The news would have been lost in the noise: A Polish single-handed sailor had overlooked the French flagship! Or vice versa - which still needs to be clarified! The course of the incident According to the Préfecture Maritime de Méditerranée (Premarmed), the aircraft carrier CHARLES DE GAULLE was on a training voyage in mid-November...
On the day that British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace visited Ukraine in mid-November and signed an agreement to "develop the capabilities of Ukraine's naval forces", the Ukrainian Navy announced the arrival of two new coast guard boats. The two refurbished ex-ISLAND-class patrol boats from the US Coast Guard, which have been repainted from white to grey,...
China's second navy becomes seaworthy At the beginning of 2013, China decided to merge four of the five different maritime law enforcement agencies into the China Coast Guard (CCG, long title: Chinese People's Armed Police Force Coast Guard Corps (PAPCGC)). For customs tasks, fisheries protection and piracy defence, but above all for the enforcement of sovereignty claims, the CCG...
These are desert ships of the most unusual kind, which a commercial satellite from Maxar Technologies has discovered in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-west China and which the US Naval Institute has reported on in detail. More precisely localised - but not yet visible on maps available on the internet - the site is located on the south-eastern edge of...
In the presence of the Ukrainian ambassador, Vadym Omelchenko, BG 201 was launched in Sables d'Olonne on 9 December. This is the first of twenty patrol boats for the Ukrainian coastguard. The aluminium FPB 98 MKI type vessels can reach 35 knots and are expected to have a range of 12 knots...
246 years ago, on 10 November 1775, the first two battalions of the "Continental Marines" were raised at the Second Continental Congress in preparation for America's independence from the English crown. After the Revolution and the Treaty of Paris in April 1783, the Corps was disbanded, but from 11....
On 7/8 October 2021, a high-level international naval power and strategy symposium was held in Lima, the capital of Peru, to mark the 200th anniversary of the Marine de Guerra del Perú. More than 250 participants gathered in the metropolis on the Pacific to discuss current aspects of naval forces and maritime security in times...
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The prelude to a major manoeuvre always starts with a display: Fifteen ships from the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the German Navy, the Maritime Self-Defence Forces of Japan and the United States Navy sailed in formation on 21 November on the occasion of Japan's ANNUALEX 2021 - with the two helicopter/aircraft carriers in front and the...
They are separated only by an approximately 200 kilometre wide Cambodian coastal strip: Vietnam and Thailand. Both countries are blessed with thousands of kilometres of sea border and many islands and archipelagos. In addition, there are the main arteries of maritime trade, which pass right on each country's doorstep, small and large-scale fishing and, of course, traditionally also a...
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