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• World’s largest slave graveyard uncovered on St Helena Island

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, December 12 (ANI): Archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest slave graveyards anywhere in the world on the tiny island of St Helena.According to a report in the Times, the bones of some 10,000 young Africans lie buried in the rocky valleys of this isolated British territory in the South Atlantic, ...
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• Royal Navy’s Record-breaking Drug-buster HMS Iron Duke Returning to Home

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  Royal Navy warship HMS Iron Duke, which made a record-breaking drugs seizure in the North Atlantic in September, will return to her Portsmouth home on December 14. The Type 23 frigate found 5.5 tonnes of pure cocaine with an estimated UK value of £240m in a converted fishing vessel off South America during a ...
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• End of an Era

  
  Jack Speak — Authority: 106
  So my time as SO3 Internet working within the Royal Navy Internet Team has finally drawn to an end.  What have I learnt?  Has it been productive and where has this holdover fitted into my long term career path? Well, I have been working as SO3 Internet since mid August and the time certainly has flown by.  I ...
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• Huang Tingxin

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Last Chinese officer to serve in the wartime Royal Navy, who joined the attack on the battleship Tirpitz
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• Labour Candidate Is Clueless

  
  Cynical Chatter From The Underworld — Authority: 121
  The Labour candidate for John Hutton’s seat in parliament, John Woodcock, has shown how fundamentally clueless he is about the New Labour record in Barrow-in-Furness. He has started a campaign targeting shipyard workers claiming that only Labour have made a commitment to a new generation of Trident subs being ...
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• Able Seaman Medical Assistant Kate Nesbitt…

  
  Belongum's Weblog — Authority: 106
  …was awarded the British Military Cross through her actions in providing medical aid to Lance Corporal John List during an ambush in Nawa – Central Helmund Province – Afghanistan.(Image received by email – source unknown)Kate is the only woman in the Royal Navy to have been awarded such an award.  I suspect ...
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• Newbee

  
  Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum — Authority: 167
  Hi all, Kevbrad, just joined ex jack dusty, and new to the industry.
  6 days ago

• Indian Navy warships set off for Oman

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Two Indian Navy warships Tuesday set off for Oman to take part in bilateral naval exercise beginning Dec 11, an official said.“Guided missile frigate INS Ganga and stealth frigate INS Talwar will be participating in the exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahar’,” Indian Navy spokesman Commander P.V.S. ...
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• Tribe apologises to Brit pensioner for having his relative for dinner

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Melbourne, December 08 (ANI): A tribe of cannibals has apologized to a 65-year-old British pensioner for killing and eating his great-great grandfather, 170 years ago.The community living in Erromango, a small Pacific island, now part of Vanuatu, performed a ceremony asking forgiveness from Charles Milner-Williams, ...
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• Four Guardia Civil arrested in Gibraltar harbour following chase incident

  
  A Gibo's Tale — Authority: 106
  According to media reports tonight, four Spanish Guardia Civil officers were detained in Gibraltar earlier today, following an incident.Gibraltars Panorama is reporting that a Guardia Civil launch was chasing a Spanish fast boat in waters near Gibraltar. The pursuit continued into Gibraltar harbour and ended with both ...
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• Rear Admiral Sam Salt

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 476
  Rear-Admiral Sam Salt, who died on December 3 aged 69, commanded the Type 42 guided-missile destroyer Sheffiel d , the first British warship to be sunk by enemy action after the Second World War.   The Sheffield was one of three ships stationed on picket duty to protect the aircraft carriers Hermes and ...
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• Victoria Cross: R. St. V. Sherbrooke

  
  The Old Coot — Authority: 115
  ROBERT ST VINCENT SHERBROOKE, DSO Captain, Royal Navy; commanding HMS Onslow Born: 8 January 1901, Oxton, Newark, Nottinghamshire Died: 13 June 1972, Oxton, Newark, Nottinghamshire Citation: Captain Sherbrooke, in H.M.S. Onslow, was the Senior Officer in command of the destroyers escorting an important convoy ...
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• United Kingdom: “This isn’t the Britain we fought for” say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WW2

  
  Romanian National Vanguard News Agency — Authority: 133
  Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand. Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her. As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her ...
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• Britains New £1Bn Super-Ship .... But The Missiles Do Not Work

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  (Click Image to Enlarge) Dwarfing the harbours buildings, the Royal Navys newest warship entered her home port of Portsmouth for the first time this week HMS Whoops! Its Britains New £1bn Super-Ship, With iPod Stations And Luxury Quarters. One Problem... The State-Of-The-Art Missiles Dont Work -- The Daily ...
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• Struggle for the Middle Sea

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 700
  I have a review of Vincent OHaras Struggle for the Middle Sea up at ID.
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• Royal Navys New Type 45 Destroyers Are "Unarmed"

  
  The Yankee Sailor — Authority: 140
  The British Navys £1bn+ Destroyers Set To Remain Unarmed For Years -- The Register Ex-British miracle missiles in new test FAIL. The "Sea Viper" missile system for the Royal Navys new Type 45 destroyers looks set to suffer further setbacks following a reported failure during test firings. The weapons are ...
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• Royal Navys New Type 45 Destroyers Are "Unarmed"

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  The British Navys £1bn+ Destroyers Set To Remain Unarmed For Years -- The Register Ex-British miracle missiles in new test FAIL. The "Sea Viper" missile system for the Royal Navys new Type 45 destroyers looks set to suffer further setbacks following a reported failure during test firings. The weapons are ...
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• HMS Dauntless Handed Over to the Ministry Of Defence

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  HMS Dauntless – the second of six new air defense warships – has been handed over to the Ministry Of Defence at a ceremony in Portsmouth. HMS Dauntless was launched from BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard in Glasgow on 23 January 2007. After extensive sea trials she made her first entry into her home port of ...
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• Paymaster R.N. and Reverend, John Billingham Swann

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 463
  John Billingham Swann (1828-1904) was a Passed Clerk in Vesuvius from the 29th of June, 1853, until appointed Assistant Paymaster in Diamond on the 9th of February, 1855, so would have messed with Richard Ramsay Armstrong and they would have known one another well.Swann had two careers: after retiring from the Navy as ...
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• Loch Striven ship layups: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Update 08.00 3rd December: An issue which looks as if it may be on the horizon is the UK Government selling off more of the remaining Trust Ports. The national debt already at unprecedented - unimagined - levels. The shadow of a potential Dubai collapse (the  now state-owned RBS was, of course, a major lender) [...]
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