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“Attention, here’s the commander of patrol vessel POLLUX. Our ship collided with a windmill. The ship has suffered serious damage but can still sail on an independent basis. There are several injured people on board and drowning people at sea. The emergency services have been alerted. Try to keep your composure.” Fortunately, this was not a reality but just the…
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Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) participated in Norwegian maritime exercise Arctic Dolphin 2022 in the North Sea from Feb. 7-18. The exercise was designed to facilitate the Submarine Commander Course (SMCC), which tests, assesses, and qualifies potential new submarine commanding officers. Submarines and surface units from Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands joined SNMG1 for the exercise to strengthen interoperability…
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February 26, 2021 – Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Mersey has tracked the movements of a surfaced Russian submarine as it sailed through waters close to the UK. The River-class offshore patrol vessel was on watch as the Kilo-class diesel powered attack submarine RFS Rostov Na Donu sailed through wintry seas in the North Sea and English Channel on its…
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October 12, 2020 (Google Translation) – As part of the planned combat training missions in the Baltic Fleet’s area of responsibility, the crews of the Stoyky and Steregushchy corvettes performed simulated missile launches in the North Sea. In the water area of the North Sea, a tactical group consisting of the Steregushchiy and Stoyky corvettes successfully carried out electronic missile…
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September 29, 2020 (Google Translation) – HNLMS Zierikzee detonated an old airplane bomb in the North Sea this afternoon. That happened about 50 kilometers west of Rotterdam. Clearance of the explosive was given a high priority because the missile was at a point where ships often anchor. If the bomb were hit, it would have had major consequences. The clearance…
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March 26, 2020 (Google Translation) – The Steregushchy corvette and the Kola tanker returned to the main fleet base after completing missions in the North Sea. The vice-commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vice Admiral Sergey Eliseev, representatives of the fleet’s surface ships, relatives and friends of the Baltic sailors took part in the ceremony of meeting the ships in Baltiysk.…
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March 26, 2020 – As the Royal Navy prepares to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the response to the coronavirus outbreak, nine British ships have been shadowing seven Russian vessels in waters around the UK. The Navy has completed a concentrated operation to shadow the Russian warships after unusually high levels of activity in the English…
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March 23, 2020 – French carrier strike group and its flagship, the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, trained with the Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) for four days last week. Their combined exercises ran between 19-22 March bringing together warships from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom on the east coast of Denmark. Naval…
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NOTE: Since this was written, BNS Leopold I has left the group over COVID-19 March 20, 2020 (Google Translation) – Almost two months after the departure of the Foch mission from Toulon, the carrier strike group formed into Task Force 473 made a stopover in Brest, the city which saw the birth of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. After…
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