Published: 03/10/2018

The annual Royal Navy Photographic Competition

HMS Trenchant has broken through the ice of the North Pole with two US submarines, as polar Ice Exercise 18 (ICEX) comes to an end. – photo: MoD Crown Copyright 2018 ©
Royal Marines turned Angels to rescue comrades from the battlefield in the Arizona desert. – photo: MoD Crown Copyright 2018 ©
Aspen Mbabazi takes part in an air defence exercise where personnel were closed up on the Bridge and in the Operations Room. -photo: MoD Crown Copyright 2018 ©

Each year at this time skilled photojournalists are recognised for their perfect pictures in the Royal Navy’s annual photographic competition – the Peregrine Trophy Awards. These were presented at an event at Trinity House in the City of London in the last week of September.

Royal Navy photographers are charged with telling the stories of sailors and Royal Marines around the world through still imagery and video, taking them on deployments with warships and commando units wherever they may go. In the past year their imagery and video has covered everything from submarine operations in the North Pole, flight deck operations on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, joyful homecomings and Royal Marines Commando exercises in hot climates.