Category: Shipbuilding

Welcome to your new home, Stalwart!

Welcome to your new home, Stalwart!

Posted by | 22 Jun 2021 | , , , | 0

After travelling halfway around the globe, the new supply vessel NUSHIP Stalwart has arrived in its new home in Australia for the first time. At the end of May, the Stalwart left Ferrol in Spain, where it had been built at the Navantia shipyard. The future Royal Australian Navy ship will be stationed on the country's west coast in Perth. The Stalwart (A 304), which has not yet been commissioned, is the second and last supply ship of the Supply class. The units are 174 metres long and displace 19,500 tonnes. They are primarily intended for supplying fuel and other goods at sea....

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More Scotland is hardly possible

More Scotland is hardly possible

Posted by | 19 Jun 2021 | , , , , | 0

A few fair weather clouds drift leisurely across the sky in the north of the UK as Lady Alison Johnstone enters the small speaker's platform. She is President of the Scottish Parliament and godmother of HMS Spey, which is being commissioned on this day. The offshore patrol vessel belongs to the second tranche of the River class, Batch 2, as it is known in the Royal Navy. The Spey was built by BAE Systems in Glasgow, Scotland, as the fifth and final ship in the series. Named after a river that meanders through the Cairngorms National Park around 40 kilometres south of Invergordon, it is now being built in the small harbour town of...

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Fincantieri flanks Daewoo in the design of the South Korean aircraft carriers

Fincantieri flanks Daewoo in the design of the South Korean aircraft carriers

Posted by | 13 Jun 2021 | , , , , | 0

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) will collaborate with Fincantieri on the conceptual design of the new CVX aircraft carrier for the South Korean Navy. The agreement now signed provides for the development of the basic design for the type ship from the second half of 2021, while detailed design and construction are to begin in the following years. Fincantieri will work with DSME to further develop the design for the Trieste, an amphibious transport ship in the LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock) category. Through its subsidiary Seastema and its integrated platform management system (IPMS) SeasNavy, Fincantieri is already cooperating with the East Asian country on the construction of a total of eight Daegu-class frigates...

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Fincantieri celebrates success in Indonesia

Fincantieri celebrates success in Indonesia

Posted by | 11 Jun 2021 | , , , , | 0

The Italian group Fincantieri has been awarded a contract in Indonesia for the delivery of six Fremm frigates, the modernisation and sale of two Maestrale-class frigates and the logistical support associated with both programmes. The modernisation of the two Maestrale-class vessels, which Fincantieri will take over from the Italian Navy after their decommissioning, is to be carried out in Italy. The Indonesian Navy operates two modern Martadinata-class frigates (a Sigma design by Damen Naval Shipbuilding) and five former Van Speijk-class frigates of the Dutch Navy. The larger surface units also include ten corvettes of Dutch and British origin. In addition, there are 14...

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Keel laying for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">The Helder</span>

Keel laying for the The Helder

Posted by | 2 Jun 2021 | , , , | 0

The beleaguered Dutch navy can hope for the arrival of another ship. At the Damen Shipyards shipyard in Romania, the Inspector of the Navy, Vice Admiral Rob Kramer, and the Director of the Defence Material Organisation (DMO), Vice Admiral Arie Jan de Waard, worked together on a part of the future Den Helder to mark the keel laying ceremony. They used welding torches to attach a historic coin from 1822, the year in which the naval arsenal in Den Helder was transferred to the Dutch Navy. Judging by the expressions on the faces of those involved, the operation was crowned with success. The first steel cut has already been...

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