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    Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport)...
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    in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth). It is the navy's headquarters in Scotland and is best known...
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    Unconditional Surrender is a series of computer-generated statues by Seward Johnson that resemble an iconic 1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J...
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    royal service, decommissioned and relocated to Leith as a museum ship. HMNB Portsmouth is an operational Royal Navy base and is home to two-thirds of the...
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    operates three main bases where commissioned ships are based: HMNB Portsmouth, HMNB Devonport and HMNB Clyde. A number of commissioned vessels, belonging to the...
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    Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is...
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    new home base of HMNB Portsmouth in November 2019. The ship was formally commissioned into the Royal Navy at a ceremony in Portsmouth on 10 December 2019...
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  • Navy located in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard section of HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The museum is part of the National Museum...
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    Reserve. Portsmouth establishments HMNB Clyde RNAS Culdrose RNAS Yeovilton BRNC HMS Raleigh Northwood HQ Rosyth Dockyard HMS Vulcan HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth...
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    access to the Solent. It is best known as the home of the Royal Navy, HMNB Portsmouth. Because of its strategic location on the south coast of England, protected...
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    helicopters and large troop transports such as Chinooks. She is based at HMNB Portsmouth. Queen Elizabeth will deploy as the central part of a UK Carrier Strike...
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  • rear admiral based HMNB Portsmouth who commanded the navy's First Flotilla. First Flotilla, HMNB Portsmouth 1st Frigate Squadron, HMNB Devonport with Type...
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    rear admiral based HMNB Portsmouth who commanded the navy's First Flotilla. First Flotilla, HMNB Portsmouth 1st Frigate Squadron, HMNB Devonport with Type...
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    autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. Patrick Blackett entered HMNB Portsmouth for the first time on 27 July 2022, ahead of her christening ceremony...
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    build process are A&P Tyne, Appledore Shipbuilders, Cammell Laird and HMNB Portsmouth. "POWERING THE QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS" (PDF). Rolls-Royce...
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    HMS Nelson (shore establishment) (category Portsmouth)
    of the Royal Navy on Queen Street in Portsmouth, England. It provides the naval barracks to support HMNB Portsmouth and is also home to the Royal Marines...
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    days later, a naval task force headed by Invincible and Hermes left HMNB Portsmouth bound for the South Atlantic. On 20 April, the UK government formally...
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    laid up at HMNB Portsmouth, on 23 June 1976. In February 1977 she was put up for sale by the Board of Trade. She was towed out of Portsmouth for the breakers...
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    the command of Commander Andy Gurr, was dry-docked for ten months at HMNB Portsmouth. Various systems were upgraded including the anti-submarine warfare...
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  • dredged out from Portsmouth Harbour is used to expand the size of Whale Isle by 125%, which is the start of the construction of HMNB Portsmouth. A viaduct is...
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    parade. On 21 February 2011, Manchester sailed into her home port of HMNB Portsmouth where she was decommissioned on 24 February 2011. The Duke of Lancaster's...
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    the defence and supply infrastructure of His Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth. As such over the years extensive fortifications were created. Gosport...
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    at HMNB Portsmouth on 22 July at the end of active service. By then the oldest operational RN warship, she was decommissioned at HMNB Portsmouth on 28...
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    Promoted to commodore on 30 August 2011, Radakin became commander of HMNB Portsmouth in October 2011. He was appointed Director of Force Development at...
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    13 April 2018, following a commissioning ceremony at her homeport HMNB Portsmouth. In January 2020 she replaced HMS Clyde as the Falkland Islands patrol...
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    diver training and support vessels are assigned to HMNB Portsmouth (three units), HMNB Devonport, HMNB Clyde and to the Royal Navy's Gibraltar Squadron...
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    HMS Clyde (P257) (category Ships built in Portsmouth)
    River-class ships. Clyde was decommissioned on the 20 December 2019 at HMNB Portsmouth and was returned to her owners at BAE Systems Maritime - Naval Ships...
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    announced that from 1 April 2014 the ship's homeport would change from HMNB Portsmouth to HMNB Devonport, the location of the Hydrography and Meteorology Centre...
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    St Ann's Church is an Anglican chapel within His Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth. It is regarded as the spiritual home of the Royal Navy, and contains...
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  • for Gloucester prior to her decommissioning. Gloucester returned to HMNB Portsmouth for the final time on 24 May 2011 and was decommissioned on 30 June...
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