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Royal Navy landing ship to support Scottish ferry crisis. In an extraordinary response to the ongoing issues with Scotland’s CalMac ferry fleet, the Ministry of Defence has announced that the Royal Navy’s HMS Bulwark will be temporarily repurposed for ferry duties.

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UK to order third carrier due to Russian threat. A leaked consultation document appears to suggest that the Royal Navy will now order a third Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier in response to a resurgent Russia. Sources in the MoD stress that the new ship, HMS Princess Diana, will incorporate lessons learned in the design and build stages of the first two vessels of the class.

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On this day in 1982, Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward, who was in Gibraltar in HMS Antrim, given orders under Operation CORPORATE. At 2130 he was told that Argentina had invaded the Falklands. The next day he sailed South In HMS Glamorgan with 10 ships to begin the formation of the Task Force.