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NAVY PATROL VESSELS SHADOW RUSSIAN SHIPS

Two Royal Navy River Class offshore patrol vessels, HMS Mersey and HMS Severn, were ordered this week to shadow a Russian corvette and oil tanker

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THE RICHMOND TO BE DECOMMISSIONED

HMS Richmond, after decades of distinguished service to the nation, is due to retire this year and will likely conduct a coastal farewell tour of

January 24, 2026 No Comments

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NAVY SAILOR TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

An HM Coastguard helicopter was spotted on our live webcams this afternoon above HMS Sutherland winching a sailor from the Type-23 warship and taken to

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; Kevin Kelway, BCAc @Rockhoppas ·

30 Jan 2017194597911232725

Look Back Gallery dated 30th January 2024 and Royal Marines practice boarding operations with RFA Tidesurge with a Wildcat helicopter at the Plymouth Breakwater. In the distance the German frigate FGS Brandenburg on FOST Training: http://www.westwardshippingnews.com

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29 Jan 2017005461438882259

Time to sink the Chagos Surrender and self-determination for the Chagossian people and keep the islands British and save £35 Billion pounds to invest on our national defence and Royal Navy.

Nile Gardiner @NileGardiner

Powerful condemnation of Keir Starmer’s Chagos surrender deal from over 80 British and US political leaders, former defence chiefs, retired admirals, generals and national security officials.

Time for The White House to sink the Chagos deal and protect Diego Garcia.

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29 Jan 2016951300705943595

MY ADDICTION IS COMING HOME TO PLYMOUTH

I was to be part of Robert Lenkiewicz twentieth project, with many other sitters for his Addictive Behaviour paintings. We worked together on a few Barbican campaigns in the 1990s and early millennium, and my claim to the project was

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29 Jan 2016919393121325495

Look Back Gallery dated 29th January 2024 and the MOD's Strategic Sealift Ro-Ro Point Class Vessel MV Eddystone outbound in the Sound. http://www.westwardshippingnews.com
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29 Jan 2016832895957028891

Royal Marines Landing Craft outbound this morning in the Sound.

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29 Jan 2016822406363410433

Momentum building to stop this handover of British Sovereign territory by no less the WALL STREET JOURNAL. Self-determination for the Chagossians.

Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell

HUGE intervention from none other than the scholars of the WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial board AGAINST the Chagos deal

“Trump… (is) right on the need for Diego Garcia…. partnership has been a bulwark of global freedom for a century. The joint base is best kept in the free

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28 Jan 2016654949736702258

One of the proudest moments of my life and being given the British Citizen Award for community campaigning, and in London at the House of Lords dated the 26th January 2023. A wonderful memory and lookback to a great day.

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28 Jan 2016641650903109822

The German combat support ship the FGS Bonn being supported at the Plymouth Breakwater today by @SercoGroup tugs. http://www.westwardshippingnews.com
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; Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green @MPIainDS ·

28 Jan 2016589670658777166

Let me be absolutely clear: the greatest strategic threat we face today is China. It is acting in open defiance of international law, militarising vital sea lanes, threatening its neighbours and preparing for blockades that would choke global trade. The Chagos Islands sit at the

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