A proud Commander has handed the reigns of a new Royal Navy frigate to a successor - after being with her since the beginning ...

Construction work is continuing on the first of the new Type 31 frigates HMS Venturer. It has been 18 months since her keel was laid, and now the vessel is beginning to resemble a warship.

But the Venturer Hall is big enough to allow two frigates to be built side by side. Starting next year, the 6,000-ton military ship will be joined by its sister HMS Active for the, building process.

Still to come in the five-ship class are HMS Bulldog and finally Campbeltown. Categories: Politics, International. Tags: Frigate Type 31, HMS Active, HMS Formidable, HMS Venturer, Royal Navy.

A major shipbuilding program for the Royal Navy is now underway, with the first steel being cut for HMS Venturer, the lead ship of the Type 31 Inspiration class frigates, which will replace the ...

As the Royal Navy’s newest warship slid into the River Forth last month, there will have been more than a few sighs of relief ...

HMS Venturer is "a powerful symbol of UK naval ambition and sovereign capability", said former Second Sea Lord Sir Nick Hine. ByCiaran McGrath, Senior News Reporter 19:00, Tue, May 27, 2025 ...

HMS Venturer emerged from the assembly hall named after her at the end of last month, and was carefully inched out on a gigantic low-loader, and then on to a special partly-submersible barge. The ...

Nine sailors have made history by joining HMS Venturer, the lead vessel of five Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates. The new designs will be deployed around the globe by the end of the decade.

They got to meet HMS Venturer and admire it up close. This will be the Navy's first unit in the new Type 31 frigate class, and these nine enthusiastic seamen are part of its future 100-people crew.

German U-Boat U-864 departed Bergen, Norway, carrying vital military technology intended to bolster Japan's faltering war effort—blueprints and parts for Jumo 004 turbojets, V-2 missile components, ...

It comes 16 months after the build of HMS Venturer, the Navy's first Type 31 frigate - began. The entire five-strong Type 31 fleet is expected to be delivered by the end of 2028 and to enter ...