wins' Ant Middleton has ‘quit’ his Royal Navy role

Here's how you can mark VE Day in Edinburgh today

Elderly people must not be written off in the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak (Picture: Donald MacLeod)

Don't dare write off elderly people like my 97-year-old mum – Steve Cardownie

How to explain World War Two to children - life for soldiers, and the Holocaust

The frigates will cost 250 million each

Frigate order safeguards hundreds of jobs at Rosyth

Britain's newest aircraft carrier, Prince of Wales, sailed from the firth of forth for the very first time. Picture: FotoWare/ Royal Navy Media Archive

Britain's newest aircraft carrier set sail for first time under Forth Bridges

The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth passes the Forth Rail Bridge as it leaves the Firth of Forth following maintenance at the Rosyth Dockyards, where some of the 2,500 shipbuilding jobs secured by the government will go. Picture: PA

Navy frigate contract secures hundreds of jobs at Rosyth

HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Firth of Forth earlier this year. Picture: PA

HMS Queen Elizabeth: Royal Navy's £3bn Scots-build carrier to be deployed

Were you unable to apply before because of your tattoos? (Photo: Shutterstock)

RAF tattoo policy: new relaxed rules come into force

HMS Queen Elizabeth anchored in the Firth of Forth. Picture: PA

HMS Queen Elizabeth: captain flown off ship amid ongoing row

The Typhoons were scrambled from Lossiemouth. Picture: RAF

RAF jets scrambled to intercept Russian bombers off Scottish coast