HMS Liverpool recently returned from a seven-month deployment off Libya where she played a key role as part of NATO’s task force during the conflict – she also became the first Royal Navy warship to be fired upon in 30 years and returned that fire in self-defence. The Type 42 destroyer has reached t
Submarine tender USS Frank Cable(AS 40) arrived in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a port visit, Jan. 23. Frank Cable is currently in the Pacific Ocean headed to Portland, Ore., for a regular overhaul and dry-docking (ROH). “I’m kind of excited,” said Yeoman 2nd Class Christopher Brown, a Sailor assigned
Deployed Sailors and Marines aboard amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) spent five days in Naples, Italy, during a scheduled port visit Jan. 17-22. Thanks to the ship’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation committee, the crew of more than 700 Sailors and embarked Marines had the rare
Another group of Indian naval servicemen received diplomas of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy on the New Year’s Eve in Severodvinsk. The documents were handed over to future crewmen of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya; they are 23 bilge engineers, the first group of the second course. Capt Srinivas Kud
The Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP), Vice Adm. Scott Van Buskirk, visited the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center (NETPDTC) Jan. 19 on board Saufley Field, in Pensacola, Fla. Van Buskirk’s visit was part of a larger familiarization tour of commands in the Manpo
Fincantieri shipyard at Muggiano recently launched the “Ganthoot”, the first of two stealth patrol vessels included in the “Falaj 2” program in progress for the United Arab Emirates Navy who ordered them in 2010. The ship, whose name comes from a geographical area in the Emirates in the neighbourhoo
Adm. Cecil D. Haney, former deputy of the U.S. Strategic Command, relieved Adm. Patrick M. Walsh as commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during a change of command ceremony onboard Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Jan. 20. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert presided over the ceremo
USS Halsey (DDG 97) responded to a call of distress from M/V Albrouj, a Yemeni dhow that was en route to Somalia from Yemen, while the U.S. ship was conducting helicopter operations in the Gulf of Aden, Jan. 19. The guided-missile destroyer Halsey, which was two hours away from the position of the d
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta arrived aboard USS Enterprise (CVN 65) to visit the Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier while the ship was underway in the Atlantic Ocean. The visit marks Panetta’s first time aboard an aircraft carrier as Secretary of Defense. During his time onbo
The chief of naval personnel (CNP) got a detailed look at the broad spectrum of courses taught through the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training (CNATT), when he visited Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 18. From the intricacies of troubleshooting sophisticated electronics and engines o
HMS Argyll joined an American carrier battle group passing through the Strait of Hormuz to assert the right of freedom of the seas. She sailed with a French warship and four US vessels, led by the 100,000-ton carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as a demonstration of Britain’s ‘enduring contribution to Gulf
Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) participated in a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) training exercise, Jan. 18. The scenario tested the ability of the VBSS team to conduct a boarding after pirates attacked a vessel. “They hit us hard,” said Op
Pacific Fleet (PF) task unit consisting of large ASW ship Admiral Panteleyev, seagoing tanker Boris Butoma, and rescue tug Fotiy Krylov left Indonesian port Surabaya and set a course for the port of Manila, Philippines. The program of the 4-day visit to Indonesia was full of events. On the first day
Two Sailors assigned to USS Makin Island (LHD 8) were given the unique opportunity to participate in a Marine Corps leadership development course taught by the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Jan. 2-18. Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Matthew Alexander, assigned to Makin Island
