Simply because if they laid here half as long as the Frenchmen do, they would not have enough of a crew to brace around a royal yard. Seamen in the British Navy enlist for periods of five, seven ...

A poignant flag raising ceremony took place today to honour the British armed forces. Veterans, dignitaries and members of the public gathered in Guildhall Square this morning (June 23) for the ...

SAILORS, soldiers and Royal Marines from across Portsmouth are gearing up to fly the flag for the UK at the Commonwealth Games. News you can trust since 1877 Sign In ...

The British Royal Navy’s Vanguard-class nuclear missile submarines are a key part of the UK’s defense game plan. But lately, ...

Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name change by the Royal Navy “woke nonsense” to avoid offending the French.

A British Royal Navy ship will supply aid to Gaza as part of an international effort to help set up a new humanitarian maritime corridor in early May, the foreign office and ministry of defence ...

The British government sent a number of ships to search for the expedition from 1848 to 1859 without success. ... The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) bought the flag, ...

My late father was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and he spent most of his flying career in the CP-107 Argus and CP-140 Aurora aircraft, both of ...

Not only is this warship the only vessel in the U.S. Navy's fleet to fly a foreign flag, but it's also the only ship with an officer from Britain's Royal Navy aboard as a permanent member of the ...

Early on July 3, 1940, a massive British Royal Navy task force assembled off of Mers-el-Kébir in what was then French Algeria. The port was home to a small but powerful French Navy squadron that ...

A British museum is trying to raise £120,000 to prevent a flag owned by a famous Irish sailor and explorer Henry Kellett from leaving the British Museum in the UK.

The rare polar sledge flag of a "proud Irishman" and notable 19th Century naval officer could be lost to the UK. Born in County Tipperary, Capt Henry Kellett led two Arctic expeditions to search ...