A sophisticated mine hunting vessel that can be a mothership for autonomous boats have been brought into the Royal Navy.

The UK's Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) minehunting mother ship RFA Stirling Castle has been officially transferred to the Royal ...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has disclosed that Stirling Castle ship officially transitioned from a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ...

Four of those were Royal Navy warships — HMS Northumberland, Mary, Restoration and Stirling Castle. All four are now listed as Protected Wrecks, the marine equivalent of Listed Buildings.

HMS Stirling Castle was built in 1678 at Deptford, then in Kent, and was one of 20 of this kind constructed in a programme to regenerate the English navy.

Ranging from the Mary Rose and the HMS Invincible discovered off Hampshire, to the HMS Stirling Castle at the Goodwin Sands, to the 74 German ships scuttled at Scapa Flow, thousands of shipwrecks ...