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21-655: Naval Service may refer to either: His Majesty's Naval Service , Britain's Royal Navy plus additional services Naval Service (Ireland) , a branch of the Irish Defence Forces United States Department of the Navy , United States military department encompassing the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps Vietnam People's Navy (alternatively Naval Service ),

42-723: A single manoeuvre brigade ( UK Commando Force ) and various independent units, the Royal Marines specialise in amphibious , arctic , and mountain warfare . Contained within the UK Commando Force are three attached army units; 1st Battalion, The Rifles , an infantry battalion based at Beachley Barracks near Chepstow (from April 2008), 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery , an artillery regiment based in Plymouth, and 24 Commando Regiment Royal Engineers . The Commando Logistic Regiment consists of personnel from

63-645: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages His Majesty%27s Naval Service The Naval Service is dominated by the Royal Navy, and operates primarily from three bases in the United Kingdom where commissioned ships are based; Portsmouth , Clyde and Devonport , the last being the largest operational naval base in Western Europe. As of May 2024, there were nearly 100 vessels in service with

84-636: Is funded out of the UK defence budget and the Commodore commanding the RFA is directly responsible to the Royal Navy Fleet Commander . The Royal Fleet Auxiliary also provides the naval service's principal amphibious warfare capability through its three Bay-class landing ship dock vessels. The service is manned by around 1,750 civilian personnel (as of late 2022). The Naval Careers Service

105-537: Is the recruiting arm of the Naval Service. It is manned by former Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel who are typically based at Armed Forces Careers Offices. It is the smallest component of the Naval Service, comprising fewer than 200 personnel. Marine Services enables Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ships, including the United Kingdom's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, to either move in or out of port for operational deployment and training exercises around

126-477: The Ministry of Defence civil service who wear Merchant Navy rank insignia with naval uniforms and are under naval discipline when the vessel is engaged on warlike operations. RFA vessels are commanded and crewed by these civilians, augmented with regular and reserve Royal Navy personnel to perform specialised military functions such as operating and maintaining helicopters or providing hospital facilities. The RFA

147-587: The Army, Royal Marines, and Royal Navy. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a civilian-manned fleet owned by the British Ministry of Defence . The RFA enables ships of the Royal Navy to maintain operations around the world. Its primary role is to supply the Royal Navy with fuel, ammunition and supplies, normally by replenishment at sea (RAS). It also transports Army and Royal Marine personnel, as well as supporting training exercises. RFA personnel are members of

168-685: The First Sea Lord announced that the 'Naval Service' will informally be known as the 'Royal Navy'. The Royal Navy was made a colloquial name for the Naval Service as part of a transformation programme with the approval of the Navy Executive Committee to reflect the strength of the Royal Navy brand and assist with unifying the force. The total displacement of the Royal Navy and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is, as of May 2024, in excess of 752,400 tonnes , while

189-807: The Ministry of Defence and Royal Navy is Serco Marine Services , provided under a private finance initiative . The following services were formerly also components of the Naval Service: Naval Reserve Forces: Formerly the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service , the Fleet Reserve , and the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors were also considered part of the Naval Service. Referred to as the "Senior Service" by virtue of it being

210-586: The Royal Navy for more than 100 years. The service possessed a combined fleet of diesel-electric and nuclear-powered submarines until the early 1990s. Following the Options for Change defence review, the Upholder -class diesel-electric submarines were withdrawn and the attack submarine flotilla is now exclusively nuclear-powered. The infantry component of the Naval Service is the Corps of Royal Marines. Consisting of

231-599: The anchor-handling tug Resolve Blizzard , which provided regional firefighting, oil pollution and emergency response services. Several of these assets were acquired by Boluda which, in June 2024, also strengthened its own presence at Gibraltar by adding the tugboat “VB Responder” to its fleet. As of 2021, marine services at the British military and naval port in the Falkland Islands, Mare Harbour , were provided by

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252-418: The combined displacement of Royal Marine landing craft is approximately an additional 2,200 tonnes. The 2017 Queen's Regulations for the Royal Navy stipulate that the Naval Service consists of: The Royal Fleet Auxiliary operate a fleet of auxiliaries in support of the Royal Navy. Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel are part of the Ministry of Defence civil service . Among the many contractors which support

273-565: The contracted Netherlands Marine Services company Van Wijngaarden. The company operated two tugs ( Giesenstroom and Dintelstroom ) as well as a multi-purpose barge ( MP2003 ) at the port. See the articles below for lists of vessels operated by or in support of His Majesty's Naval Service: [REDACTED]    Royal Navy ( 1SL & CNS ) [REDACTED]    British Army ( CGS ) [REDACTED]    Royal Air Force ( CAS ) Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS)

294-555: The mid 2000s, it was decided that the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service would no longer provide marine services to HM Naval Service, and it would instead be delivered under a Private Finance Initiative instead. Serco were quickly declared preferred bidders and the RMAS was disbanded on 31 March 2008. RMAS vessels carried the ship prefix "RMAS" and auxiliary (A) or yard (Y) pennant numbers . They also had

315-602: The naval force of the former North Vietnam and now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Naval Service . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naval_Service&oldid=1219732438 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

336-688: The oldest service within the British Armed Forces, the Royal Navy is a technologically sophisticated naval force and forms the core structure of the Naval Service. Command of deployable assets is exercised by the Fleet Commander . The United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent is carried aboard the navy's Vanguard class of four nuclear ballistic-missile submarines. The surface fleet consists of aircraft carriers , destroyers , frigates , patrol ships , mine-countermeasures , and miscellaneous vessels. The submarine service has existed within

357-480: The service now being known as Serco Marine Services. Marine services at the Port of Gibraltar , including naval vessels using the port, are provided by Boluda Towage Europe. Boluda acquired Resolve Marine Group in 2024, which had been equipped with one ASD ocean-going and harbour tug ( Resolve Hercules ), four harbour tugs ( Rooke , Wellington , Egerton and Eliott ), two barges ( Isaac 1874 and RMG 280 ) as well as

378-656: The various branches of the Naval Service, plus about 100 additional vessels operated by the supporting Serco Marine Services . These vessels included: 66 commissioned ships of the Royal Navy, 17 principal landing craft of the Royal Marines, 13 auxiliary ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and about 100 supporting Marine Services vessels. Additional vessels are under charter to the Ministry of Defence . As of 2022, HM Naval Service (Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and Naval Careers Service) employed about 39,500 regular and reserve personnel. In 2020,

399-406: The world. The service operates a large assortment of vessels including tugs and pilot boats as well as transporting stores, liquid and munitions and providing passenger transfer services to and from ships for officers and crew. Serco Denholm took over Marine Services to the Naval Service from the now disbanded Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service in 2008. In late 2009 Serco bought out Denholm's share, with

420-411: Was a British Government agency which ran a variety of auxiliary vessels for His Majesty's Naval Service (incl. Royal Navy , Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ). The service from 2009 has been run by Serco and is known as Serco Marine Services . The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service merged with the former Port Auxiliary Service in 1976 to form a component of His Majesty's Naval Service that

441-550: Was known as marine services. Marine services existed to support the operations of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary. In the 1990s, marine services were put out to commercial tender by the Ministry of Defence Warship Support Agency (now absorbed into the Defence Equipment and Support organisation) and by 1996, all tugs, lifting craft, various tenders and management of HMNB Devonport , Portsmouth and Clyde were operated by Serco Denholm . By

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