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Royal Navy warship HMS Tyne will visit Newcastle for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend – and will be open to visitors. The patrol ship will berth in the heart of Newcastle at Spillers Wharf – after sailing her namesake River Tyne for the first time in ten years – for five days from the evening of Tuesday 31 May. The…
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November 20, 2020 – The Royal Navy has kept close watch as four Russian ships sheltered from rough weather in the seas off the east coast of Scotland. Patrol ship HMS Tyne monitored two warships and an intelligence gathering vessel as they carried out replenishment operations with their supporting tanker. The Russian Navy ships sailed into the Moray Firth to…
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July 22, 2020 – Royal Navy fishery patrol vessels have shadowed a surfaced Russian submarine as it passed through the waters close to the UK. HMS Tyne and HMS Mersey watched every movement of the Kilo-class submarine, Krasnodar, after picking up monitoring duties from French light frigate FS Enseigne de Vaisseau Jacoubet off the coast of Ushant Island in Brittany…
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June 21, 2020 – Royal Navy warship HMS Westminster shadowed a Russian destroyer through the English Channel. Portsmouth-based HMS Westminster, along with patrol ship HMS Tyne, monitored the passage of the Russian warship Vitse-Admiral Kulakov as it passed south through the English Channel. Commander Will Paston, the Commanding Officer of HMS Westminster, said: “The Royal Navy routinely monitors the passage…
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June 17, 2020 – HMS Tyne have completed two days of training with LÉ George Bernard Shaw from the Irish Defence Force in the Celtic Sea. The exercises strengthened ties between the navies, as the two patrol vessels worked together on navigation skills and carried out a transfer of supplies from one ship to another. “This was a great opportunity…
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