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Aboard HMCS Toronto, with its name, HMCS Toronto written on its bell. The designation His Majesty's Canadian Ship ( HMCS; French: Navire canadien de Sa Majesté [NCSM]), [1] [2] is applied as a prefix to surface ships in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Joint Operations Command. The similar designation of His Majesty's Canadian Submarine is ...
Devonport Flotilla. His Majesty's Naval Base, 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 the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy. The largest naval base in Western Europe, [1] HMNB Devonport is located in ...
It is sometimes known as the Silent Service, as submarines are generally required to operate undetected. [2] The service operates six fleet submarines ( SSNs ), of the Trafalgar and Astute classes (with two further Astute -class boats currently under construction), and four ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), of the Vanguard class .
HMNB Clyde lies on the eastern shore of Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, to the north of the Firth of Clyde and 25 mi (40 km) west of Glasgow. The submarine base encompasses a number of separate sites, the primary two being: Faslane, 25 miles from Glasgow; RNAD Coulport, beside Loch Long, 2 mi (3.2 km) west of Faslane.
It should certainly not be "His/Her Majesty's" as it is not His Majesty's Prison Service and will not be until the UK has a reigning King. 92.235.145.96 ( talk) 13:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC) Reply[ reply] The organisation is legally known as Her Majesty's Prison Service (see [1] among others). I have changed the text in the main article to reflect this.
The Naval Careers Service (NCS) was formed on 1 April 1963 when the Naval Recruiting Service was renamed. It is one of the four components of Her Majesty's Naval Service – alongside the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and the Reserve Naval and Marine Forces – and is governed by the Admiralty Board of the Defence Council.
His Majesty's Naval Service is the United Kingdom's naval warfare and maritime service. It consists of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve and Naval Careers Service. The term Naval Service should be distinguished from the "UK Naval Services", which consist of the Naval Service and the Merchant Navy. The Naval Service as a whole falls ...