A three-ship Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) training squadron (JTS) began a three-day port visit at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 1 as part of an around the world deployment to 16 ports in 13 countries. During the port visit, Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, toured
U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Winson held a change of command ceremony on the flight deck at its homeport in Naval Base San Diego. Capt. Douglas C. Verissimo relieved Capt. Karl O. Thomas as commanding officer during the May 31 ceremony. Rear Adm. James T. Loeblein, commander, C
On May 31, 1918, USS President Lincoln, a U.S. Navy transport ship, was sunk by the German submarine U-90. Built in 1907 in Ireland, the ship initially belonged to the German transatlantic shipping company Hamburg America Line before it was seized in New York harbor in 1917. President Lincoln was th
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic will conduct diver training for Caribbean partner nations from May 30 to June 18, 2016, as part of Canada’s participation in Exercise Tradewinds 16. Hosted by the Caribbean Military Maritime Training Centre and run in Discovery Bay, Jamaica,
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $321.8 million sole-source contract to continue the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) integration and test phase. The integration and test contract will allow Lockheed to carry out further flight testing and integration of LRASM onto the U.S. Air Force
Royal Navy’s International Maritime Training Team has recently delivered navigation and small craft courses at Long Bay, Providenciales, in the Caribbean. Over four weeks, 22 marine police officers from the UK Caribbean Overseas Territories developed and improved their knowledge of handling small ve
U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN 717) held a change-of-command ceremony on the submarine piers in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, May 25. Cmdr. Thomas H. Shugart III, commanding officer of USS Olympia, was relieved by Cmdr. Benjamin J. Selph. Under Shugart’s leade
Canadian shipyard Davie Shipbuilding cut first steel for the Royal Canadian Navy Resolve-class auxiliary oiler replenishment vessel during a ceremony held in Lévis, Québec, May 24. Project Resolve, as the undertaking was dubbed, consists of converting a containership, former MV Asterix which arrived
Norwegian technology corporation Kongsberg Maritime has been chosen to deliver an integrated subsea technology systems package including two HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) for a new Peruvian Navy Hydrographic & Oceanographic research vessel. The 97 metre ‘BAP Carrasco’ is built at Constr
U.S. Navy’s Marine-aviation optimized amphibious assault ship USS America departed its homeport of San Diego for flight deck recertifications on May 16. This was done to prepare the ship for its future role as part of Amphibious Squadron 3 and Expeditionary Strike Group 3. Just short of 36 hours aft
American aerospace and defense technology Northrop Grumman has received an $8.3 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Navy to provide naval ship-based MK39 MOD 3A Ring Laser gyro inertial navigation systems to Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department said May 20 that the company would al
Two Chinese warplanes have forced a U.S. Navy maritime patrol airplane to descend a couple hundred feet to avoid collision on Tuesday, May 17, the Pentagon said. The J-11 jets performed “unsafe” maneuvers to intercept a U.S. EP-3 Aries aircraft flying over the contested South China Sea. The incident
The U.S. Navy is set to christen its 11th amphibious transport dock, the USS Portland (LPD 27) on May 21. The ceremony will be held in Pascagoula, Mississippi at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding yard. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Christopher Owens, director of the U.S. Navy’s expedition
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dependable returned home to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Fort Story in Virginia, following a 55-day counter-drug and migrant patrol through the Florida Straits and the Caribbean Sea. During this patrol, Dependable conducted three separate international and inter
