Tory defence chief James Cartlidge may have got his naval facts shaken, not stirred, after mixing up a fictional James Bond boat with a real Royal Navy warship. In a blunder worthy a 'licence to ...

“ I enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1943 and when I was 17 joined my first ship H.M.S. Devonshire in Scapa Flow. Devonshire was by then a rather long in the tooth 10,000-ton cruiser with a main armament ...

Leading Steward John Conti Borda, who joined the Royal Navy in October 1935, embarked on the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire in May 1939. He was wary of the vessel at first as it was nicknamed the Hoodoo ...

HMS Westminster (F237) was filmed in Portsmouth, Hampshire to represent Type 23 Royal Navy frigate, HMS Chester, whilst HMS Dryad, a training simulator in Fareham, Hampshire portrayed the operations ...