The ageing warships are getting increasingly expensive to maintain, with some vessels recently axed in poor condition.

UK Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Sutherland has set sail for training after a four-year service life extension (LIFEX), marking a milestone in its journey back to full operational capability.

The Type 23 frigate was originally put up for tender alongside three other retired vessels. HMS Walney, a Sandown-class ...

They are the third and fourth City-class frigates being produced for the Royal Navy to replace their Type 23 counterparts. Engineers from APCL Cammell Laird constructed the latest blocks which ...

The Royal Navy Type 23 frigate was involved in a collision at sea when a piece of the ship’s underwater tracking equipment came into contact with a Russian submarine, it has been revealed.

The Royal Navy was deployed to escort oceanographic survey ship Admiral Vladimirskiy, Russian landing ship RFN Alexander ...

Royal Navy warships have scrambled to shadow Russian ships in UK waters. Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset, along with minehunter ...

THE Royal Navy scrambled sea and air power to escort three Russian “spy ships” through the English Channel. One of the ships ...

Two Royal Navy warships shadowed a Russian task group as it sailed through the English Channel and North Sea. The ships included the Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset and minehunter HMS Cattistock.

Key structural components for the Type 26 ships HMS Belfast and HMS Birmingham have been completed. They are the third and ...