British warships have taken part in their first major exercise in the Persian Gulf since passing through the Suez Canal last week. Three Royal Navy ships – fleet flagship HMS Bulwark, helicopter and commando carrier HMS Illustrious and Type 23 frigate HMS Westminster – joined with 3 warships from th
NATO’s Operation OCEAN SHIELD Force Commander, Norwegian Commodore Henning Amundsen met with the Commander of the Chinese Maritime Forces ETG 999, Rear Admiral Jiang Zhonghua on board the NATO Flagship HNoMS FRIDTJOF NANSEN this Sunday, 15 September, 2013. Although this is the eighth time the two na
As the Britons gear up to welcome into the fleet the biggest warships ever made domestically, a Royal Navy pilot completed a week of Development Testing II (DT-II) of F-35B Lightning II jets aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp. The UK is building two new aircraft carriers of Queen Elizabeth
HMS Exploit has continued her busy tempo of operations after Summer Leave period, by embarking 11 Officer Cadets from Britannia Royal Navy College for Initial Warfare Officer Foundation Training. As part of the new training system at BRNC, young warfare officers complete a 13 week package of simulat
Pella Shipyard has completed the trials of the tugboat “MB-93”, building No 504, the second from the series of 6 tugboats of project PE-65, built for the Russian Navy. In November the tugboat will be put into operation within RF Pacific Fleet. Assignment: towing of vessels and floating objects in ha
The Fleet Commander visited Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose to meet service personnel from across the Base, discuss current operations and see for himself the Navy’s next generation anti-submarine maritime patrol helicopter, Merlin Mk 2. Vice Admiral Philip Jones CB, Fleet Commander & Deputy Chief
A green-thinking Royal Naval sailor has made a splash at Plymouth Royal Naval Base by reducing costs and the carbon footprint of a diver training tank. Chief Petty Officer Chris Springett, an engineer at Devonport Naval Base Southern Dive Unit, has won a coveted MOD award for dramatically improving
A fire burned for five hours on an atomic-powered submarine undergoing repairs near Russia’s eastern port of Vladivostok on Monday, but naval and shipyard officials said there was no risk of a radiation leak and nobody was hurt. Black smoke poured from the submarine Tomsk, which is powered by two nu
Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sir John Jenkins LVO KCMG, visited HMS Bulwark while the warship transited the Red Sea on route to the Gulf. It was Sir John’s first overnight visit to a Royal Navy warship at sea but it gave him the opportunity to see the Royal Navy’s Respons
HMS Sutherland and HMS Tyne were moored at the Royal Docks outside ExCel from Monday September 9 until Sunday as part of the DSEi defence and security exhibition, providing delegates with a visible demonstration of naval power and capability. he third vessel – HMS Northumberland – was berthed at Can
DCNS has signed a contract with BAE Systems to supply four high-efficiency heat exchangers for boats 6 and 7 of the Royal Navy’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine programme. DCNS has been a preferred supplier of BAE Systems on the Astute programme since 2001. This latest contract makes t
On Wednesday 11 September, German frigate FGS Niedersachsen received a special kind of air mail, when a Spanish Maritime Patrol Aircraft parachuted in voting papers for 20 sailors on board for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Germany. The warship, which has 230 men and women on board is cu
