SEVEN former lord mayors are to petition the Ministry of Defence in a bid to ensure the current HMS Manchester is not the last Royal Navy vessel to bear the city's name. Coun Tony Burns, first citizen ...

TWO of the Royal Navy’s best-known warships are making their final farewells to Liverpool. Glorious winter sunshine greeted HMS Manchester’s arrival yesterday on her last visit to Liverpool.

Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS Manchester -a veteran of the first Gulf War - returned to her Portsmouth home for the last time on February 17. The 31 year-old vessel - which has clocked up 858,882 ...