The UK's Astute-class submarine, Agamemnon, newest nuclear submarine has successfully submerged for the first time at BAE ...
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8,100-ton nuclear submarine dives for first time, attack vessel proves water-tight integrity
“The trim and basin dive is a key step in the commissioning of HMS Agamemnon. This period enables us to set the boat’s ...
“ I enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1943 and when I was 17 joined my first ship H.M.S. Devonshire in Scapa Flow. Devonshire was by then a rather long in the tooth 10,000-ton cruiser with a main armament ...
I had earned accelerated advancement at the age of 17.5 years. That entitled me to be called Ordinary Telegraphist instead of Boy Telegraphist. I was, however, too young to drink but old enough to ...
HMS Westminster (F237) was filmed in Portsmouth, Hampshire to represent Type 23 Royal Navy frigate, HMS Chester, whilst HMS Dryad, a training simulator in Fareham, Hampshire portrayed the operations ...
Tory defence chief James Cartlidge may have got his naval facts shaken, not stirred, after mixing up a fictional James Bond boat with a real Royal Navy warship. In a blunder worthy a 'licence to ...
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Eileen Linder on behalf of Alexander Somerville, and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms ...
The grave of a First World War Able Seaman later awarded the George Cross has been given a new headstone. George Paterson Niven EGM / GC was born in Portobello, Edinburgh on March 15, 1897 but died ...
Cartlidge joked that he intentionally made the blunder to see if the MoD was using AI instead of humans to answer questions THE Tories’ defence chief got a ship from James Bond confused with a real ...
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