Following a £50m refurbishment, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Victoria left Birkenhead, UK for the Arabian Gulf in support of international coalition forces operating in the region. As an Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) ship, offering the capability of both stores and fleet tanker, Fort Vi
NATO Maritime Command yesterday, January 24 shared pictures of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Groups One as it departed the German Naval Base Kiel. The Group was assembled in Kiel for the change of command ceremony where the German Navy Commander Martin Schwarz replaced his Royal Netherlands
Atlas Elektronik UK, a joint company of ThyssenKrupp and Airbus DS, has delivered an ATLAS Remote Combined Influence Minesweeping System (ARCIMS) multi-role unmanned surface vessel (USV) to the German Naval Technical Centre, based within the Eckernfoerde Naval Base. The company said this delivery fo
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
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.
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,
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
Commanding Officer of Danish HMDS Absalon, Commander Per Moll Petersen paid a visit to Allied Maritime Command – MARCOM to deliver the Staff his mission debrief regarding his most recent deployment in NATO Operation Ocean Shield. During this visit, MARCOM Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Giorgio Lazio r
Commander of Combined Task Force 152 met with the UK Second Mine Warfare Battle Staff (2MWBS) onboard the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Cardigan Bay while the ship was in Manama, Bahrain. 2MWBS is comprised of a team of 17 specialists drawn from multiple warfare and engineering disciplines from regular and
Defence and security company Saab announced January 20 that it will supply a coastal surveillance and border protection system to Croatia. According to Saab, the system is scheduled to be operational by June 2016. The coastal surveillance system will provide real-time information from radar sensors,
In 2015 Swedish Navy joined an organization called the European Amphibious Initiative (EAI) formed by five EU nations in 2000. The initiators were France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. The aim of this organization is to strengthen the interoperability of European forces and optimize and
Royal Navy’s Fleet Amphibious flagship HMS Bulwark has sailed into 2016 with a new captain and several trophy additions. Captain James Parkin succeeded Captain Nick Cooke-Priest who departed the ship for a post in the Ministry of Defence in London. Parkin joined the Royal Navy as a Warfare Officer i
