The UK Royal Navy’s Vanguard class of ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) provide the UK with its continuous-at-sea deterrent (CASD) coverage and have done so since 1994 when the boats started to ...

IT WAS a case of football dropping in rather than coming home – with the English Premier League Trophy hoisted on board a nuclear sub. Former Manchester City players flew to Faslane Naval Base to show ...

Defence giant Babcock has signed a £560m contract to refit one of the Royal Navy's Trident nuclear submarines at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth. It said more than 1,000 jobs will be secured as a ...

My recent photograph of HMS Victorious leaving Portsmouth and passing the Round Tower prompted Mike Nolan to look through his collection. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can ...

Lend lease to the United States Navy 1943. His Majesty King George VI came aboard the HMS Victorious and came along on exercise with us to see the workings of an aircraft carrier with the aircraft etc ...

What You Need to Know: The Royal Navy’s Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines have been the cornerstone of the UK’s nuclear deterrent since the early 1990s. Comprising four vessels—HMS Vanguard, ...

A Royal Navy submarine which was fully armed with nuclear missiles aborted a top secret operation after a fire broke out onboard. The £3billion HMS Victorious, which is one of Britain’s four Trident ...

The sailor stands in front of me... looking his new shipmate up and down. Then, pointing at my handbag, he says: “Ma’am, I’m afraid I need you to give me your perfume please. And your deodorant. And ...

Trident submarine HMS Victorious is set to be modernised for the Royal Navy with a half a billion-pound life extension programme. Babcock and the UK’s Submarine Delivery Agency have agreed a contract ...