The Olympic Flame is due to arrive at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose tonight from where it will be carried in a Sea King helicopter to the start of the UK Torch Relay.

It may be a precious coincidence, but Royal Navy engineer Brian Diamond, who serves on board his namesake ship HMS Diamond, has been presented with a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

HMS Westminster has thwarted the activities of three pirate groups in a fortnight, destroying their boats and means of further action.

One of the Royal Navy's most advanced warships, HMS Daring, has made an official stop in Saudi Arabia to reinforce the country's strong relationship with the UK.

A wounded Royal Navy medic who saved the lives of four colleagues after they were seriously injured in Afghanistan by a grenade attack in 2011 received a Military Cross this week from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

Ahead of the arrival of the Olympic Flame on Friday, One Show presenter Alex Jones and Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell paid a visit to Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Cornwall yesterday and received a very challenging welcome.

A rapturous welcome greeted the ship's company of Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose on Friday, 11 May, on their return to Plymouth from a six-and-a-half-month deployment to the South Atlantic.

A Search and Rescue crew from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall conducted a daring rescue of an injured fisherman earlier this week.

HMS St Albans has spent five days in Iceland to pay her respects to those mariners who took part in the convoys to the Soviet Union when sailors braved air and U-boat attack to deliver crucial aid 70 years ago.

More than 750 Royal Marines and supporting units, together with three warships and Sea King and Chinook helicopters, have waged war in and around Galloway Forest Park in a week-long exercise to prepare 45 Commando for front line duties.

In April, Royal Navy pilots James Birchall and André Milne completed what has been described as 'the toughest foot-race on Earth' - the gruelling Marathon des Sables race across the Sahara Desert.

HMS Westminster and a Trafalgar Class submarine led the Royal Navy's involvement in Exercise Arabian Shark, a test of coalition navies to deal with submarines in the Gulf of Oman.

The Royal Navy's largest ship, HMS Ocean, sailed up the River Thames today to take part in this week's Olympic Games security event.

HMS Montrose has spent six days in New Orleans helping Americans begin bicentennial commemorations of the War of 1812.

HMS Dauntless impressed the members of other navies during a multinational exercise in the Atlantic last week to practise improving security at sea.

HMS Diamond has proved her fighting mettle by testing her missile system for the first time off the Outer Hebrides.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrated yesterday the achievements of British Service personnel who recreated the famous Scott-Amundsen race to the South Pole.

Army Apache helicopters, launched from HMS Illustrious off the Scottish coast, have fired tank-busting Hellfire missiles in the UK for the first time, during one of the biggest military exercises of the year.

HMS Gannet's duty Search and Rescue Sea King went to the aid of a farmer trapped beneath an overturned tractor last week.

HMS Dragon, the fourth of the Royal Navy's new powerful Type 45 destroyers, was formally commissioned into the fleet on Friday.