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Royal Navy Sailors Help Dig Out World's Most Remote Post Office In Antarctica After Heavy Snowfall
Engineers say they used traditional naval ship damage control methods to stabilise the structure, such as wooden stakes and blocks.
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Marking Rare Transit By Non-US Vessel, UK Warship Passes Through Taiwan Strait
The Royal Navy said a British warship was sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a rare voyage by a non-US military vessel through the sensitive waterway that is likely to strain ties with Beijing.
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Russia Fires Warning Shots At British Ship In Black Sea, UK Denies It
The Ministry of Defence in London on Wednesday denied a Russian government claim that warning shots were fired against a British Royal Navy ship in the Black Sea.
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UK Plans To Send European-Led Gulf Force After Iran Seizes Its Tanker
Britain on Monday said it was planning a European-led protection force for shipping in the Gulf after Iranian authorities seized a British-flagged tanker in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the region.
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Indonesia Says Not To Blame For Missing World War II Shipwrecks
Indonesia refused to take the blame on Thursday for the disappearance of at least six British and Dutch World War II shipwrecks -- considered war graves -- that investigators believe could have been salvaged for scrap.
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Indian Navy's Vessel to Compete in Annual Race in Europe
Indian Navy's sail training ship INS Tarangini will participate in an annual race in European waters and dock at a UK port where its crew will share professional experience with their British counterparts.
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron Offers Warship, Helicopters to Aid Migrant Rescues
Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that Britain would offer to deploy military ships and helicopters to the Mediterranean to help stem a deadly tide of refugees trying to reach Europe by sea.
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Replica 18th-century frigate due for maiden France voyage
A life-size replica of the Hermione, the French navy frigate that shipped General Lafayette to America to rally rebels fighting British troops in the US war of independence, will undertake its maiden voyage on Sunday, organisers said.
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Ships race to investigate signals in missing Malaysia Airlines jet search
A British navy ship with sophisticated sound-locating equipment arrived on Monday in a patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether underwater sounds picked up by a Chinese ship crew using a hand-held device came from the missing Malaysia Airlines black boxes.
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US ship crew arrest: UK seeks consular access to six British nationals
The Tamil Nadu police have arrested 35 crew members of an American ship detained on Saturday for carrying arms and ammunition.
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Royal Navy Sailors Help Dig Out World's Most Remote Post Office In Antarctica After Heavy Snowfall
Engineers say they used traditional naval ship damage control methods to stabilise the structure, such as wooden stakes and blocks.
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Marking Rare Transit By Non-US Vessel, UK Warship Passes Through Taiwan Strait
The Royal Navy said a British warship was sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, a rare voyage by a non-US military vessel through the sensitive waterway that is likely to strain ties with Beijing.
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Russia Fires Warning Shots At British Ship In Black Sea, UK Denies It
The Ministry of Defence in London on Wednesday denied a Russian government claim that warning shots were fired against a British Royal Navy ship in the Black Sea.
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UK Plans To Send European-Led Gulf Force After Iran Seizes Its Tanker
Britain on Monday said it was planning a European-led protection force for shipping in the Gulf after Iranian authorities seized a British-flagged tanker in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the region.
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Indonesia Says Not To Blame For Missing World War II Shipwrecks
Indonesia refused to take the blame on Thursday for the disappearance of at least six British and Dutch World War II shipwrecks -- considered war graves -- that investigators believe could have been salvaged for scrap.
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Indian Navy's Vessel to Compete in Annual Race in Europe
Indian Navy's sail training ship INS Tarangini will participate in an annual race in European waters and dock at a UK port where its crew will share professional experience with their British counterparts.
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron Offers Warship, Helicopters to Aid Migrant Rescues
Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that Britain would offer to deploy military ships and helicopters to the Mediterranean to help stem a deadly tide of refugees trying to reach Europe by sea.
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Replica 18th-century frigate due for maiden France voyage
A life-size replica of the Hermione, the French navy frigate that shipped General Lafayette to America to rally rebels fighting British troops in the US war of independence, will undertake its maiden voyage on Sunday, organisers said.
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Ships race to investigate signals in missing Malaysia Airlines jet search
A British navy ship with sophisticated sound-locating equipment arrived on Monday in a patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether underwater sounds picked up by a Chinese ship crew using a hand-held device came from the missing Malaysia Airlines black boxes.
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US ship crew arrest: UK seeks consular access to six British nationals
The Tamil Nadu police have arrested 35 crew members of an American ship detained on Saturday for carrying arms and ammunition.
