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Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC), along with NASSCO-Norfolk, the ship’s crew and hundreds of ship builders in Hampton Roads, delivered the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) after a 16-month Planned Maintenance Availability Jan. 19, two days ahead of schedule. The 16-month project included an extensive boiler inspection; a comprehensive flush and restoration of the ship’s Collection, Holding and…
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The Royal Navy has dealt its second multi-million-pound blow to drug traffickers in the Middle East in days. More than one tonne of illegal narcotics was captured by HMS Montrose – over £8m of drugs on the back of a £15m haul just a few days ago. In a nine-hour operation in the Gulf of Oman, the ship’s boarding team…
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Detachments of warships of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) returned to the points of permanent basing of the Crimean and Novorossiysk naval bases of the fleet after conducting exercises in the Black Sea. In the naval training grounds, the crews of ships as part of heterogeneous and homogeneous tactical groups performed training and combat tasks for conducting a sea battle,…
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The keel for the future USS Harrisburg (LPD 30), the Navy’s 14th San Antonio class-amphibious transport dock ship and the first Flight II ship, was laid at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding, Jan. 28. A keel laying is the recognition of the start of a ship’s construction. It is the joining together of a ship’s modular components and the…
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Sailors from HMS Forth raised the Union Flag on the site of the first British settlement in the Falklands – replacing one battered by the fierce South Atlantic elements. The bleak, remote settlement of Port Egmont was inhabited for less than a decade and abandoned nearly 250 years ago. But the site is marked to this day with the Union…
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KAEFER UK and Ireland has secured a long-term, £22m contract with Babcock to provide technical surface protection to the Royal Navy’s newest frigate, the Type 31. The shipbuilding program which will continue until 2028, brings continuity of work for KAEFER’s existing industrial services workforce at Babcock’s Rosyth facilities, with new employment opportunities and prosperity for the local economy. KAEFER will…
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MAN Energy Solutions has announced the delivery of four engines – 2 × MAN 12V32/44CR engines (2 × 7,200 kW) + 2 × MAN 8L32/44CR engines (2 × 4,800 kW) – bound for a BRF (naval supply vessel) set to enter service in early 2023. The BRF is the first in a series of four such vessels, the contract for…
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The keel for the future USNS Cody, Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship (EPF 14), the first of the Spearhead-class EPF Flight II configuration, was laid at Austal USA, Jan. 26. A keel laying is the recognition of the start of a ship’s construction. It is the joining together of a ship’s modular components and the authentication or etching of an honoree’s…
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The Coast Guard held a memorial service for the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collision at the Blackthorn Memorial site in St. Petersburg, Florida January 28th. The memorial marked the 42nd anniversary of the Blackthorn colliding with the tanker vessel Capricorn near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on Jan. 28, 1980, resulting in the deaths of 23 of the 50 Blackthorn crewmembers.…
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