Posts Tagged ‘royal-navy’
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
The UK’s military operation in Iraq is to end on Sunday when the Royal Navy stops training Iraqi sailors.

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VIDEO: Sun sets on UK operation in Iraq
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
The UK’s military operation in Iraq is to end within hours when the Royal Navy completes its mission to train Iraqi sailors.

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Britain’s Iraq military campaign ends
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
The UK’s military operation in Iraq is to end within hours when the Royal Navy completes its mission to train Iraqi sailors.

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Britain’s Iraq military campaign ends
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Departure of Royal Navy training team ends UK operations in Iraq

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Final farewell
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
A Royal Navy warship made from plastic rather than metal leaves Faslane on the Clyde for active service in the Gulf.

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Plastic warship sails to the Gulf
Tags: clyde, faslane, from-plastic, gulf, metal-leaves, navy, royal, royal-navy, war, warship-made
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
A Royal Navy warship made from plastic rather than metal leaves Faslane on the Clyde for active service in the Gulf.

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Plastic warship sails to the Gulf
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Royal Navy has been involved in clearing mines off the Libyan port of Misrata, which they say were laid by pro-Gaddafi forces.

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VIDEO: Clearing mines at Misrata port
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The last known combat veteran from World War I has died. The British-born Claude Stanley Choules spent more than 40 years in the Royal Navy in England and Australia. He died in Australia at the age of 110. Like the last American World War I veteran,…
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Last WWI Combat Vet Dies
Tags: australia, british-born, combat-veteran, last-known, like-the-last, navy, royal, royal-navy, spent-more, the-age, world
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Potential buyers of the HMS Ark Royal will get a first chance to look at the Royal Navy’s former flagship later as tours start in Portsmouth.

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Having a deck-o: Bidders to view Ark Royal
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
A Royal Navy crewman continues to be questioned on suspicion of murder after a shooting on board a nuclear submarine that left a naval officer dead.

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Man still held over sub shooting
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
The Ministry of Defence auction website is inviting bids for the Royal Navy’s former flagship, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

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Going once…Ark Royal for sale on auction site
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Somali pirates could create a “huge catastrophe” by disrupting the UK’s energy supply, former head of the Royal Navy Lord West of Spithead has warned.

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VIDEO: Somali pirates ‘could cause huge catastrophe’
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Sunday, February 27th, 2011
A British sailor from the Royal Navy is killed in a road accident in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

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UK sailor dies in Dubai accident
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Saturday, February 26th, 2011
A contracts manager from the Vale of Glamorgan rescued by a Royal Navy frigate from Libya speaks of the moment he was robbed at knifepoint.

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Libya worker robbed at knifepoint
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
A rare insight into how the Royal Navy’s unmanned mini-sub, called Seafox, helps a ship’s crew clear underwater mines.

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Navy’s underwater ‘Seafox’ in action
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