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Cayman Islands Regiment Lieutenant returns from time at sea with Royal Navy
Lieutenant Theodore Kelly from the Cayman Islands Regiment has spent the last three weeks embarked with the Royal Navy in HMS Medway, which is part of the UK’s Caribbean Task Group. He was deployed to the Task Group to share…
RFA Mounts Bay in Caribbean drugs bust
By George Allison from UK Defence Journal RFA Mounts Bay recovered 100kg of Cocaine from Hessian sacks dumped in the Caribbean as drug-runners dumped their cargo and fled from authorities, say the Royal Navy. The British vessel responded to a…
Caribbean Rum resurgence: ‘Hellish liquor’ to premium product
By Gemma Handy From BBC Long the poison of brutish pirates and drunken sailors, rum was traditionally a cheap booze imbibed far less for its flavour than its heady effect. Today lust for the liquor has never been so potent,…
Bermuda: Soldiers take part in nautical training in Cayman Islands
From Bernews Two Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers have started an intensive nautical skills course in the Cayman Islands run by the Royal Navy. Private Donavin Trott-Burchall and Private Jessica Pimental, both members of the RBR Boat Troop, will spend three…
HMS Queen Elizabeth
Britain’s newest aircraft carrier has set sail on its first mission with helicopters — here are all the pictures By Kieran Corcoran From Business Insider The Royal Navy’s largest-ever warship is taking another step towards deploying on operations, and is…
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RFA Wave Knight to visit Grand Cayman
The Naval Support Ship RFA WAVE KNIGHT will arrive in Grand Cayman on 2 February for a 4 day visit during her deployment to the region on Atlantic Patrol Tasking North (APT(N)). This is a year round commitment to the…
HMS Mersey visit to Grand Cayman
From Royal Navy Mersey arrived in George Town, Grand Cayman for a second attempt at visiting the UK Overseas Territory. With high winds and rough seas cancelling her earlier port call, Mersey returned in better weather and took full advantage…
Mersey comes to Cayman Islands
HMS Mersey will visit George Town, Grand Cayman in February as part of her continued efforts to support UK Overseas Territories in the Caribbean. HMS Mersey is one of the Royal Navy’s four River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels. With a…
Sister ships meet in the Caribbean
From Royal Navy Two Plymouth based Type 23 frigates have met up in the Caribbean while deployed on operations. HMS Argyll and HMS Portland met off the coast of Puerto Rico to transfer essential stores and took the opportunity to…
Queen names new warship amid defense budget uncertainty
By Reuters From Manilla Bulletin Rosyth, Scotland – Queen Elizabeth officially named the biggest warship Britain has ever built on Friday amid uncertainty over Scotland’s coming independence referendum and future British defense spending. A crowd of 4,000 gathered in this…
