Royal Navy

Paul Dickson with wife Lucy and children Finn and Jude, along with Reverend Desmond Hanna after Sunday's christening

Old-age maritime tradition revived as HMS Caroline hosts three christenings

The mural of Roger Casement at Casement Park, Belfast. As part of the successful Euro 2028 bid, Casement Park has been listed as one of the stadiums where games will be played.

Letter: Questions over funding for stadium development

Mystery as F-35 jet spotted at UK airport - diverting from carrier. (Photo: Joel Bland - @JoelBlandSport on X)

Mystery as F-35 jet spotted at UK airport - diverting from carrier

Belfast-based software company, Kinsetsu, has secured new contract wins valued at over £1million so far this year. Founded in 2016 by Joanne O’Doherty and Jackie Crooks (pictured), Kinsetsu provides innovative sensor-based and automation technology solutions that are deployed to drive positive change within critical service environments

Female founders of NI tech company secures new contracts worth over £1million

Morning View

Editorial: The generation of veterans who fought in World War Two is passing on

Ian Bannen who played Andy Bannister's father

The Belfast Boys: and the Yangtze Incident: Local man recounts events in book

King Charles III

King Charles to receive Scottish crown jewels to mark coronation

Smoke billows over New York on 9/11 (Press Association)

NI submarine vet likens Titanic wreck tours to sifting through remains of 9/11

King Charles

King Charles pays tribute to troops to mark Armed Forces Day 2023

Undated handout photo issued by OceanGate Expeditions of their submersible vessel named Titan, which is used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic

Thoughts now turning 'to the families left behind' - ex-Royal Navy crewman

Former submarine commander Steve Aiken urged people to pray for those in the missing submersible.
Photo: PA Liam McBurney.

Steve Aiken urges prayers for missing Titanic sub crew and passengers

Historic 1963 Rolex Submariner watch set to be auctioned on Friday May 12

Rare Rolex watch from BBC’s Antiques Roadshow could sell for over £45k

The coronation flypast could be cancelled due to bad weather

Coronation flypast given green light following weather concerns

Taking part in the Apprentice Boys of Derry march through Cookstown during the South Derry and East Tyrone Amalgamated Committee commemoration of the 334th anniversary of the start of the Siege of Londonderry on Easter Monday.
Thousands of marchers and over 40 bands took part in the parade through the Co. Tyrone town.

Apprentice Boys of Derry mark siege anniversary

The previous attorney general, John Larkin, had refused the request for a fresh inquest

New inquest ordered over 1972 Royal Navy veteran shooting

Camilla Queen Consort: Get to know the wife of King Charles III
Camilla will officially become Queen following the coronation of King Charles III in May. Here she is in profile, including when she and Charles initially met, her previous marriage and more

RFA Tidesurge is docked in Belfast, Northern Ireland, ahead of the building of three new RFA ships at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in the city. The ship arrived in Belfast earlier this week, and Captain Karl Woodfield and his crew are hosting the design team for the three new ships to share their experience and expertise

39,000-tonne RFA Tidesurge sails into Belfast

File photo dated 02/01/08 of Prince Harry (now the Duke of Sussex) patrolling the deserted town of Garmisir close to FOB Delhi (forward operating base) while posted in Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan. In the third episode of the Netflix documentary "Harry and Meghan" the Duke of Sussex has discussed his decade-long stint in the army and describing how that time "burst" the bubble of his life in the royal family. Issue date: Thursday December 8, 2022.

Harry accused of making Invictus Games a potential priority terror target

Prime minister Rishi Sunak will be in Northern Ireland for the next two days

Rishi Sunak “NI at the centre of our shipbuilding ambitions"

Leading Northern Ireland business man Noel Brady has joined the board of the HMS Caroline Preservation Company

Leading NI business man steps aboard HMS Caroline

An RNLI life boat arrives back in port after taking part in a rescue mission in the English Channel.

Four people dead after small boat incident in English Channel

The Royal Navy ships will be assembled at the Harland & Wolff facility in Belfast

Royal Navy ships order ‘will grow jobs at H&W’

Harland & Wolff shipyard.

'News Spanish Armada' will result from £1.6bn shipbuilding contract Labour says

Harland and Wolff has been contracted to complete three of the Royal Navy supply ships.

Anger as key work on new Harland and Wolff contract goes to Spain

The cranes at H&W.
Photo by Simon Graham/Harrison Photography

Ships for the Royal Navy – creating 1,200 new jobs - planned in Northern Ireland

Looking towards the front of the helicopter - rotor to right of photo - Courtesy DAERA

Rare 1958 Royal Navy Dragonfly helicopter crash site discovered on Foyle shore

Lieutenant Commander Paul 'Ronnie' Barker standing next to the gun carriage that is going to be used to carry Queen Elizabeth II's coffin during the funeral procession, while being towed by the Royal Navy sailors. Picture date: Wednesday September 14, 2022.

Queen’s coffin to be carried to Westminster Abbey on historic gun carriage
The Queen’s coffin will be carried during the procession to Westminster Abbey on a 123-year-old gun carriage towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors in a tradition dating back to the funeral of Queen Victoria.

