Sailors from the office of Naval Meteorology and Oceanography released ten global drifter buoys belonging to the University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), May 28, during Pacific Partnership 2013. The buoys
The guided-missile cruiser USS Hue City (CG 66) arrived in Jebel Ali with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) Strike Group, May 27. Jebel Ali is a liberty port for the strike group and the ship’s Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) worked to provide activities for Sai
Plymouth-based frigate HMS Argyll arrived in South Africa in style by firing a 21-gun salute as she made her way into the naval port of Simon’s Town. Royal Navy warships are allowed to fire a 21-gun salute in recognition of a special Royal occasion – however it has also become a tradition as they ar
Royal Navy minehunter HMS Quorn has used her specialist equipment to detect two unlit and uncharted buoys in the middle of the Gulf that presented a danger to local shipping. The ship spotted the mooring buoys in the waters of a busy shipping lane while on a recent multi-national minehunting exercis
The Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team aboard USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) received improved equipment for identification of potential hostiles taken into custody during maritime operations, May 21. The U.S. Navy wanted to develop a program that would ultimately meet the needs of Sailors during
An explosion rips through the hull of the merchant vessel, critically wounding six members of the crew. Two are in danger of losing limbs, another can’t breathe, and a fourth has deep burns across his chest. The casualties are flown to the nearby RFA Cardigan Bay, where the specialist military medic
Whilst alongside Port Victoria in the Seychelles, naval staff from EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Flagship NRP Álvares Cabral and the Seychellois Coast Guard came together on board the Portuguese ship to exchange maritime knowledge and experiences. The Seychellois Coast Guard team visited both the navig
Anadolu Shipyard has organized a ceremony to sign three contracts with the most important suppliers of its Landing Ship Tank (LST) project. The signatories of the supply contracts with the shipyard are ASELSAN, HAVELSAN and İŞBİR Elektrik, all of them companies of Turkish Armed Forces Foundation. Ba
As part of the Fisheries Surveillance Plan for 2013, the Spanish offshore patrol boat ‘Tarifa’ is taking part in the NEAFC International Campaign in the Sea of Irminguer waters, monitoring and supporting the trawlers fleet. In this deployment –from May 5th to June 13th– the ‘Tarifa’ operates as a Eu
HMS Edinburgh – the Royal Navy’s last remaining Type 42 destroyer – returns to her home port of Portsmouth for the final time on Friday (May 31). The 30-year-old warship, which has clocked up almost 800,000 miles, decommissions on June 6 as the Type 42s make way for the new-generation Type 45s. Edin
Spanish Navy Oceanic Patrol Vessel ESPS Rayo has completed a successful deployment with Operation Atalanta, having spent 85 days as part of the EU Naval Force off the coast of Somalia. The Spanish warship had departed her home port of Cartagena on 15 February and after transiting the Suez Canal and
Nevsky Shipyard, LLC got the Certificate of Management System conformity on May 22nd, 2013 applying to production and repair of Naval Forces ships and vessels to requirements of GOST ISO -2011, GOST РВ 15.002-2003. The Certificate was issued by the certification body for quality management systems F
Portsmouth-based Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster left Portsmouth today (Tuesday 28 May) for a six month deployment to the North Atlantic and Caribbean. The Atlantic Patrol will provide a challenging deployment for the ship, where she is scheduled to undertake a range of tasks across the region in supp
The U.S. Coast Guard responded early Monday morning to a fire aboard the 917-foot cruise ship, Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas, 35 nautical miles northwest of West End, Bahamas. At approximately 3 a.m., Coast Guard Sector Miami received a report of a fire aboard a Bahamian-flagged cruise ship c
