On 6 April 2015 the Institute for Maritime Technology (IMT) Simon’s Town hosted a Mine Warfare and Underwater Security Show and Tell. IMT Acting Senior Executive Manager (SEM), Mr E.C.K. Malan gave a warm welcome to all Fleet Mine Counter Measures (MCM) operators followed by Captain (SAN) T. Stokes
The dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43) conducts a southbound transit of the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb on May 4. Fort McHenry, part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is participating in exercise Eager Lion 2015, a recurring multinational exercise designed to strengthen military-to-milita
Turkish Navy frigate will escort a cargo ship back to Turkey after it suffered an attack off Libya. The Turkish Government reported yesterday that the cargo vessel, named Tuna-1, was fired upon from land while it was sailing in international waters, 13 miles off Tobruk, on May 10. Tuna-1 was on its
On April 28, 2015, Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit stepped back into a more direct naval defensive role when they augmented security for the mine countermeasures ship USS Sentry (MCM 3) during a transit through the Strait of Bab el Mandeb. Maj. Tyler Holland, the 24th MEU assistant o
The Military Sealift Command’s joint high-speed vessel USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), along with its embarked detachment of U.S. Navy Sailors and civil service mariners, departed Mindelo, Cabo Verde, following a scheduled port visit May 11, 2015. The visit is Spearhead’s final port call as it finishes up
Dynamic Mongoose 2015 Begins NATO’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise DYNAMIC MONGOOSE 2015 (DMON 15) began today, Monday, 4 May 2015, off the coast of Norway, with ships, submarines, aircraft and personnel from 10 Allied and 1 partner nation converging on the Norwegian Sea for anti-submarine and anti
On Wednesday 6 May 2015 Rear Admiral Alfonso Gómez from the Spanish Navy, assumed command of Operation Atalanta’s Force Headquarters (FHQ) during a ceremony held in Djibouti. The new FHQ staff, which is embarked in Spanish Navy warship, ESPS Galicia, is made up from 14 European Union Member States,
Spanish Navy’s patrol vessel Vencedora hosted Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey on May 4 in Dakar, Senegal. The Prime Minister was welcomed aboard by the vessel’s Commander. He conducted a brief visit, signed the Book of Honor and received a presentation on the vessel’s various capabilities,
On Thursday 30 April the ship’s company and international Force HQ staff based on board the EU Naval Force flagship, HNLMS Johan de Witt, were presented with their Operation Atalanta counter-piracy medal by Force Commander, Rear Admiral Jonas Haggren. In his speech Rear Admiral Haggren thanked the s
Australian Navy’s Seahawk helicopter crew embarked in HMAS Success operated in support of Operation OCEAN SHIELD, a NATO counter-piracy operation around the Horn of Africa, in early April. The Seahawk crew and their helicopter ‘Odin’ have been deployed to the Middle East since November 2014 as part
The Italian Navy and Coast Guard, assisted by French vessels, tugs and commercial ships, rescued over 5,800 migrants over the weekend. Italian and French vessels conducted 17 separate rescue operation off Libyan coast as smugglers took advantage of calm seas to send boats packed with migrants across
Admiralty Shipyards Launches Sub Krasnodar Admiralty Shipyards held a ceremonial launching of diesel-electric submarine Krasnodar in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on April 25. USS Farragut Sent to Help Maersk Tigris U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain answered a distress call yesterday morning
