Nearly 200 Royal Navy sailors were recalled on Christmas Day so they could be deployed to shadow Russian warships spotted in the North Sea and English Channel. The crew of frigate HMS Somerset set sail on Friday December 27, to keep a watch on the corvette RFS Soobrazitelny and two …
Read More »Royal Navy and RAF reveal they have been tracking Russian vessels in the English Channel, North Sea and North Atlantic in joint operation as Putin’s forces enter British waters
Royal Navy and RAF reveal they have been tracking Russian vessels in the English Channel, North Sea and North Atlantic in joint operation as Putin’s forces enter British waters The Navy and RAF said their warships and patrol aircraft tracked Russian vessels They monitored operation of Russian navy movements in …
Read More »‘Last Royal Navy veteran of Dunkirk’ dies aged 102: Tributes pour in for great-grandfather who signed up to be a sailor on his 18th birthday – one year before WW2 broke out
Tributes have been paid to a soldier believed to be the last Royal Navy veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation who has died aged 102. Lawrence Churcher was posted to HMS Eagle at the start of World War Two and landed in France in May 1940 to help get ammunition to …
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