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 ...

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 ...

“ 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 ...

The flash tore through the ranks of the 30 Indian naval cadets in HMS Devonshire: there was an Indian merchant ship anchored a few cables away from us. The flash tore through the ranks of the 30 ...

Leading Steward John Conti Borda, who joined the Royal Navy in October 1935, embarked on the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire in May 1939. He was wary of the vessel at first as it was nicknamed the Hoodoo ...

The destruction of the aircraft carrier by German battlecruisers was one of the biggest losses of life in British Naval history For one Esher man, the incident and the circumstances around Operation ...

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 ...