Tiny Egyptian harbour is a transshipment point for Russian oil. Western sanctions apparently make people very inventive. A cargo of around 700,000 barrels of Russian oil, approximately 112,000 tonnes, was delivered to the Egyptian oil terminal El Hamra on the Mediterranean coast in the early morning of 24 July. A few hours later, another ship picked up a...
Lost overboard in the Baltic Sea 19-year-old Seaman Recruit David Spearman, a member of the crew of the USS "Arleigh Burke", died after going overboard off the coast of Finland on 1 August 2022 while the ship was operating in the Baltic Sea. This was announced by the Navy. He...
It is a colourful ship that has been at the disposal of the French Navy for a few weeks now. The rescue and emergency tug Abeille Normandie arrived at German Naval Yards Kiel (GNYK) on 13 September 2021 together with its sister ship Abeille Méditerranée for modernisation work. Over the past few months, both ships have been undergoing...
The lack of investment in the past also affected the regeneration of the tugs. And now it has happened: The "Wangerooge", in service since 1986, can no longer be operated. The tugboat, which was delivered from the Schichau shipyard in Bremerhaven in 1968, was actually due to undergo a final major overhaul at Tamsen Maritim in Rostock....
The world's oldest warship in service celebrates its birthday After almost a decade without an American navy, Congress very reluctantly authorised the construction of six armed frigates in March 1794 as the centrepiece of a new US navy. Under the direction of Joshua Humphries, an experienced shipbuilder, the...
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri announced at the beginning of July that it had handed over the second OPV of the "Musherib" class to the Qatar Ministry of Defence at a ceremony in La Spezia. Like the type ship handed over in January, the "Sheraouh" is a ship that can be flexibly deployed in various roles, from guard boat to combat vessel.
Three years after the sinking of the Norwegian frigate, the final questions have now been answered. As is so often the case, a chain of avoidable mistakes led to the disaster. The Norwegian 5400-tonne frigate HELGE INGSTAD was one of the Scandinavian kingdom's five major naval warships. She was built between 2006 and 2009, mainly at Navantia in northern Spain....
Holiday from the sea by the sea Last weekend, the aircraft carrier USS "Harry S. Truman" (CVN 75) anchored in the bay of Palma de Mallorca near Portixol. Last week, an "F/A-18 Super Hornet" was blown off the ship during a heavy storm. One marine soldier was slightly injured....
It's only a 50-second video, but it gives an insight into winter in the southern hemisphere - in Chile. To be more precise, it is the protective pier of the Valparaíso naval base about 70 kilometres west of the capital Santiago de Chile. Very nice to see on Google Maps with five frigates...
On the morning of 7 July 2022, the Russian frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" (Hull number 454) passed through the Fehmarnbelt. The ship, which belongs to the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, is expected to take part in the Russian Navy's naval parade in Kronstadt/St. Petersburg. Remarkably, the 3D surveillance radar FURKE rotated. This appears to be unusual in that Russian units in the Russian...
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