On 21 July four Italian Navy units faced emergency and rescued many would-be migrants coming from North African coasts. Corvette Sfinge rescued 95 people (including two women) from a raft; amphibious vessel San Giorgio went to the aid of two boats, rescuing 276 people (including 33 women and 5 chi
On Tuesday 22 July 2014 Spanish frigate ESPS Navarra joined the EU Naval Force Somalia Operation Atalanta. Over the next five months the task of the 214 men and women on board will be to deter, prevent and repress acts of piracy and armed robbery in the piracy high risk areas and escort World [&he
In a symbolic gesture the UK’s outgoing helicopter carrier has handed over duties to her successor. In the waters off the south coast HMS Illustrious and HMS Ocean met yesterday morning and the baton of protecting the nation’s interests handed between the two. The two ships steamed side by side, i
Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd have been awarded the contract for the support and maintenance of HMS Protector (A173), following a competitive tendering process. HMS Protector is the Royal UK Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship, and is deployed on operations for 334 days per year. The vessel was chartered from comme
UK’s biggest warship HMS Queen Elizabeth was recently moved out of dry dock to a neighbouring jetty where she will be completed over the next two years. Below is a video of the float up and move of the vessel: A small fleet of tugs was used to transport the ship from the dock where she was construct
HMS Illustrious has returned to her Portsmouth home for the last time. The Navy’s helicopter and commando carrier, which has clocked up 898,893 miles on operations throughout the world, is being succeeded by HMS Ocean, the Royal Navy’s larger, younger and more capable helicopter carrier which has
Two Plymouth based Type 23 frigates have met up in the Caribbean while deployed on operations. HMS Argyll and HMS Portland met off the coast of Puerto Rico to transfer essential stores and took the opportunity to conduct ship manoeuvring training. HMS Argyll is at the start of her six month APT(N)
TORM Lotte, a product tanker owned by Danish shipowner TORM A/S, has assisted Italian and Maltese authorities in a rescue operation to save a large group of boat refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. TORM Lotte, sailing under DIS flag, was bound for LA SKHIRA when the vessel on 18 July received an ur
RNAS Culdrose Sea Kings from the Royal Navy’s Airborne Surveillance Force are gaining their sea legs again after operating for the past two years over the deserts of Afghanistan. 857 Naval Air Squadron, who fly Sea King Mk 7 Airborne Surveillance and Control helicopters, are affectionately known a
Having recently returned from a multi million pound refit – HMS Ocean has now finished taking onboard her ammunition and is ready for service as the nation’s on call helicopter carrier. This is just the next step in her regeneration after she welcomed her first helicopters last week. Prior to that
HMS Ocean has successfully completed her first phase of engineering sea trials following her multimillion pound refit. A period of ‘running in’ and manoeuvres off the South West Coast has tested the Plymouth-based ship’s propulsion plant, auxiliary machinery and steering to the limit and saw her a
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) witnessed the departure of Devonport based Royal Navy Warship HMS Argyll today after a two day community engagement and disaster relief planning visit. HMS Argyll hosted local disaster management leaders on-board to discuss the capabilities a Type 23 Frigate could
HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy’s Fleet Flagship, celebrated her tenth birthday at Plymouth. The crew of the Plymouth-based amphibious landing ship was joined by over 300 family members whilst alongside in HM Naval Base Devonport to celebrate this significant milestone in the life of the Fleet Flagshi
The Russian State Commission signed the acceptance papers for the new corvette “Stoiky” on July 18 in Baltiysk. According to PortNews.ru, this third serial corvette of project 20380 was built at Severnaya Verf, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. “Stoiky” inhe
