While a ship sinks on our doorstep, the latest units of the Iranian navy pass the Cape of Good Hope westwards and move into the Atlantic, where no Iranian unit has ever travelled before. The cargo ship Makran, with military deck cargo (seven small FK combat boats) and presumably an ample arsenal of weapons below deck, is...
Due to the rise in steel prices, more and more ships are being given up for demolition worldwide. Over the course of a year, the prices for light displacement tonnes (ldt), i.e. empty ships without supplies, fuel, etc., have almost doubled. Pakistani demolishers are said to have paid 580 dollars per container ship ldt. It is expected that the previous...
In the first week of June, the Brazilian Navy carried out a firing mission off Rio de Janeiro with a cross-section of its unit types. This included firing MM 40 sea skimmers at the Ceara landing ship, which dates back to the 1950s and has long since been decommissioned. How to ignite an MM 40 with words and gestures...
No ship should set sail without a good ship's spirit: The Klabautermann is a goblin who protects the ship. His name is derived from the former name of the ship's carpenter, the Kalfatermann. Calfing is still the name given to the sealing of the ship's planks today. At night, the goblin walks around the ship...
The HANSANDO, which displaces 4500 tonnes, can take up to 300 student officers on board with a crew of 120. In the South Korean navy, the cadets are in their third year of sea training, which they had previously undergone in shifts on board the regular units. The bridge, operations centre, armament and engine rooms are duplicated. The vertical...
The training ships' trips abroad also look very different in times of coronavirus. On 24 August, the training sailing ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO set sail from a quarantine zone in the port of Cadiz in south-west Spain on its 93rd training voyage. The special thing about it was that it was not only the fifth circumnavigation of the almost hundred-year-old...
The 350 or so Chinese fishing vessels and factory ships off the Chilean coast this summer have once again put it in a nutshell: Maritime Domain Awareness! As is customary in other countries, the protection of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is also part of the navy's portfolio - in cooperation with other state institutions and...
High noon, 20th October, Magellan Strait in rocky Tierra del Fuego. At one of the narrowest points in the channel, two sail training ships meet that could be sister ships. Both topsail schooners, the Chilean Esmeralda and the Spanish Juan Sebastian De Elcano, originally come from the naval stronghold of Cadiz. The Chilean ship is a replica that was actually built for...
Modern and innovative - After project planning and many years of production, the testing period for the "Baden-Württemberg" began in April of this year with the first sea voyage, the so-called shipyard test voyage, and thus the proof of the required performance capability began. At the end of the two-year process, the declaration of usability of the frigate "Baden-Württemberg" will be...
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