Chatham Dockyard was once at the forefront of ship building, throughout its history it provided over 500 ships for the Royal Navy and each of those ships needed a lot of rope. An 18th century ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope, which often broke and put ... Brown Lenox made all the Royal Navy's anchor chains until 1916, as well as chain for great liners such ...

The nine-minute operation took place during darkness BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said British forces descended on to the vessel by rope from four Royal Navy helicopters after nightfall.

The bottle was found inside the Corsewall Lighthouse at the most northerly point of the Rhins of Galloway. The "once in a ...

Teams from the UK, US, Chile, Mexico and Colombia used the Royal Navy's ice patrol ship for practicing ... and the boarding personnel descends by rope onto the deck of the ship The Unitas exercise ...

The ability to sail faster and more efficiently can also be safer and more satisfying. Peter K Poland shares his tips to ...

John, who served in the Royal Navy, "wasn’t a bit concerned" when ... "I only remember climbing down the rope nets into our landing craft. "I have no recollection of being on Gold Beach until ...

begin military training at Naval Military School and the royal has truly thrown herself into the new challenge. On Thursday, ...

Merchant Navy ships escorted by Royal Navy cruisers and destroyers as ... very firmly and anyone going aft on deck had to fix a rope around the body with a hook on to the lifeline and gradually ...

Jack Answer: Sailors were young men, sometimes even young boys, impressed into the Roman navy from any and all the ... to the underside of a suspending rope. The big problem with this is that ...

A ventriloquist's dummy and a skipping rope are among 80 objects featured ... the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the National Army Museum, the Royal Air Force Museum and the Imperial War ...

Investigations by the Royal Malaysian Navy found that KD Pendekar - a fast attack craft - had strayed away from its planned ...