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06/06/2026

06/06/2026

Branch members this morning joined Conwy RBL and civic leaders at the Morfa to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the DDay landings and to honour those from the local community who made the ultimate sacrifice.

06/06/2026

82 years on from the Normandy landings, we reflect on the thousands of British, Commonwealth and Allied forces who lost their lives for the liberation of Western Europe.

We will remember them.

06/06/2026

Connecting with the community 🤍

On Tuesday 2 June , Corinne Day, our Community Engagement Officer, attended the Volunteering Recruitment Event organised by Portsmouth Hive Volunteer Centre at the Fratton Bridge Centre.

It was a great opportunity to meet members of the local community and share more about the work of The RNBT, including the support we provide to Royal Navy Ratings and Royal Marines Other Ranks, both serving and former-serving, and their loved ones.

Corinne also spoke with attendees about volunteering opportunities at Admiral Jellicoe House, our Care Home in Portsmouth, where volunteers play an important role in helping create a warm, welcoming, and supportive environment for Residents.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by for a chat, and to Portsmouth Hive Volunteer Centre for hosting such a valuable event.

Interested in volunteering with The RNBT? We'd love to hear from you.
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Serve a day, supported for life. 🩵⚓

06/06/2026

Today we remember the men and women involved in the great crusade and the largest amphibious operation in history.

Crew of HMS Dragon took time during operations in the Arabian Sea to pay a traditional flight deck tribute to all those involved in and Operation Neptune.

05/06/2026

Amongst the Royal Navy ships that took part in D-Day, 82 years ago tomorrow, was minesweeper HMS Llandudno; paid for by the residents of Llandudno during the 1941 ‘Warship Week’.
Warship Weeks were National Savings campaigns with communities adopting a Royal Navy warship. The target for cities was to raise enough money to adopt battleships and aircraft carriers and towns and villages would focus on cruisers and destroyers. Once the target money was raised the community would adopt the ship and its crew. With the population of wartime Llandudno swelled by civil servants from the Inland Revenue, the target was set at £137, 000 to purchase a minesweeper. The money was raised through dances, performances, collections and a huge parade involving 100 sailors, personnel from the Royal Artillery and Auxiliary Territorial Services, the Home Guard and many others. Llandudno easily surpassed its target and raised £222 000, 1 shilling and 9 pence (equivalent to £6.5 million today). Sadly H.M.S. Llandudno never visited the town from which she took her name.
On D-Day, H.M.S. Llandudno was under the command of Lieutenant Commander Frank Darnborough and sailed within the 15th Minesweeper Flotilla. She sailed from the Port of Dover, without navigation lights, along with H.M.S.s Fraserburgh, Ardrossan, Bootle, Lyme Regis, Worthing, Fort York and Dunbar. Their role was to sweep channel ‘No. 10’ to Sword Beach. H.M.S. Llandudno was at the eastern end of all the channels and was the closest to the German naval base at Le Havre.
Bill Sharples, of Pattingham, Staffordshire was a signaller on HMS Llandudno. He recalled that she was “almost blown out of the water” when the nearby HMS Ramillies and Ajax opened fire. Later he and his shipmates had the grim task of recovering identity tags from the floating bodies of soldiers killed in the D-Day landings.
H.M.S. Llandudno was sold to the Rorvik Syndicate on May 8th, 1947 for conversion to the merchant ship ‘Rorvik’ and was scrapped in 1952.
Image of HMS Llandudno: IWM (FL 14686)

04/06/2026

Holyhead Marine is delighted to announce that we have been awarded the contract by Peterhead Port Authority to design and build a new 16-metre Pilot Boat for service in the Port of Peterhead.

This award represents another significant milestone for our team and reflects the confidence placed in Holyhead Marine's expertise in delivering high-performance, purpose-built commercial vessels.

The new pilot boat will be designed by Camarc Design, featuring their unique wing ballast system and a resiliently mounted wheelhouse, we are confident that the vessel will be a valuable asset to support the demanding operational requirements of Peterhead Port.

We would like to thank Peterhead Port Authority for the opportunity and look forward to working closely with them throughout the project.

Construction will commence shortly and we look forward to sharing updates as the vessel takes shape.

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon has joined the French Navy carrier strike group centred on the aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle in the Arabian Sea, marking the latest phase of the Type 45 destroyer’s deployment east of Suez. Dragon made a brief logistics stop in Duqm, Oman, in late May before...