The Royal Navy maintains a number of Naval Parties worldwide to support a number of operations and training activities:

Current

Current Naval Parties are: *Naval Party 1002 (NP1002) is the largest component of British Forces British Indian Ocean Territories located at the Permanent Joint Operating Base (PJOB) on

Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is an island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, a disputed overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is a militarised atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of the 60 small islands of ...

, in the British Indian Ocean Territory. The primary role of NP1002 is to act as the islands' civil administration. *Naval Party 1005 (NP1005) is the grouping of Royal Navy exchange officers serving in the Royal Netherlands Navy *Naval Party 1010 (NP1010) is the British Defence Liaison Staff in Ottawa, Canada. *Naval Party 1011 (NP1011) is the Royal Navy detachment at the

Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center The United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is a laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare ...

, Miami, Florida. This is a U.S. Navy submarine test, evaluation, and exercise facility. *Naval Party 1022 (NP1022) is the permanent Royal Navy posting at the

British Defence Singapore Support Unit The British Defence Singapore Support Unit (BDSSU) is a British naval facility located in Sembawang, Singapore. A remnant of a larger naval base, known as HMNB Singapore, the facility provides fuel and other supplies to Royal Navy ships in the r ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

. NP1022 is responsible for managing the British owned and funded naval repair and logistics support facility in support of the

Five Power Defence Arrangements The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) are a series of bilateral defence relationships established by a series of multi-lateral agreements between Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, all of which are Commonwe ...

(FPDA). It is fuelled by the Ministry of Defence Fuels Group. *Naval Party 1023 (NP1023) is the Royal Navy Liaison Office in the Gulf. *Naval Party 1964 (NP1964) is the personnel posted to Joint Force Command Norfolk. *Naval Party 2010 (NP2010) is deployed on the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

and is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the East Cove Military Port at

Mare Harbour Mare Harbour is a small settlement on East Falkland, on Choiseul Sound. It is mostly used as a port facility and depot for RAF Mount Pleasant, as well as a deepwater port used by the Royal Navy ships patrolling the South Atlantic and Antarctica, ...

Defunct

Defunct Naval Parties include: *Naval Party 1004 (NP1004) was the Royal Navy personnel attached to Headquarters

Allied Forces Baltic Approaches Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) was a Principal Subordinate Command (PSC) of the NATO Military Command Structure, with responsibility for the Baltic Sea area. It was in existence from 1962 to 2002 and consisted of the Danish Armed Forces ...

*Naval Party 1008 (NP1008) was the Royal Navy personnel conducting offshore surveys as part of the Civil Hydrographic Programme upon Ships Taken up from Trade (STUFT). These were: MV Sperus (1983), MV Bon Esprit (1983–1986), MV British Enterprise IV (1990–1991), and MV Marine Explorer (1993–1995). *Naval Party 1016 (NP1016) was the Royal Navy personnel conducting inshore surveys as part of the Civil Hydrographic Programme upon Ships Taken up from Trade (STUFT). These were MV Proud Seahorse (1985–2000), and MV Confidante (2001–end of contract). *Naval Party 1020 (NP1020) was the Royal Navy personnel who crewed the MV Northella, whilst it was in use as a navigation training ship from 1985 to 1994. *Naval Party 1027 (NP1027) – Cyprus *Naval Party 8902 was a hovercraft unit formed in June 1967, made up of two officers and eight ratings, equipped with a modified

Saunders-Roe SR.N.6 The Saunders-Roe (later British Hovercraft Corporation) SR.N6 hovercraft (also known as the ''Winchester'' class) was essentially a larger version of the earlier SR.N5 series. It incorporated several features that resulted in the type becoming ...

hovercraft. The unit evaluated the hovercraft around the

and demonstrated it in several South American countries.

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Military installations of the United Kingdom in other countries

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