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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a defense plan, in Berkshire, England, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

Cash-strapped British military embarks on radical new course

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

UK Royal Navy personnel inspect autonomous vehicles with sonar sensor that can detect and identify mines, on RFA Lyme Bay in territory of Gibraltar, on Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Kwiyeon Ha)

Britain’s navy prepares to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz while waiting for a peace deal

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon at the HM Naval Base, in Portsmouth Harbour, in Hampshire, England, Tuesday March 3, 2026, ahead of being deployed to protect British military personnel in Cyprus. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

What happened to Britain’s Royal Navy? Mideast conflict exposes London’s inability to deploy ships

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Capt. 1st Rank Stanislav Varik the commander of the Russian navy destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov, gestures as he speaks to reporters on board his ship in eastern Mediterranean on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Russian warships equipped with an array of long-range missiles cruise off Syria's coast to back the air campaign in Syria and project Moscow's naval power in the Mediterranean. (AP Photo/Vladimir Isachenkov)

NATO-controlled U.K. warship tracks Russian destroyer in British waters

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sailors disembark Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Spey docked at Tanjung Priok Port during a port visit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) **FILE**

Former British defense secretary calls Royal Navy’s submarine name change ‘woke nonsense’

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A view of the Britain's Royal Navy patrol ship OPV &quot;Trent&quot; in the Black Sea, Wednesday, July 7, 2021 during Sea Breeze 2021 maneuvers. Ukraine and NATO have conducted Black Sea drills involving dozens of warships in a two-week show of their strong defense ties and capability following a confrontation between Russia's military forces and a British destroyer off Crimea last month. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Royal Navy to mount DragonFire lasers on warships in 2027, 5 years earlier than expected

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

People gather ahead of the Coronation of Britain's King Charles III in London, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool via AP)

Live updates | King Charles III’s coronation

By SYLVIA HUI and BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Mourners including, front row from left, Kate Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Prince Edward, Viscount Severn, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, the Countess of Wessex, the Duchess of Cornwall during the funeral of Prince Philip, at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Saturday April 17, 2021. Prince Philip died April 9 at the age of 99 after 73 years of marriage to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Back row, from left, the Earl of Snowdon, Peter Phillips, Mike Tindall, Zara Tindall, Jack Brooksbank, Princess Eugenie, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Princess Beatrice. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP)

Funeral to praise Philip’s ‘courage’ and support for queen

By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Royal Navy jet crashes in England after pilots safely eject

Associated Press

British navy says 3rd warship en route to Persian Gulf

Associated Press

In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 photo, a speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero which was seized in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Global stock markets were subdued Monday while the price of oil climbed as tensions in the Persian Gulf escalated after Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker on Friday. (Morteza Akhoondi/Mehr News Agency via AP)

UK offers ships naval escort after Iran oil tanker seizure

Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Tale of Two Navies’

By Thomas W. Schaaf Sr.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Shipmates, with one exception

The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: Bringing glory to U.S. Navy

By Vice Adm. Robert F. Dunn - The Washington Times

BOOKS: ‘Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812’

BOOKS: Naval history and an American hero