Royal Navy’s Global Christmas Presence :  One in seven of its men and women of the Royal Navy/Royal Marines/Fleet Air Arm/Royal Fleet Auxiliary will be on duty this festive season – more than 4,800 men and women in all.   For the record they were deployed as follows:

Strategic Core:

Staff/Northwood Maritime Operations Centre.

Strategic Patrol:                           Strategic Submarine (V Class)

Atlantic Patrol (North}:

Fleet Submarine:                           Fleet Submarine (T Class)

Western Approaches: :                   Frigate or Destroyer (Fleet Ready Escort)

Station Tanker:                            RFA Vessel

United Kingdom (Home Waters):

Search and Rescue/771 Naval Air Squadron/Culdrose

Search and Rescue/Gannet Flight/Prestwick

Bomb Disposal Teams/Plymouth, Portsmouth and Faslane

RN Medics/Working Shifts/NHS Hospitals

Afghanistan:

40 Commando RM (at HMS PRICE/Helmand)

857 Naval Air Squadron (SEA KING AScC7)

Specialist Helicopter Repair Team/1710 Naval Air Squadron

Bomb Disposal Experts/Fleet Diving Unit

East of Suez:

UK Maritime Component (HQ Bahrain)

Duty Submarine:                 TRENCHANT

Maritime Security Patrols:  MONMOUTH       NORTHUMBERLAND (Type 23 Frigates)

Surveying:                         ENTERPRISE        SCOTT (en route)

Stores and Fuel:                 RFA FORT VICTORIA

Minehunters (Bahrain) :       RFA CARDINGAN BAY (Support Ship)/Forward Support Unit 2

                               ATHERSTONE      QUORN      SHOREHAM     RAMSEY

Plus

Embarked Teams/43 Commando RM (Fleet Protection Group) (en route)

South Atlantic:

Antarctica:                       PROTECTOR  (Ice Patrol Ship)

Atlantic Patrol (South):      EDINBURGH (Type 42 Destroyer)

Falkland Guardship:            CLYDE            (Patrol Ship)

Station Tanker:                 RFA GOLD ROVER

Mediterranean:

Gibraltar Squadron:            SABRE           SCIMITAR (Fast Patrol Boats)