THERE was sadness this morning (Thursday, April 3) as the former HMS Monmouth was towed out of Portsmouth on its last voyage to be scrapped in Turkey. It follows news of another blow to the town's 359 ...

When HMS Vanguard was completed, the age of the battleship was already fading—submarines, aircraft, and long-range missiles had made such colossal warships nearly obsolete. Despite this ...

In recent years, the length of British submarine patrols under the nuclear deterrence program has increased significantly. The last eight missions have each exceeded five months. HMS Vanguard returns ...

HMS Vanguard was kept patrolling at sea for more ... patrol - a moment known as "Day Zero" - in more than a decade. The last time this happened was with David Cameron in 2013.

Nuclear-armed stealth submarines are hailed as the ultimate guarantor of a nation’s security, ensuring an assured second-strike capability by remaining hidden deep beneath the waves. Yet their very ...

Ultimately, HMS Vanguard was commissioned in 1946, a year after WWII had ended. What makes the Vanguard so memorable for the British is the fact that she was the last official battleship the Royal ...

The night of February 3, 2009, witnessed a rare and alarming event: Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant, both nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, inadvertently collided while ...

A ROYAL Navy nuclear-armed submarine has smashed the record for the longest voyage after 201 days ... record of 195 days which was set by HMS Vigilant last year. During that time the 149 crew ...