The Latest Breaking News from The Royal Navy

Keir Starmer plans to build up UK military, but domestic companies could lose out if it is forced to turn to US weapons instead

ROYAL Navy tugboat and marine services crews based in Scotland are set to take strike action in March in a dispute over proposed contract changes.

Unite said 300 of its members at Devonport, Portsmouth, Faslane, Great Harbour Greenock and Kyle of Lochalsh will take industrial action in March.

Managing the pressures of an ageing population on the NHS while ramping up defence expenditure would be an ‘epochal challenge’, top economist warns

Letters: Rosalind Mitchell says the name Agincourt could have offended Scots as well as the French. John Rushton finds the humour in news of a royal intervention

Margaret Grey had a successful career in education but dreamed of joining the Royal Navy.

Deteriorating security environment and incidents in Baltic have forced military reassessment in northern Europe

Secretary of State for Defence John Healey said the Russian spy ship entered British waters on Monday.

Addressing the House of Commons, defence secretary said the spy ship is currently in the North Sea having passed through British waters

In a message to Vladimir Putin, Defence Secretary John Healey said ‘we see you, we know what you are doing and we will not shy away from robust action to protect this country’

Imagine you are at sea facing a violent battle with an enemy ship. The experienced 17th-century surgeon John Moyle asked his reader to do just that. In his printed guide of recommended practice, the reader was compelled to put themselves in the place of a ship’s surgeon in the thick…