11 jobs that don’t require a degree and how much you could earn

Members of the Belfast Movement Choir pictured during the shoot for their film 'Re-Emergence', which screens at Strand Arts Centre on Thursday June 23 at 6pm

Maiden Voyage Dance celebrates women

File photo dated 04/06/82 of British paratroopers carrying out emergency medical treatment on wounded comrades whilst under fire on Mount Longdon during the Falklands campaign. A series of lectures, memorials, exhibitions and other events will be launched in the coming days to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War. The aim is to commemorate the sacrifices made in 1982 and to celebrate the progress made in the islands in the South Atlantic over the past 40 years. Issue date: Sunday March 27, 2022.

Most people ‘clueless’ about Falklands War

Letter to the editor

Raise a glass of rum to our nuclear submariners keeping UK safe from Putin

Type 45s

Putin ‘laughing at the UK’ over the fact its warships break in warm water: Empey

News Letter editorial

Even the mildest Russian territorial goal now is totally unacceptable

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Steve Aiken and former submarine commander with the Royal Navy. Picture by Arthur Allison.

Ukraine has too many parallels for comfort with world wars: Aiken

First Minister Paul Givan and deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill pictured with Hotel developers Cecil Doherty and Liam Tourish at The Ebrington Hotel.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Work starts on £15m hotel plan at former military base

Billy Bingham with his model of the HMS Caroline beside the real thing

One-man shipbuilder and his HMS Caroline

A presentation during the Second World War to Bobby McAtamney, who was on HMS Hardy and was one of the 'heroes of Narvik'

Seven members of NI family who served during WWII could hold record

HMS Queen Elizabeth: How many have Covid on Navy flagship - and where is the Carrier Strike Group now? (Photo: PA)

HMS Queen Elizabeth: How many have Covid on Navy flagship - and where is the Car...

British PM Ramsay Macdonald, pictured, second from left

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Macdonald must choose between ‘the roles of the lion and t...

The Bismarck herself was sunk on May 27, 1941 either by damage inflicted by British torpedoes or after she was scuttled by her own crew

The sinking of the Bismarck, and how a plane based in Fermanagh was key

HMS Queen Elizabeth departs HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, for her maiden deployment to lead the UK Carrier Strike Group on a 28-week operational deployment travelling over 26,000 nautical miles from the Mediterranean to the Philippine Sea. Picture date: Saturday May 22, 2021.

Belfast helps build new HMS Queen Elizabeth

Handout image taken at Balmoral in 2018 and released on 14/04/21 of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh with their great grandchildren. Pictured (left to right) Prince George, Prince Louis being held by Queen Elizabeth II, Savannah Phillips (standing at rear), Princess Charlotte, the Duke of Edinburgh, Isla Phillips holding Lena Tindall, and Mia Tindall. Issue date: Wednesday April 14, 2021.

Prince Philip’s funeral service honours his love of life at sea

Prince Philip: all of the Duke of Edinburgh’s medals and decorations - and what they were awarded for (Photo by JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Prince Philip: all of the Duke of Edinburgh’s medals and decorations - and what ...

Outstanding British sailor of WWII owed huge debt to brave Ulster pilot

A WW2 postcard has arrived in the UK 77 years late - here’s what it said (Photo: Shutterstock)

A WW2 postcard has arrived in the UK 77 years late - here’s what it said

A Swordfish plane, which is the type Michael Torrens Spence had flown in the 1940 Fleet Air Arm raid

World War II air raid in Mediterranean in 1940 was courageous but it failed to s...

Danny Kinahan.

Danny Kinahan appointed first Veterans’ Commissioner for Northern Ireland

The TV presenter has since apologised for his comments (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s why SAS Who Dares Wins' Ant Middleton has ‘quit’ his Royal Navy role

Anne Donaghy, chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Council, with (from left) Deputy Lord Lieutenant Norman Walker, Air Marshall Sean Reynolds,the Mayor, Councillor Peter Johnston, Brigadier Chris Davies, Captain Chris Smith and the Deputy Mayor, Cllr Andrew Wilson, to welcome The Royal Navy's P2000 vessels to Carrickfergus marina as part of their summer deployment.

Mid and East Antrim secures Armed Forces Day 2021 celebration

HMS Caroline in Belfast

Funding crisis could see HMS Caroline ‘towed to Portsmouth’

Chief Petty Officer Keith Paddy Ross was originally from Co. Down. (Photo: PA Wire)

Tributes to ‘amazing’ Navy sailor and father-of-five from NI who died in motorwa...

Ferry passengers and the crew on both vessels were placed “in immediate danger," according to an official report (Photo: Shutterstock)

A passenger ferry nearly hit a nuclear submarine off the coast of Scotland - but...

Archer Class. Pic: Royal Navy

Navy patrol vessel to drop anchor in Carrickfergus

The model of ship which was involved in the near-miss

Nuclear submarine came within as little as 50 metres of Belfast ferry

How to explain World War Two to children - life for soldiers, and the Holocaust