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The operation comes soon after HMS Portland took part in a major NATO submarine-hunting exercise, which is a large joint operation that the Navy said 'proved to be the ideal prelude for this type of live operation'.

News of the latest flashpoint comes just one day after Britain revealed it had provided more than £2billion of arms to war-torn Ukraine including anti-tank missiles and night-vision goggles, and plans to send hundreds of drones and anti-tank weapons in the coming weeks to help fend off Russian president Vladimir Putin's war of aggression. Therefore they were tracking throughout.'

The Russian submarines then continued to St Petersburg for Russian Navy Day celebrations which are due to take take place in just over a week's time on Sunday, July 31.Īsked whether the Russian submarines were detected underwater too or only after they surfaced, a Royal Navy spokesman told MailOnline: 'I can confirm HMS Portland was on watch as they made their underwater journey and shadowing when they surfaced. The 180-crew British vessel, backed by a P8 Poseidon 'spy plane' bristling with sensors and a specialist submarine-hunting Merlin helicopter, tracked the Russian duo until Nato and Baltic forces took over duties. The Royal Navy said the Type 23 frigate tracked the submarines on Saturday, July 16 and Tuesday, July 19 as they made their underwater journey south along the Norwegian coast from the Arctic. UK submarine hunter HMS Portland shadowed the submarines - cruise missile submarine Severodvinsk and Akula-class attack submarine Vepr - after they surfaced separately in the sea north west of Bergen, Norway. Dramatic photographs today revealed the moment a Royal Navy warship tracked two Russian submarines in the North Sea.