HMS Forward is a Royal Naval Reserve unit located in Birmingham, England, close to St. Andrews football stadium.

[2] The unit is affiliated with HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer currently in service with the Royal Navy.

[3] In 2000, the ship won the Richards Trophy, a national seamanship competition, at HMS Raleigh (shore establishment).

[5] In 2007, a team from the ship, led by new recruit Jules Morgan, rescued a man with hypothermia from Snowdon in driving hail.

Grandison is a taxi-driver in Sandwell, but left his work and contracts to deploy to the Indian Ocean as part of a team to provide armed protection against piracy to RFA Wave Knight.