Category: Marines from all over the world

Brazil: The next environmental disaster on the horizon

Brazil: The next environmental disaster on the horizon

Gepostet von | 5 Feb 2023 | , , | 5

Update from 5 February 2023 And it happened just as you could have counted on five fingers: On 4 February 2023, the Brazilian navy sank the scrap carrier "Sao Paolo", which had been drifting in the Atlantic for months and was contaminated with pollutants, in a controlled manner about 190 nautical miles (350 kilometres) off the coast - just inside the Brazilian economic zone - at a water depth of 5,000 metres, free of underwater cables and protection zones. There was "no alternative" - due to the high risk of the ailing, leaking ex-flagship sinking uncontrollably at any time. Environment - doomed to failure The only astonishing thing is that even after the change of government in Brazil...

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Netherlands: Hull Vane for the GRONINGEN

Netherlands: Hull Vane for the GRONINGEN

Gepostet von | 1 Feb 2023 | , , , | 0

The first Hull Vane for the Royal Dutch Navy was delivered in Den Helder at the beginning of June 2022. This is a baffle plate to be fitted under the stern that makes ships faster and quieter, i.e. more efficient, while also improving their sea behaviour. This guide plate will be installed on the transom of the "HNLMS Groningen", one of the four 108-metre-long and, at 3,800 tonnes, frigate-sized ocean patrol vessels (OPV) of the "Holland" class, at the beginning of 2023. Development In 2015, Dutch hydrodynamics specialist Hull Vane BV, as the patent holder, calculated in a study that the guide plate could reduce the annual fuel costs for a patrol vessel by around 13 %. The Defence...

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Security: Mysterious events off Gdansk

Security: Mysterious events off Gdansk

Gepostet von | 23 Jan 2023 | , , , | 0

A robber's tale could hardly read better - but what happened off the coast of Gdansk should make you sit up and take notice. Bad luck in the middle of the night In mid-January, three divers were rescued from distress by the Polish coastguard and SAR services around three miles north of Gdansk when their small, red, very well motorised leisure boat broke down and drifted off in adverse weather conditions. They claimed to be Spanish amberjack divers and had professional diving equipment and an underwater scooter with them, but all but one of them could not identify themselves and did not have a diving licence for this sea area. None of the people involved...

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Protection of maritime infrastructure: first ship arrives at Royal Navy

Protection of maritime infrastructure: first ship arrives at Royal Navy

Gepostet von | 23 Jan 2023 | , , , | 0

The first of two ships intended for this task arrived in Birkenhead near Liverpool on Thursday, 19 January 2023. "Topaz Tangaroa" is to be repainted and refitted for military use at the Cammell Laird shipyard. In six months' time, she will be painted grey and put into service with the Fleet Auxiliary of the Royal Navy. Priority: protecting maritime infrastructure Following the sabotage of the two Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made the programme one of his priorities. Instead of a new national flagship (to replace the Royal Yacht "Britannia"), he accelerated the programme to...

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Russia: Marine fireworks at the turn of the year

Russia: Marine fireworks at the turn of the year

Gepostet von | 15 Jan 2023 | , , , , | 0

The Russian Federation Navy's traditional Christmas fireworks display - but one that was probably necessary to mark the end of the calendar year - with keel layings, launches and commissioning was set off just in time on 29 December by President Vladimir Putin via video conference from his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, 15 kilometres west of Moscow: The minesweeper "Anatoly Shlemov" (Pacific Fleet), the corvette "Grad" (Baltic Fleet) and the strategic nuclear submarine K-553 "Generalissimo Suvorov", the sixth of the eight nuclear-tipped "Borey" class (Pacific Fleet), each with 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles (Bulava 30 / SS-NX-32), were put into service and handed over to the navy. Balm for the soul Previously promised...

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