The UK Royal Navy (RN) frigate force has dropped to seven ships following the retirement of the forward-deployed Type 23 ...

Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans, captained by Commander Tom Sharpe RN 2010-2012. Type 23s specialise in anti-submarine warfare - Lee Blease/Royal Navy Today we’re going to discuss fighting Russian ...

The Royal Navy’s longest-serving Type 23 frigate which has a close association with Lancaster has been retired from the fleet ...

The Type 26 frigate programme, once hailed as a beacon of British naval innovation, has stumbled over a series of obstacles. These are not isolated incidents, but indications of wider failure which ...

Sailors serving aboard a Royal Navy frigate which has been retired were left emotional by the end of the warship’s career.

Babcock has been awarded the contract to manage the Type 23 class frigate Refit Support Group, allowing the company to take end-to-end responsibility for vessel upkeep and regeneration in preparation ...

The UK MoD has cancelled earlier plans to fit an LDEW demonstrator to a Type 23 frigate. (Thales) The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has dropped plans to trial a laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) ...

HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 frigate which has primarily been deployed in the Middle East, will be taken out of service and decommissioned. She will not return to the UK and will spend her final moments ...

Royal Marines took aim at the engine of a boat suspected of drug smuggling while flying in HMS Lancaster’s Wildcat helicopter over the Gulf of Oman. £35 million of drugs were subsequently seized.

The Maritime Electronic Warfare System Integrated Capability (MEWSIC) will be integrated onto Type 26 and Type 31 frigates, Type 45 destroyers, and the two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers.