U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived home in Baltimore Sept. 8 after completing Continuing Promise 2011 (CP11), a five-month humanitarian and civic assistance mission in the southern hemisphere. CP11 was part of an annual mission that fosters goodwill, and demonstrates U.S. commitm
Courtesy meeting between Russia’s Baltic Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov and Royal Danish Navy Commander Rear Admiral Finn Hansen was held on Sept 8 in conference hall of the Central Naval Museum, St. Petersburg. Meeting of the admirals was conducted within the framework of official stat
Hellenic Coast Guard has announced 12,000,000 EUR tender for supply of 6 coastal patrol vessels. Project Period is 16 months from date of contract award. Hellenic Coast Guard is the national coast guard of Greece. Like most other coast guards, it is a paramilitary organization that can support the H
General Major Yury Zviryk was appointed a new director of Black Sea/Azov Coast Guard Department; his previos post was the head of FSB Frontier Service, Abkhazian branch, reported press service of Krasnodar regional administration on Sept 6. Zviryk has shifted Fedor Cherednichenko whose next position
The Royal Australian Navy has hosted the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Command Course (SCC), at Fleet Base West and in the fleet exercise areas off Western Australia. Australia supports the SCC every year; regularly sending an Australian submarine to Hawaii (as well as the international biennial Rim of the
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic Northeast Integrated Product Team awarded a $14.6 million contract Aug. 31 to Triton/Seaward of Bremerton, Wash., for repairs to Dry Dock #1 at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine. According to Ian Bodwell, project manager at NAVFAC Mid-A
The Boeing Co., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $166,808,999 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract (N00019-09-C-0022) to provide funding for long lead materials in support of the low rate initial production, Lot 3, of 11 P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft. Work wil
President Benigno Aquino III has ordered the release of P4.95 billion to buy six helicopters and a high-endurance cutter and finance other e… (manilastandardtoday) [mappress] Source: manilastandardtoday, September 9, 2011;
Five U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen participated in the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise 2011 ending Sept. 6 while embarked with Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Midshipmen 1st Class Matthew Milam, Amadeo Deluca-Westrate, Andrew Marthy, David Hoang, a
Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff accompanied by Mrs. Madhulika Verma, President Navy Wives Welfare Association is at Visakhapatnam on a three-day visit to the Eastern Naval Command. The Chief of the Naval Staff held discussions on Thursday with Vice Admiral Anup Singh, Flag Officer Com
The NYK Group conducts accident-response training exercises regularly and, to prepare for unforeseeable circumstances, the group cooperates with anti-terrorism and anti-piracy training exercises conducted in various countries to enhance the crisis-response capability of group employees. – Anti-terro
The Navy began construction of the thirteenth Virginia-class submarine, the as of yet unnamed SSN 787 Sept. 2. This new construction marks the first time in 22 years that two submarines of the same class have started construction in the same year. “To get to this important point, our Navy/industry s
Pacific Fleet (PF) task unit headed by large ASW ship Admiral Panteleyev on Sept 8 paid formal call at port Sihanoukville, Kingdom of Cambodia. In the recent history of Russia, this is the first visit of our naval servicemen to Cambodia. Soviet Navy ships had been visiting this country since 1968 ti
The last time the people of Ledbury showed their appreciation of the men and women in the ship which carries the town’s name around the world it was ‘chucking it down’. But when sailors from HMS Ledbury returned to Herefordshire to parade through the historic market town, the gods were smiling on th
