Veterans have called for a Falklands warship to be saved from the scrapheap. The crew of HMS Exeter saluted the destroyer as she returned home to Portsmouth last month to enter what the navy calls' ...

Almost 81 years ago to the day, a German naval officer by the name of captain Hans Langsdorff put on his uniform, wrapped himself in a German flag, and shot himself in the head. Just three days ...

HMS Exeter (D89) (seen on the 30p £1.66p) was the seventh Type 42 destroyer and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be called Exeter. Designed to provide area air defence to a group of ships, a ...

War grave HMS Exeter is being plundered for scrap metal and the bodies of sailors who drowned aboard her are being dumped in mass graves. Reports in Indonesian media say dredgers have been operating ...

A special service has been remembering the crew of HMS Exeter which sank in the Far East during the Second World War. Around fifty men were killed as the ship went down. But many more died at the ...

The cruiser HMS Exeter, best known for its valiant role in the Battle of the River Plate when it hunted down the pride of the German navy, the Admiral Graf Spee, was located by divers searching the ...

The HMS Exeter is one of the best known British warships of the Second World War. Inside Out follows the ship's veterans on an emotional journey to Indonesia. Series Producer Dimitri Houtart tells how ...

Hundreds of people turned out in Exeter today to watch the freedom of the city granted to the crew of one of the Royal Navy's newest ships HMS Defender. Its taken over the role of HMS Exeter and marks ...

HMS Exeter, the last surviving operational Royal Navy warship which took part in the Falklands War, will retire from service on Wednesday. 27 May 2009 • 7:32am A decommissioning ceremony to mark the ...