Sailors aboard USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) participated in a gunnery exercise with German navy ship, FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (F218), as one of many events during Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2014, June 13. A Naval Gunnery Target balloon (NavTGT) served as the exercise target. Sailors fired shots f
After a ten day work-up on-board HMS Illustrious around the Cornish coast, the Merlin Carrier Air Group (MCAG) prepare to “Go Deep” as they sail westwards out into the Atlantic in pursuit of Submarines. Exercise Deep Blue has so far seen the Merlin Mk 2s from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose put t
Royal UK Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless will sail into the Mersey tomorrow in support of the International Mersey River Festival. In her first visit to the city, the 152-metre warship will go alongside at Liverpool’s Cruise Liner Terminal at 10.30am and will form one of the star attractions
Russian submarine K-119 Voronezh assisted a small boat during a storm in the White Sea on June 8th, reports RT.com. When the crew of the small vessel realised that it was running low on fuel, the crew members sent a distress signal to their home port of Arkhangelsk. The authorities from the port s
NATO Standing Mine Counter-Measures Group TWO (SNMCMG2) has wrapped up two weeks of participating in the Italian Navy hosted exercise ITA-MINEX 14. The aim of the exercise was to secure access to commercial ports through effective use of minesweepers and the use of mine hunting capabilities in an
The Lord Mayor of London and the Senior Naval Officer of HMS Queen Elizabeth yesterday (June 9) formally cemented the city’s relationship with the Navy’s new aircraft carrier. HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest ship ever built for the Royal Navy. Weighing in at 65,000 tonnes and under construction
Arriving at Ouistreham Lock, just outside the French city of Caen in the early hours of 6 Jun 14, HMS Richmond was well placed for her important role in commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Following a range of commemorative events including a D-Day 70 Anniversary Ceremony at
The U.S. Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a Russian man Sunday, who was coughing up blood and had difficulty breathing while his ship was anchored about 11 miles south of Cameron, Louisiana. The crew of the cargo ship Saimaagracht contacted Coast Guard Sector Houston/Galveston watchstanders at 2:15 p
A Royal UK Navy helicopter went to the aid of three people – a father and his two children – stranded on a rigid inflatable boat (RIB) after the craft’s engine failed. The RIB had been sailing from Northern Ireland’s Rathlin Island to Port Ellen on the Isle of Islay, approximately 20 nautical mile
The Royal UK Navy’s new submarine-hunting helicopters will face their greatest test yet when they head into the Atlantic next week in the biggest exercise of its kind for many years. Taking part in Exercise Deep Blue in the Western Approaches, the nine Merlin helicopters will join HMS Illustrious
The UK Royal Navy has seized an £8.5m haul of heroin after a raid on a suspect vessel in the northern Arabian Sea. Nearly 60 kilograms of the drug was seized by sailors and Royal Marines from HMS Somerset, the Plymouth-based Type 23 Frigate, who intercepted the fishing boat in Royal Navy fast boat
Phoenix Express 2014, a multinational maritime exercise between North African, European, and U.S. naval forces, which began its inport phase at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operation Training Center (NMIOTC) in Souda Bay, May 13, is now in its underway operations phase in the central Mediterranean
Personnel from European, North African and U.S. Naval forces began preparing for the underway segment of Phoenix Express Exercise 2014 (PE14) by standing up the maritime operations center in Sigonella, May 26. Planners from 10 countries have begun tracking ships leaving ports and integrating logis
HMS Somerset held a Service of Remembrance for personnel from HMS Brilliant who perished when their Lynx helicopter crashed in Mombasa, Kenya on 14 May 1989. The ship’s company of HMS Somerset, including the embarked Lynx flight crew, took time to remember those lost from the Type 22 Broadsword-cl
