The U.S. Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta stopped at Naval Station Newport during the ship’s first port visit en route to its future homeport at Naval Base San Diego. USS Rafael Peralta was delivered to the U.S. Navy on February 3, 2017 from General Dynam
Two Royal Canadian Navy Kingston-class coastal defence vessels, HMCS Summerside and Moncton, returned to Halifax on May 2, following a two-month deployment to West Africa. The deployment was part of a mission called Neptune Trident 17-01 and saw the ships work with allies and partners to build relat
The U.S. Navy’s “newest” nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Cheyenne (SSN 773) arrived at Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan, on May 2, for a visit as part of its Indo-Asia-Pacific deployment. A week before Cheyenne’s Japan visit, U.S. Navy Ohio-class submarine USS Michigan visited B
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed a battery that is safer than fire-prone lithium-ion batteries, allowing for some recently banned applications to return to navy ships and other platforms. Researchers from NRL’s Advanced Electrochemical Materials group are leading an effort to c
The U.S. Navy has installed a submarine rescue diving and recompression system (SRDRS) aboard the submarine support vessel HOS Dominator at Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) in Coronado, California. Members of Undersea Rescue Command (URC), based at NASNI, and contractors from Phoenix Holdings
U.S. Navy ships from the Makin Island amphibious ready group arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, for the final port call of their deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation. During the seven-month deployment to U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command areas
Royal Canadian Navy’s Kingston-class patrol vessel HMCS Saskatoon wrapped up a two-month deployment returning to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt on April 28. The ship spent the two months deployed to operation Caribbe, Canada’s contribution to the multinational campaign against transnational criminal
Royal Australian Navy’s Armidale-class patrol boat HMAS Wollongong has embarked on a voyage to the South West Pacific as part of the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) commitment to assist with building security capacity in the region. Wollongong’s South West Pacific deployment will see the Armidale-c
Ships from NATO’s Standing Maritime Group one (SNMG1) arrived in Warnemünde, Germany, for a scheduled port visit on April 28. The group is currently on a deployment to the Baltic Sea. SNMG1 has, during the past months, participated in several multinational exercises off the coast of Norway and Great
U.S. Navy destroyers USS Sterett and USS Dewey arrived in Hong Kong on April 29 for their first foreign port visit on their Western Pacific deployment. The command staff of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 31 and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), along with an embark
U.S. and Dutch Navy ships made a cocaine bust while on patrol conducting Operation Martillo in the Caribbean Sea on April 19. Cyclone-class patrol coastal ship USS Zephyr (PC 8), its embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), along with Dutch Karel Doorman-class multi-purpose frig
Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring departed Constanta, Romania, on April 27 after a two-day visit and exercises with the Romanian Navy. The Portsmouth-based warship visited Constanta for a routine port visit on her way home after supporting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf. De
Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Ballarat and Royal Canadian Navy ships HMCS Ottawa and Winnipeg recently completed a series of underway exercises in the waters of South East Asia. The exercises, conducted in international waters from 19-21 April, included close quarters manoeuvring, practicing re
Russian Navy reconnaissance ship ‘Liman’ collided with Togo-flagged livestock carrier ‘Youzarsif H’ north of Bosphorus, the Russian defense ministry has confirmed. Liman sank in the collision despite the crew’s efforts to keep the vessel afloat. The reconnaissance ship’s hull was breached below the
