HMS Southampton and RFA Grey Rover until recently posted in the Falkland Islands were involved in the seizure in the Caribbean of a cargo ship with three and half tons of cocaine with a street ...

At the end of his visit, the author presented Southampton's CO, Commander Richard Morris, with a section of rope from the 18th-Century HMS Invincible which was lost in the eastern Solent in 1758 ...

The wreck of the Southampton dates from a conflict long since forgotten by many, the War of 1812, when America and the British Empire were at war over Atlantic trade routes. In 1812 the HMS ...

The loss of HMS Sheffield and Coventry demonstrated, this latter role denied the ships supporting fire from accompanying warships and highlighted their vulnerability. In the 1960s the Royal Navy was ...

Southampton was visited by HMS Tireless in 2012 – a Devon-based nuclear submarine – and HMS Astute in 2011, with the berth located at Dock Gate 4. In the event of a radiation emergency in the ...