In 1976, welder Phil McClean won “Apprentice of the Year” at Harland and Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who also worked in the docks famous for building World War II warships and the Titanic.

BRITISH and Norwegian navies will hunt down Russian submarines together, as the threat of war continues to escalate across Europe. The first-of-its-kind defence pact will be signed today at

The Royal Navy, in coordination with NATO forces, has monitored and escorted one Russian warship (corvette Stoikiy) and one fleet support vessel (tanker Yelnya) as they transited the English

Vladimir Putin has been warned the Royal Navy is 'ready' to respond after it emerged a Kremlin spy ship had fired lasers at British planes - and it's not the first Russian warship to cause alarm