The shadow defence secretary has made a bizarre blunder where he confused a current Royal Navy ship with a fictional vessel ...

And the last Royal Navy vessel called HMS Devonshire was built in the 1960s and sunk for target practice in the Atlantic in 1984. But Mr Cartlidge, who was Defence Minister until last July ...

There has previously a Royal Navy ship known as HMS Devonshire. Launched in 1960, it was decommissioned in 1978. Mr Cartlidge has been shadow defence secretary since being appointed by Tory ...