HMS Argyll has just completed a very successful 30 day period of exercises and local engagement in the Falkland Islands. Arriving in the South Atlantic on the 1st June she spent 30 days working to a high-tempo programme which included her playing a leading role in Exercise Cape Bayonet. Exercise Cap
The Navy’s Farrier Firefighting Facility at Surface Warfare Officers School Command (SWOS) Engineering Learning Site in Norfolk held its annual USS Forrestal (CVA 59) memorial ceremony with the support of the USS Forrestal Association, July 26. For the first time in 30 years, the annual ceremony was
HMAS Gascoyne has continued her South West Pacific deployment, sailing into Port Vila in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is a burgeoning tourist destination with the majority of the country’s tourists coming from Australia by air or on the many cruise ships that make Port Vila a port of call. After receiving a cul
Family and friends bid farewell to the crew on the submarine piers at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam as the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe (SSN 763) departed July 29, for a deployment to the Western Pacific region. Santa Fe’s Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Timothy Poe said the subma
As the deployment to Southeast Asia draws to a close for USS Freedom’s (LCS 1) “Gold” crew, an advance team of “Blue” crew Sailors is in Singapore to participate in a brief sea trial that began July 30, as part of the upcoming crew swap. The crew swap is a key milestone during Freedom’s maiden [&hel
National Museum of the United States Navy, Cold War Gallery and Display Ship Barry will be accessible through a new gate open to the public starting Aug. 1. For the month of August, Naval History and Heritage Command along with the support of Naval District Washington, will offer free public access
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Summerside departed on July 29th from Halifax, N.S. for Canada’s arctic, where she will be joined later in August by HMCS Shawinigan. This deployment is a part of a 39-day mission north of the 60th parallel, marking the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) longest uninterru
The Lynx Wildcat Maritime Force (LWMF) was awarded the prestigious Australia Shield on 26 July by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir George Zambellas KCB DSC ADC, at a ceremony held at 815 Naval Air Squadron based at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. The Australia Shield, a gift from
It was ten years ago to the day on July 29, 2003, that the final group of Naval Hospital Bremerton staff members returned from Fleet Hospital 8 at Rota, Spain supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the time it was the first, largest and longest deployed fleet hospital
Outstanding service by a Navy Clinical Manager aboard HMAS Ballarat has been recognised with the presentation of an Australia Day Medallion to Petty Officer J’arne Dance at a ceremony at HMAS Penguin this week. PO Dance was commended for her “unfaltering commitment and dedication to her duties as th
Ships and embarked squadrons from Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HST CSG) entered U.S. 6th Fleet’s area of responsibility (AOR), July 26 and 29th. Guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56) and guided-missile destroyers USS Mason (DDG 87) and USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), entered July 26, follow
During the recent Exercise Joint Warrior, and in subsequent weapon firings and submarine training off the West Coast of Scotland, the warship HMS Montrose spent many weeks operating around the Inner and Outer Hebrides. On her travels, she repeatedly passed the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry MV Lord Of T
Having completed a successful three months of Maritime Security and Marine Enforcement tasking since leaving refit earlier this year, HMS Tyne came alongside in the River Tyne to visit her affiliated port of North Shields. Arriving early in the morning on Saturday 13 July, it was a unique opportunit
Following aggression by the fictional island nation ‘Kamaria’, Australia and the United States have been called upon to form a combined force to restore peace and security to the region. Now, a large and highly capable Australian and US Navy fleet is amassing in the Coral Sea to prepare for action a
