During the 11-mile (18km) journey, the frigate was successfully lifted off a partly-submersible barge, the Royal Navy said.

HMS Venturer left her dry dock on Saturday morning and was towed around the Firth of Forth in Scotland in her maiden voyage.

HMS Venturer, the first of five Type 31 frigates Babcock is delivering for the Royal Navy, has completed her first entry into ...

Once tugs were attached the frigate was towed back up river on her ‘maiden voyage’ with Venturer’s Senior Naval Officer, ...

The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) first Type 31 Inspiration-class frigate, the future HMS Venturer (F 12), has completed its first ...

New frigate HMS Venturer, the Royal Navy's first Type 31 frigate, was gently lowered into the River Forth at the Port of ...

The Royal Navy’s newest warship has taken to the water for the time time. HMS Venturer made its debut on the River Forth after four years of construction. It is one of five Type 31 frigates that will ...

HMS Venturerer passes the Forth rail Bridge (Image: Babcock) Lieutenant Dai Guthrie, the frigate’s Deputy Marine Engineer Officer, was delighted to be involved at “such an historic moment as Venturer ...

After more than three years’ construction in a cavernous assembly hall in Rosyth, Fife, the 28-metre-tall doors were opened and HMS Venturer began to emerge. The ship is the first of five Type 31 ...

The design, based on the Danish Iver Huitfeldt class, has also been sold to Poland and Indonesia for their own respective ...

The Royal Navy’s newest warship has taken to the water for the time time. HMS Venturer made its debut on the River Forth after four years of construction. It is one of five Type 31 frigates that ...