Cutlass Express, one of four regional Express Series exercises facilitated by U.S. Naval Forces Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet is scheduled to take place in the West Indian Ocean from January 30, to February 6. The exercise focuses on increasing interagency capabilities in deterring counter-piracy, counter i
The Spanish Navy will include Marine Corps Eastern Tercio and the Algameca Naval Station in its research on the use of graphene in ballistic protection systems. The Navy is conducting this research jointly with the Cartagena Polytechnic University (UPCT) in Spain. Composed of a multidisciplinary tea
Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector has arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand, as part of her Southern Ocean patrol. Protector sailed from Hobart in mid December with a team of New Zealand and Australian officers embarked. With their support, Protector conducted a five week fisheries patrol in
The French Navy has recently shared photos and video of the multi purpose salvage, coast guard and stand by safety vessel L’Abeille Bourbon, based in Brest, France. Whenever strong winds are announced, the 80-meter, high seas emergency tow vessel is called upon and ready to act in less than forty mi
The Belgian frigate Leopold I (F930) has docked at her homeport Zeebrugge, Belgium on Saturday, January 23. The ship departed the naval base on October 5, 2015 to combat human trafficking in the Mediterranean unde Operation Sophia and later escort the French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle in
Tasked by the Rome-stationed Maritime Rescue Coordination Center to patrol the southern region of the deployment area, German Navy combat support ship FGS Berlin spotted a vessel approximately 87 kilometers off the Lybian coast. While the rescue operation was still ongoing, the Berlin crew saw anoth
Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Severn arrived in London January 24 for a four-day visit to support the 150th Anniversary of the London Fire Brigade. She was greeted by one of the brigade’s Lambeth-based fire boats – Fire Dart – which saluted Severn with jets of water as she approached North Greenwich.
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Royal Navy frigate HMS St Albans has joined the vessel group protecting the French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle in the Arabian Gulf. The ship headed for the Middle East on December 1, 2015 and spent her first month east of Suez dealing with terrorism, piracy and smuggling in the Indian Ocea
German Navy Commander Martin Schwarz has acceded his Royal Netherlands Navy colleague, Commander Peter A.J. Bergen Henegouwen as commander of Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMCMG1). The handover ceremony was led by NATO Allied Maritime Command’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations,
ScottishPower Renewables and Vatenfall, two windfarm developers, discovered an uncharted wreck of a WWI German submarine which went missing in 1915. The wreck discovered within the East Anglia Zone is 57.6 metres in length, 4.1 metres in width and 4.6 metres in height and the bow appears to be facin
German Navy Rear Admiral Christophe Mueller-Meinhard has handed over the role of Deputy Commander (DCOM) of the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia – Operation Atalanta, to Rear Admiral Jonas Wikstrӧm of the Swedish Royal Navy. The handover took place at the EU Naval Forces’ Operational H
