A Lynx Mk8 makes low level turn just ahead of the glistening form of frigate HMS St Albans which returned to sea as a £25m revamp drew to a close. The Portsmouth-based warship has completed the first week of intensive trials off the South Coast – her first time at sea for a good […]
Sailors from the U.S. Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC), stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga., went underway April 27 to May 9, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to experience ship life. For many of these Sailors, the underway period was their first experienc
On May 16th, 2014 DITEC International announced that DC-100 Rust Remover, an item in DC-100 Collection™, will be used by French Navy. DC-100 Rust Remover™ implements the AR Technology and is selected to be used aboard French Navy ships. The Rust Remover belongs to DITEC’s DC-100 Collection™, using
The Royal Australian Navy’s Collins-class submarine HMAS Sheean has taken advantage of a mid-ocean encounter by getting in some anti-submarine warfare practice on its way to Singapore for a major exercise. HMAS Sheean will participate in Exercise Bersama Shield 2014 with other Australian Defence F
One of the Royal Australian Navy’s new MRH-90 helicopters recently supported the Basic Fast Rope Course at HMAS Cerberus. The 40 course members who took part in the rigorous assessment had to overcome the challenge of sliding down a rope to disembark a helicopter in hover. It takes a physically an
The commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF), Adm. Bill Gortney, visited Recruit Training Command (RTC) to tour and attend a recruit graduation, May 16. Gortney served as the reviewing officer at the ceremony, which was also attended by Rear Adm. David Russell, commander of Information Domina
The Royal Navy warship HMS Northumberland has completed final preparations and is now ready to deploy on a seven-month deployment policing crucial international maritime trade routes. The Type 23 frigate leaves Plymouth on Monday morning (19th May) to relieve her sister ship HMS Somerset on a six-
The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS San Juan (SSN 751) returned home to Groton, Conn., May 16, after completing a seven-month overseas deployment. San Juan’s crew of more than 140 Sailors departed Naval Submarine Base New London, Oct. 15, to conduct maritime operations in the U.S. Central a
ADV Ocean Shield arrived at Geraldton, Western Australia, yesterday to begin preparations to receive spare parts related to the transponder mounted on the Ocean Shield and the transponder mounted on the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Bluefin-21. The repairs are necessary to correct a hardware issu
A Toledo, Ohio, native assumed command of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Toledo (SSN 769), May 16, during a change of command ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn. About 500 family, friends and crew members looked on as Cmdr. Michael Majewski relieved Cmdr. Sam G
The Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship has made a night-time journey through the Panama Canal to arrive in Charleston following a busy period in Antarctica. HMS Protector took seven hours and 38 minutes to make the 77.1km (48 miles) passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the canal, which this
Half of the way into a scheduled 14-month docking planned incremental availability (DPIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) remains on schedule with repairs and restorations based on progress through the end of April. Following a success
US Navy Sailors Drive Potent New Riverine Boat It’s small, fast, heavily armed, networked and one of a kind. But the new coastal command boat just starting to operate in this region is giving sailors in the Persian Gulf a taste of the swift and bad-ass boats coming to the brown-water Navy. Construct
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) successfully completed its Maintenance and Material Management Inspection (3MI) while on deployment in the Arabian Sea, May 16. “All personnel across the command performed phenomenal,” said Senior Chief Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) Donavo
