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Awards with His Majesty The King’s image in use from the beginning of October. The new designs are presented on almost 50 different awards. Images bear the inscription Charles the Third, by the Grace of God, King, Defender of the Faith. The images – known as effigies – will be used for almost 50 awards, including The King’s Gallantry Medal, the Royal Red Cross and a range of long service awards. The new images will replace previous designs which featured

Thousands more veterans will receive HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards by the end of the year thanks to a £3 million injection to expand the roll-out to veterans who left service before 2018. Veterans’ Minister Johnny Mercer has visited a MOD printing facility at HMS Sultan in Gosport Government has invested £3m to scale up production of HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards to 50,000 cards a month Thousands of veterans will be able to apply for an ID card this

THE red carpet was rolled out in true Hollywood style at the Glasgow Hilton Hotel last weekend for the annual Submarine Service Awards, known colloquially as ‘The Submarine Oscars.’ Serving and retired Submariners, their families, friends, and affiliates all dressed up in their best bib and tucker for an evening of glitz and glamour to celebrate the very best in the service. The ballroom was at maximum capacity as 350 people enjoyed the 2023 Submarine Awards ceremony, hosted by Commodore

Designed and built by our Submarines apprentices, the ‘People. Product. Pride: 150 years of Barrow Shipyard’ heritage sculpture is now on permanent display at Vickerstown Park in Barrow. The statue depicts Barrow’s shipbuilding heritage through three key elements; the men and women who have worked in the shipyard, the community which the business has served for more than a century and a half, and our long-term partners, the Royal Navy. Apprentice Designer Lewis Phillips said: “The 150th anniversary is a

The Royal Navy is set to receive £4billion from the Government to build the “world’s most advanced” attack submarines. Three UK companies have won a £3.95billion contract to build a new generation of submarines for the Navy, as part of the country’s AUKUS programme with Australia and the United States. BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Babcock will develop the “hunter-killer” submarine programme. Grant Shapps, defence minister, said the vessels would be “the largest, most advanced and most powerful attack submarines in

The Submarine Family thanked some our wonderful supporters last week by hosting them at the RM band tour in Leicester and Liverpool. Kathryn Nye attended the Leicester show after donating money after her father, a retired submariner sadly passed away. WO2 Alyn Williams and Brian Wood from the Merseyside branch of the Submariners Association for their continued support to TSF. https://youtu.be/dYQRPnE-E3Qhttps://youtu.be/tw-oePciVJE