Royal Navy

Malaysia’s maritime agency said Monday it found a cannon shell believed to be from World War II on a Chinese-registered vessel.

Dubai – A British warship intercepted a boat smuggling Iranian weapons, including anti-tank missiles, off the coast of Oman in a joint operation with US forces last week, officials said Thursday.

LONDON (AP) – A Royal Navy warship has returned to port in Britain after several sailors got sick from the vessel’s drinking water, officials said Saturday.

Britain’s armed forces are no longer able to play a full role in NATO or defend the homeland after years of cutbacks, according to British defence sources, with a senior American general warning London that it has a “barely tier two” force.

Britain’s Royal Navy helped to execute the “terrorist attack” which damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to the European Union, the Russian defence ministry has alleged.

One illegal is said to have broken into a person’s home in Dover after the UK’s Royal Navy failed to intercept a number of migrant boats.

Iran has “immense naval power” that enables it to project force into the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz and beyond. That is the unalloyed warning from the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, to both the U.S. Navy and the “old fox” British Royal Navy.

A malfunction resulted in a £420,000 Home Office drone crashing into the English Channel rather than patrolling for illegal boat migrants.

An international fleet of naval warships could break the Russian blockade of Ukraine which is preventing the export of huge amounts of food.

Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government for the Royal Navy to take charge of the Channel migrant crisis are a failure before they have “even started”, a parliamentary committee has warned.

Disabled veterans have been left without accommodation after a hotel cancelled a Falklands War anniversary event to make room for alleged asylum seekers.

The British Army has been tasked with building temporary migrant camps in Britain to house up to 30,000 illegal migrants from next month.

The British government’s latest plans to tackle illegal migration have faced staunch criticism from Nigel Farage as well as Conservative MPs.

Get the jab or leave the service. That is the career advice sailors in the Royal Navy were given by the UK government on Monday.

The migrant crisis in the English Channel is continuing its record-setting pace, with nearly another 200 illegals landing on Saturday.

Boris Johnson appears to have rediscovered the concept of border control, having promised to deploy the Navy to secure the channel in a bid to boost his waning popularity.

The USS Constitution, the world’s oldest ship of any type still afloat, is ready to welcome the first female commander in its storied 224-year history.

British lawmakers delivered a report on Tuesday calling for more funding to increase the size and upgrade the capabilities of the Royal Navy.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to double the number of women recruits in the military by 2030.

The role had been filled by army or airforce officers in the Afghan era, an admiral indicates where Britain thinks it will fight next.

The UK continues to strengthen bonds with allies with a rare example of “quad carrier operations” on China’s doorstep. 

The UK announced new military talks with Japan just hours after China protested Britain sailing a warship through the Taiwan Strait. 

A British warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a move that challenges Beijing’s claim to the sensitive waterway and marks a rare voyage by a non-US military vessel.

China said it was “highly irresponsible” for the U.S. and Britain to export nuclear technology. Morrison said Australia wants to boost peace.

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The hijackers who captured a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman departed the targeted ship on Wednesday, the British navy reported, as recorded radio traffic appeared to reveal a crew member onboard saying Iranian gunmen had stormed the asphalt tanker.

The UKMTO warned of a “potential hijack” of a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman, without elaborating.

The United Kingdom has the right to sail its latest aircraft carrier anywhere in the world international law permits and will do so, it said.

Britain’s Carrier Strike Group’s F-35 stealth jets have carried out their first counter-Islamic State combat missions from HMS Queen Elizabeth, the British Ministry of Defense said.

A Russian warship and jet interceptor fired warning shots across the path of a British warship on Wednesday afternoon, it is claimed.

Prince Andrew has been dumped as patron by almost 50 organisations amid questions over his links to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a Sunday newspaper report alleged.

French anger around the British reclaiming their territorial waters post-Brexit and the British response to it took a bizarre turn as a tricorn-wearing re-enactor was seen firing a flintlock musket as French fishermen prepared to blockade a British port.

The government has sent two Royal Navy gunships to monitor the situation in the waters of Jersey as some 60 French fishing vessels descended on the British Crown Dependency amidst a post-Brexit fishing dispute with France, which has threatened to cut the electricity to the English Channel island.

The carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth set off for a two-week exercise in preparation for a 28-week deployment.

British warships billed as the “largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the U.K. in a generation” will depart next month.

This is part of the UK’s £24bn defence spending splurge, presumably to be financed from a Magic Money Tree, called the Integrated Review.

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has said “muddle-headed lefties” should stop dragging Britain’s name through the mud and highlight its dangerous and expensive crusade to stamp out the global slave trade.