BIRKENHEAD (Liverpool City Region UNITED KINGDOM) shipyard and engineering service provider Cammell Laird has begun a £47m refit of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Fort Victoria. The massive refit will be the biggest ever undertaken by the yard since it began its 25 year through life support ‘clus
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced today that its subsidiary Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) has been awarded two new contracts for fuel and materials services totaling up to approximately $302 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, Naval Reactors Laboratory Field Office. The firs
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a US$90.1 million production contract for engines to power MV-22 aircraft operated by the US Marine Corps. The contract, a modification of a prior agreement, includes a total of 40 Rolls-Royce AE 1107C engines manufactured in Indianapolis, Indiana. The contract was awa
During one of their counter-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden, the EU Naval Force Ukrainian frigate, Hetman Sagaidachniy was tasked by the EU Force Headquarters to provide close protection at sea for a Lebanese-flagged merchant vessel, which had suffered engine failure and was drifting in the pirac
Guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) provided humanitarian assistance to three Iranian mariners on an adrift dhow in the Gulf of Oman, Feb. 16. Gettysburg stopped to render assistance at approximately 7:30 a.m. after being signaled by the mariners aboard the vessel, approximately 45 miles
The U.S.Navy’s Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Columbus (SSN 762) departed Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam for a deployment to the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) region, on February 19. Columbus’ commanding officer, Cmdr. David Youtt, said the submarine and her crew are ready to get underway
BAE Systems Land and Armaments L.P. received a $15.2 million modification to a previously awarded Virginia Class Submarines contract on Feb. 18, 2014. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. The contract relates to supply of long lead time materials in support
GE’s Power Conversion business has been awarded a development contract to further explore the opportunities presented by adopting DC distribution technology in Royal Navy ships. The company has been working closely with the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) for many years on electric propulsion progr
The Sri Lanka Navy rendered assistance to an Indian Salvage Team, comprising three boats and a 14-member crew that had come to salvage a fishing trawler, which had run aground south of Delft. The trawler ran aground on October 3, 2013 due to an engine defect during rough sea conditions. The crew o
Nearly 2,000 San Diego residents and tourists stood in line in order to make their way on board the littoral combat ship USS Independence (LCS 2) while the vessel was moored at the B Street Pier in downtown San Diego, Feb. 12-13. The community outreach event, sponsored by Commander, Naval Surface
A £1m new facility will provide sailors and Royal Marines the most realistic board and search training they’ve ever had. The ‘ship in a box’ complex at HMS Raleigh recreates the inside of a merchant ship, but also features secret compartments and hiding places as used by smugglers, drug runners an
The crew of the German Navy ship, FGS Hessen, which is currently deployed within the EU Naval Force, changed an engine of the warship’s Sea Lynx Mark 88A helicopter during their recent port visit to the Seychelles last month. The procedure of changing an engine is extremely specialized and require
The safety of the third convoy of Syrian chemical weapons will be ensured by the Russian Navy’s missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky, the Voice of Russia reports. The operation of securing the convoy will include ships from the Chinese, Danish and Norwegian navies as well. The shipment of the weapons left
The Chinese Navy is gearing up to send two Jin-class submarines, carrying nuclear missiles, to patrol through the northern Pacific Ocean, according to USNI News. The submarines will come within range of at least two US states. Their missiles are capable to fly no less than 14,000 kilometers with a
