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Royal Navy's Annual Photographic Competition Gives Inspiring Glimpse Into Forces Life
The eye-catching images are all winners in the annual Royal Navy photo competition and show the many sides of the Forces, which usually go unseen by the public
These intimate and powerful pictures give a fascinating glimpse into the lives of sailors and marines on land and sea.
The eye-catching images are all winners in the annual Royal Navy photo competition and show the many sides of the Forces, which usually go unseen by the public.
Royal Navy photographers were deployed on warships worldwide to capture all parts of naval life.
This year's winner of the Peregrine Trophy, awarded for the best portfolio of six pictures, was Scottish Royal Navy photographer Chief Petty Officer Thomas McDonald.
His pictures included a photo of a crew member being welcomed home after the Royal Navy mine hunter, HMS Ramsey, returned to HM Naval Base Clyde after three years in the Gulf.
The 44-year-old, from Jamestown, Balloch, who runs the photography team based at HM Naval Base Clyde, said: 'I feel very privileged to have won the Peregrine Trophy. In our specialisation it is regarded as the premier recognition of our work.'
Si Ethell won the Best Maritime Image Award for his photograph of HMS Protector breaking ice as it sailed past Galindez Island in the South Atlantic.
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Whilst Lieutenant Jay Allen snapped a rare view from HMS Protector as she travelled through the Panama Canal during her transit into the Caribbean Sea.
Another photo shows ex-Royal Marine Frank Henry Cramp being presented with a Commando green beret and was taken by Joel Rouse of 42 Commando Royal Marines, who won The Commandant General Royal Marines' Prize.
Captain Ian Stidston, head of the Royal Navy photographic branch, said: 'Over the years the branch has developed into a body of imagery specialists who provide a range of niche capabilities for the Navy from documenting weapons tests and flight-deck operations, providing and interpreting intelligence imagery, undertaking combat photography and capturing broadcast-quality cinematography and feeding the relentless media hunger for newsworthy pictures.
'I could not be more proud of the Navy's photographers who capture the Royal Navy and Royal Marines story on a daily basis.'
