Monthly Archives: March 2012

 Defender resumes her sea trials as new destroyer gears up to join the Fleet News Defender resumes her sea trials as new destroyer gears up to join the Fleet 12 March 2012 Britain’s fifth Type 45 destroyer has sailed for four weeks at sea off the west coast of Scotland to complete her trials. HMSContinue reading “The new Darings, HMS Defender”

News Liverpool salutes her ship as veteran destroyer leaves the Mersey for last time 5 March 2012 For the last time HMS Liverpool has seen her namesake city, departing the Mersey today to cheers and a gun salute. The 30-year-old destroyer, veteran of last year’s Libyan conflict, has spent five days in the shadow ofContinue reading “HMS Liverpool”

The top image, taken by the great Australian photographer Frank Hurley, shows Shackleton’s party at Point Wild in 1916 and the lower image the same spot 96 years later, as recorded by LA(Phot) Arron Hoare SEPARATED by nearly a century, sailors from the Navy’s ice ship HMS Protector return to the exact spot where Britain’sContinue reading “HMS Protector in the Antarctic visits Shackleton’s landing place”

Shooting tsars turn chuting stars as naval gunnery experts jump into Gibraltar News Shooting tsars turn chuting stars as naval gunnery experts jump into Gibraltar 1 March 2012 Naval gunfire experts have spent a week jumping into the Mediterranean to practise parachuting into war zones. The forward observers and liaison officers, who directed the gunsContinue reading