The most famous ship constructed at the yard was the ill-fated HMS Kelly - launched in 1938 and commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten in World War II. Having survived a near-fatal torpedo attack by ...

A proud Lieutenant Commander has taken charge of one of the busiest ships in the Royal Navy. Lt Cdr Martyn Mayger has become ...

The Royal Navy saw off an encroaching Russian warship in the English Channel. HMS Iron Duke, HMS Tyne, a Wildcat helicopter ...

Royal Navy ships and aircraft closely monitored a Russian naval task group as it sailed through the English Channel this week ...

The armed Russian ships were returning from Syria in what the UK is calling a "hasty withdrawal" from the Middle Eastern ...

HMS Iron Duke has tracked Russian warships on average once a fortnight with the latest ships being monitored since the early ...

THIS is the moment Sun Man Jerome Starkey joined Royal Navy gunboats as they intercepted a Russian convoy in a dramatic Channel showdown. HMS Iron Duke charged at full speed up to a Russian ...

ITV News spent time on HMS Iron Duke and a Wildcat helicopter helping to gather intelligence on Russian warships in the English Channel. | ITV National News ...

The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend in 1969. At the time, she was the largest vessel to have been built in Britain.

An RAF maritime patrol aircraft, alongside HMS Cattistock, HMS Tyne and RFA Proteus, shadowed her every move. The Yantar's crew eventually complied with a 'polite' warning issued by the ...

The last British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the torpedoes that sank ...

A flatulent whale sparked fears Russian spy drones were spying on UK nuclear submarines on behalf of Vladimir Putin. The suspected farting was twice picked up by Navy sensors that had been ...