The head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, was in the Welsh capital last night (January 28) to address members of Cardiff Business Club. In an annual event organised at St David’s Hotel by the club, which brings together some of Wales’ foremost industrialists and business people, the Fir
Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 3 and 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade (1st MEB) began the synthetic phase amphibious exercise Dawn Blitz 2013 (DB 13) aboard amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) Jan. 28. DB 13 is a live and synthetic amphibious exercise that will focus on the Amphibious Task F
Sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) will participate in a memorial track and field competition, or “field day,” Feb. 16, to honor the victims of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Cryptologic Technician (Collection) 2nd Class Kimberly Henry coor
The Fleet Flagship, HMS Bulwark, has been presented with the 2012 Royal Navy Capability Award and the Capital Ship Efficiency award. The trophies were presented to the Commanding Officer, Captain Andrew Burns Royal Navy, by Rear Admiral Surface Ships, Rear Admiral Potts, at the Surface Ship Command
Five Sailors attached to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) were reenlisted by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert at a ceremony held on Naval Station Norfolk, Jan. 25. “What a better way to spend a Friday afternoon. I’m out of Washington, and I’m about to
Keel laying ceremony for the Second New Class Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), indigenously designed and in–house built by Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) for the Indian Coast Guard, was held at GSL on 28th Jan 2013. The keel laying ceremony for the Second of the New Class OPV comes on the heels of commissionin
Following a nine-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea, the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) returned to Naval Station Norfolk on January 26 marking the successful conclusion of her maiden Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) deployment. The ship departed last April for the U.S. 6th Fleet a
Law enforcement crews aboard the Alameda-based Coast Guard Cutter Waesche seized more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana from a boat approximately 300 miles west of San Diego and apprehended three suspects Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, during a counter-narcotics patrol. It all began when a Sacramento-based Coa
The Hunter turned out in force on Australia Day to tour two of Navy’s Minehunter, Coastal (MHC). HMAS Yarra (IV) and HMAS Huon (II) lowered their gangway for an Open Day as part of the Newcastle Maritime Festival, with approximately 2,500 people lining up for a look. Tours of the bridge, briefings o
Navy was proud to have been involved in a variety of Australia Day events around the country. Australia Day is Australia’s national day and is celebrated on January 26th to mark the anniversary of the arrival of the first fleet into Sydney Cove in 1788. Each year, the Australian Defence Force partic
Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) received confirmation Jan. 13, it was among the list of commands to receive the Pacific Fleet Command’s Retention Excellence Award, known to many Sailors as the ‘Gold Anchor Award’. The award recognizes commands which have met or exceeded the benchmarks of 100 pe
Cubic Simulation Systems has received three contracts from the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando each valued at $99.5 million, the US Department of Defence announced. The contracts include freedom variant, independence variant and mission packages courseware development for
Huntington Ingalls Industries celebrated significant progress on January 26 as the 555-metric ton island was lowered onto the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division. The island will serve as the command center for flight dec
Following an attack in early January on a merchant vessel 260 miles off the Somali Coast, twelve men suspected of committing an act of piracy, were transferred on January 25 by EU Naval Force warship FS Surcouf to the Mauritian authorities for prosecution. When the attack happened on 5th January, th
