Greek authorities have intercepted a Canadian ship taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza on Monday, forcing the vessel to return to… (aljazeera) [mappress] Source: aljazeera, July 5, 2011;
You might not see them, dwarfed among four mammoth aircraft carriers, but three frigates are also part of the Navy’s local mothball fleet. T… (kitsapsun) [mappress] Source: kitsapsun, July 5, 2011;
The Iranian Navy’s submarines accomplished their first mission in the high seas and returned home on Monday… (farsnews) [mappress] Source: farsnews, July 5, 2011;
Defence procurement agency DGA has placed an order with DCNS for the third Barracuda-type nuclear-powered attack submarine for the French Navy. This order comes under the framework programme contract awarded to DCNS in December 2006 calling for the delivery of six next-generation SSNs between 2017 a
Captain Jim Gilmour has relieved Republic of Singapore Navy Rear Admiral Harris Chan Weng Yip as Commander Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, during a Change of Command ceremony onboard USS MASON berthed in Djibouti. It is the first time that a Royal New Zealand Naval Officer has commanded a major multi
An annual international naval exercise that began as a way to reduce Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and U.S. allies wrapped up o… By Brock Vergakis (winnipegfreepress) [mappress] Source: winnipegfreepress, July 4, 2011
South Korea says its navy has chased away three suspected pirate boats in Somali waters… (miamiherald) [mappress] Source: miamiherald, July 4, 2011;
The Pakistani and Turkish naval forces conducted joint anti-submarine exercise off the Karachi port on Friday, a senior official of the visi… (dawn) [mappress] Source: dawn, July 4, 2011;
On the weekend that America celebrates it’s independence, a huge British ship has come rolling into the waters of Naval Station Mayport… By Len Kiese (firstcoastnews) [mappress] Source: firstcoastnews, July 4, 2011;
Iranians mourning a 23-year-old airline tragedy tossed flowers in the Gulf on Sunday at the site where an Iranian passenger plane was downed… By NASSER KARIMI (forbes) [mappress] Source: forbes, July 4, 2011;
Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), the maritime government entity charged with regulating, coordinating and supervising the maritime sector in Dubai, has announced that it has successfully facilitated the safe repatriation of crew members of one of the non-operational Korean oil tankers stranded
HMS Bangor has arrived in the Mediterranean where she will serve as part of NATO forces off the coast of Libya. The Sandown Class vessel left HM Naval Base Clyde on 6 June 2011 and sailed over 2,500 miles (4,023 km) to arrive in the warm waters of the Med to relieve fellow mine […]
Every Sunday for a past couple of weeks, protesters have taken to a streets of Hanoi as good as Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam chanting “down… (aboutvietnam) [mappress] Source: aboutvietnam, July 4, 2011;
A senior naval commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Sunday that his forces are equipped with modern short and medium… (peopledaily) [mappress] Source: peopledaily, July 4, 2011;
