Undated family handout file photo issued by Hampshire Constabulary of Simon Parkes, from Bristol. A fresh set of searches are being carried out by police in Gibraltar as part of an investigation into the disappearance of Royal Navy sailor Simon Parkes following a "new line of enquiry". Mr Parkes, from Bristol, was last seen in December 1986 when the ship he was serving on, HMS Illustrious, was docked in the territory. Issue date: Wednesday January 17, 2024.

An inquest is being held for Royal Navy sailor Simon Parkes, who vanished almost forty years ago - but his mother hopes it will reveal the truth.

Mother of Navy sailor missing since 1986 appeals for witnesses to come forward

Lt Cdr Martin 'Florry' Ford remembers seeing families trapped on their roofs as one of the first on the scene.

Navy veteran remembers being told to 'save who you can' during Boscastle Floods

The book, which is filled with secret signals, is lined with lead so it would sink if the ship it was travelling on was attacked by the enemy.

Rare First World War naval signal book found in charity bookshop

Two companies have been fined almost a million pounds following the incident.

Scaffolder seriously injured after falling through hole on Navy warship

Jack Glover served as a message decoder aboard HMS Royalist during the Second World War. 

World War Two veteran celebrates 100th birthday

There’s no pilot controlling the drone which was told where the Royal Navy ship was and automatically landed.

The pilotless aircraft that's just landed on a ship off the Cornish coast

Two Royal Navy Observers from RNAS Culdrose are hoping to fly high in the music charts with a new charity Christmas single.

Royal Navy servicemen release Christmas single

The sub is set to dive deeper than any vessel currently in the submarine fleet.

Plymouth firm to build Royal Navy's first unmanned submarine

The theft is understood to have involved fuel being used for generators being used to power HMS Bulwark.

£250,000 of diesel reportedly stolen at HMNB Devonport

Two jets will take off from RNAS Culdrose and fly up to Plymouth, before turning around and flying clockwise around Cornwall.

Final farewell to Royal Navy Hawk jets as they make last flight 

The kayaker was rescued by a Royal Navy helicopter crew on a training exercise.

Royal Navy rescue capsized kayaker off Cornwall coast

In an operation lasting almost 10 hours, the team found 663kg of heroin, 87kg of methamphetamine and 291kg of hashish and marijuana on board a small vessel.

Royal Navy sailors on HMS Montrose in £15 million drugs bust

Experts believe the artefacts prove Plymouth’s status as an epicentre of global trade.

Major dig in Plymouth after 17th century relics found in Navy yard

60 crew members returned home from the Far East, after a seven-month deployment with the 820 Naval Air Squadron.

Royal Navy crew reunite with families ahead of Christmas

All five crewmen on board the Bugaled Breizh died after the trawler sank suddenly off the Lizard Peninsula in 2004.

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