On April 5th, 1942, two Royal Navy heavy cruisers, hms Cornwall and Dorsetshire, were patrolling the Indian Ocean west of Ceylon. They were unaware that the full strength of the Japanese First Air ...

The MOD has agreed to sell HMS Ocean to the Government of Brazil after 20 years of service. Sold to the Brazilian Navy for around £84M ($117m), the profit generated from the sale will be reinvested in ...

In April 1942, just days after crippling two British cruisers off Ceylon, Japanese carrier-based dive bombers struck again. Their target: the Royal Navy’s hms Hermes, Britain’s first aircraft carrier.

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Families of those on board HMS Ocean are preparing for her arrival home to Devon after the war in Iraq. She arrived off the South West coast on Tuesday and is due to take part in a formal homecoming ...

The Sea Vampire made history as the first jet-powered aircraft to land on a carrier in 1945. The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II. The de ...

HMS Richmond visits Mumbai after successful bilateral naval exercise, emphasizing cooperation between India and the United ...

Exercise Konkan, named after the strategically crucial region on the Western coast of India, is undertaken every two years to ...