As of 2023, planning envisaged Venturer being launched in 2024 and entering service by 2025.[12][13] In mid-2024 it was reported that the Type 31 program was likely behind schedule with Venturer ...

The colossus HMS Dreadnought will be Britain's largest and most complex submarine, and is set to inherit the country's nuclear Trident missiles. Sir Keir Starmer formally laid the keel for the ...

including crew of new frigate HMS Venturer) and the Royal Marines Band Scotland. In addition, Caledonia is home to the RN’s regional headquarters, the local reservist unit HMS Scotia, an acquaint ...

The ageing warships are getting increasingly expensive to maintain, with some vessels recently axed in poor condition.

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The Royal Navy has disrupted a major international drug smuggling operation, with HMS Lancaster intercepting and seizing £5.4 million worth of heroin and methamphetamine in the northern Arabian Sea, ...

The Royal Navy has hit the global illegal drugs network after frigate HMS Lancaster seized £5,4m of Class A drugs in the Middle East. The Royal Navy has struck a £5.4m hit to drug traffickers after ...

HMS Ledbury, a Hunt-class minehunter commissioned in June 1981, travelled past The Round Tower in Old Portsmouth this morning (March 13). Naval enthusiasts took pictures of the vessel as she ...

Thousands more welders and engineers are needed to boost the UK’s defence capabilities and move the sector to a war footing, industry insiders believe. Experts have warned that failing to fix ...