Yesterday I visited the Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond, recently returned from months at the sharp end in the most intense naval combat anyone has seen since the Falklands War. Diamond returned in ...

Kate Middleton visits the HMS Glasgow in Scotland on May 22, 2025. Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace One day before the ship naming outing, Prince William had a solo engagement in Scotland on May ...

HMS Glasgow is the first of eight new Type 26 warships being built in Glasgow The 150m (492ft)-long ship, which will have a crew of 161, is the ninth Royal Navy warship to be named after Glasgow.

Lord West, who won a Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for his actions on May 21 and 22, 1982, told the PA news agency how he once received a card from a young girl “explaining what her ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales will attend the official naming ceremony of the warship HMS Glasgow. Kate was named the sponsor of the state-of-the-art Type 26 anti-submarine frigate in June 2021, a ...

The new Princess of Wales, 40, hosted a solo audience at Windsor Castle on Thursday. The senior royal welcomed the Royal Navy Ship's Company of HMS Glasgow, a modern battleship that's currently ...

Chris Howe, of the South Atlantic Medal Association 1982, said: “As HMS Bristol embarks on its final voyage to the scrapyard in Turkey, we pause to reflect on its remarkable and unique legacy.

The HMS Hermes aircraft carrier served Britain’s Royal Navy for more than half a century. In fact, from its keel laying in 1944 to scrapping in 2021, the massive vessel stalked the seas for ...

By 2025, the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers are expected to be joined by the first warship in a new frigate class, the City class. This will be HMS Glasgow, the first of eight Type 26 frigates ...

HMS Glasgow was laid down at BAE's Govan yard in 2017 and launched at the end of 2022, when she was floated off a special barge into the Clyde.