During the Falklands War in 1982, the British destroyer HMS Sheffield was operating in the South Atlantic as part of the task force sent to retake the islands from Argentina. After the sinking of the ...

A UK warship shot down a supersonic missile in what the Royal Navy called a "historic first." The HMS Dragon warship "obliterated" the missile in a test off the coast of Scotland. The Type 45 air ...

It’s a crisp June evening in the Norwegian Sea. Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes surveys the horizon as the ship steams southward, flanked by the destroyers ...

In June 2025, the British Royal Navy dispatched a fleet of warships and helicopters to track a Russian vessel as it transited the English Channel and North Sea. One of the vessels sent to monitor the ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.25136992.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25136992.2 Destroyers are small warships (defined in the London Treaty of 1930 as being no more ...

Many thanks to subscriber Mike Fisher for suggesting this fascinating topic! The Royal Navy lost several warships to air ...

HMS Duncan, the Royal Navy destroyer, is currently attached to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), which serves as the international military alliance’s main task force in the northern European ...

The number of operational ships in the Royal Navy has fallen to a worryingly low figure.

The Portsmouth-based destroyer was the first Royal Navy warship dispatched to the region to support the US-led multinational military operation. D-34 was supported by the Bahrain-based Royal Navy ...