Category Archives: Frigates

Joe Hearn – 4th June 2026 at 10:37am The Royal Navy will receive all eight of its Type 26 frigates as planned, despite speculation over build slots being offered to the Norwegian navy, Defence Minister Luke Pollard has confirmed. It came in response to a written question from Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty, who asked theContinue reading “Royal Navy’s Type 26 programme fully on track amid landmark Norwegian agreement”

Emma Turton – 18th December 2025 at 10:46am Ending a busy year with more than eight months away from her home port on national tasking, HMS Somerset has returned to Plymouth. Her taskings have included operations tracking Russian vessels – including the Yantar – in UK waters, working alongside Nato allies, and the firing of the first NavalContinue reading “In pictures: Submarine-hunting HMS Somerset home for Xmas after eight months away”

She was built at HM Dockyard Portsmouth. She was launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 December 1968. She took part in the Falklands War and was sold to India in 1995, for use as a training ship, being renamed INS Krishna. She was finally decommissioned in May 2012.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Andromeda_(F57)Continue reading “HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.”

December 9, 2025, by Fatima Bahtić The Royal Navy’s longest-serving frigate, HMS Lancaster, has been retired after 34 years of operational service. The 4,500-tonne warship powered down its engines in Bahrain after completing 4,097 days at sea and travelling 816,000 nautical miles. Launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the Clyde in 1990 and namedContinue reading “Royal Navy’s longest-serving frigate retires”