JUST before 6.00am on July 11 last year, 98 containers holding munitions at Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari exploded. Thirteen fire fighters and sailors were killed and 60 others were injured. A sonic boom from the explosion hit and severely damaged the nearby Vassilikos power plant, which generated over half of the island’s electricity. […]
By CHESTER DAWSON Reuters A Japanese Coast Guard ship, center, earlier this week attempts to stop a Taiwan Coast Guard ship as it escorts a Taiwanese fishing boat near the disputed East China Sea islets called Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyutai in China and Tiaoyutai in Taiwan. TOKYO—Japan’s prime minister said the national government is considering […]
Gowind® offshore patrol vessel L’Adroit returned to her homeport of Toulon on 29 June 2012 after a two-month mission in the Mediterranean. DCNS has made the ship available to the French Navy for three years. The client Navies, in turn, is using the ship primarily for government missions at sea. During this fisheries protection and […]
Artist concept of the Australian Canberra Class LHD. Image: BAE Systems Australia The second Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) HMAS Adelaide ship was launched at the Navantia Ferrol-Fene shipyard in Spain. According to Navantia, this milestone was achieved four and half months ahead of schedule. This early launch provides additional time, until early 2014, to complete […]
ITS SCIROCCO assists Tug, July 2012 On the afternoon of July 4, in the rough seas of the Gulf of Aden, EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Italian Frigate Scirocco rescued a Comoros flagged supply vessel which had been adrift and in total black out for more than 13 hours. The entire operation lasted in excess […]
On the afternoon of July 4, in the rough seas of the Gulf of Aden, EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Italian Frigate Scirocco rescued a Comoros flagged supply vessel which had been adrift and in total black out for more than 13 hours. The entire operation lasted in excess of 24 hours and was conducted […]
THE COMMANDER of a Plymouth warship has issued a stark warning to pirates operating in the Middle East, writes Rebecca Ricks. HMS Sutherland’s Commander, Al Wilson, spoke to The Herald yesterday as his ship sailed for the notorious waters around the Horn of Africa. He said there was a “very clear message” that piracy would […]
Published on July 6, 2012 by Mark Lowe · No Comments Al Wilson, the Commander of HMS Sutherland, has issued a stark warning to pirates operating in the Middle East that piracy would not be tolerated by his ship, crew or other maritime forces and that tactics included destroying and confiscating any pirate paraphernalia. Stark warning to pirates […]
India has received the first of three Stealth Talwar frigates it ordered from Russia six years ago. The 4,000 ton P-17 project Talwar’s are 124.5 meter (386 feet) long, carry 24 anti-aircraft and eight anti-ship missiles, four torpedo tubes, as well as a 100mm gun, short range anti-missile guns, a helicopter, and anti-submarine weapons (depth charges and […]
Accidents on ships are mainly a result of unsafe practices that are followed by the ship’s crew. Many a times, while working on ships, we are aware that a particular action, which is being taken by us, is unsafe and yet we neglect our conscience and carry on with the same. Blame it on negligence, […]