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A Royal Navy disaster relief ship will drop anchor in Bermuda on Sunday to take on stores, it was revealed yesterday. RFA Argus, part of the RN’s Merchant Navy support fleet, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, will resupply on Sunday before it steams to the ...

Front Street has been visited this week by a Royal Navy ice patrol ship. The HMS Protector, a 292ft vessel, usually patrols the Antarctic where it conducts surveys and assists with efforts to enforce environmental guidelines. According to the Royal N...

The little-known story of Bermuda’s expulsion of German nationals at the outbreak of the Second World War has been revealed by a history group. The war — which started 80 years ago today — led to the British authorities ordering Germans to leave the ...

The lives of those lost at sea were remembered in a ceremony off the coast of the island. The Guild of the Holy Compassion held its annual ceremony last weekend on board the pilot boat St David, casting wreaths into the waters of Five Fathom Hole. Am...

Today marks 75 years since United States forces towed a captured German sub, U-505, into Bermuda waters under a cloak of secrecy. The U-boat was brought into the Great Sound with 57 prisoners, as well as its Enigma code encryption machines and code b...

A massive logistics ship has been loaded with Royal Bermuda Regiment trucks and equipment headed for a major disaster relief exercise in the Caribbean. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Mounts Bay will transport the RBR gear to the Dominican Republic an...

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman ...

The heroic performance of soldiers from Australia and New Zealand in the ill-fated First World War Gallipoli campaign was marked at the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s Warwick Camp yesterday. Citizens of both countries and Bermuda residents joined together ...

A prison officer convicted of an attempt to smuggle a mobile phone to an inmate has lost an appeal in the Supreme Court. Kadeem Abraham admitted that he had accepted an item to take to an inmate, but claimed he only took it so he could examine it. Ma...

Changes in the administration of payments to families of elderly war veterans were defended yesterday by the Ministry of Finance. Officials said a new system for the payments, which included processing of claims overseas, was introduced last year to ...

Christmas started early at a nursing home yesterday as volunteers from a professional services firm delivered hampers of food and gifts to four resident war veterans and widows. Janet Whitwell-Caisey, the director of nursing at Westmeath home in Pemb...

A former Royal Marine and his wife marked Remembrance Day with their own tribute to fallen soldiers at the Royal Naval Cemetery on Ireland Island South. “It struck a chord with me,” said Jonah Jones, who paid respects on November 11 at the graves of ...