On April 5th, 1942, two Royal Navy heavy cruisers, hms Cornwall and Dorsetshire, were patrolling the Indian Ocean west of ...

The crew of the recently retired Royal Navy warship HMS Cornwall have taken part in a special parade in Truro. The Royal Navy said the crew would be exercising their "ceremonial historic right" to ...

A Devonport-based Royal Navy warship has rescued five men from a sinking rubber boat in the Mediterranean. A Lynx helicopter from HMS Cornwall was on routine flying operations when a dinghy was ...

HMS Cornwall, a Type 22 frigate, is due to arrive in Malta today. The ship and her crew are paying a visit to Malta until 28 November 2009 as they head back towards the UK after spending the summer on ...

HMS Cornwall and the Pakistan warship PNS Shahjahan met in the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea. HMS Cornwall is involved in sea security throughout the Middle East, and crews from both warships ...

A naval boarding party from HMS Cornwall, who rescued five hostages and their fishing vessel from the clutches of Somali pirates Navy troops removing arms found on board a boat used by Somali pirates ...

Secret Ministry of Defence documents released to the Times newspaper reveal that the British government lied about the circumstances surrounding the capture of 15 sailors and marines from HMS Cornwall ...

Commander has told of the dramatic moment his crew launched an armed raid on Somali pirates. David Wilkinson was in charge of HMS Cornwall as the vessel swooped on a pirate ‘mother ship’ in the Gulf ...

The commanding officer at the centre of the Iranian hostage crisis has been removed from his post, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. Commander Jeremy Woods was captain of the frigate HMS ...

Damage has been caused to a historic shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall by fishing equipment which was illegally placed on the protected wreck of HMS Coronation. The HMS Coronation was a 90-gun ...

You are in: Cornwall > About Cornwall > About Cornwall > HMS Wave These historic pictures from 1952 were sent in by the St Ives Trust Archive Study Centre. They show HMS Wave which ran aground in the ...