40 Years of The 42
ON a winter day in 1975 tugs busied themselves around a new arrival at the Royal Navy dockyard in Portsmouth. The subject of their...
Are Bays The Way? One From The Archives
NEWS that the Royal Fleet Auxilliary ship RFA Lyme Bay is about to take part in humanitarian relief operations in Dominica jogged my...
RFA To The Rescue
BRITAIN is sending one of the most capable ships in its fleet to help the storm-ravaged Caribbean country of Dominica. Latest reports say...
SHIP PROFILE: HARRY DE WOLF CLASS ARCTIC/OFFSHORE PATROL SHIP
Building work has begun on the first of six new patrol ships for the Royal Canadian Navy. Combining the roles of traditional Offshore...
SEVERN PROVES CARIBBEAN PATROL ROLE
ROYAL NAVY Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS SEVERN is to return to her base in Portsmouth after an eight-month deployment to the Caribbean. The...
THE FRIGHTENING FACE OF LOW-TECH WAR
THE video at the bottom of this post should shock you. It isn’t that it is graphic, through the host does like to swear a bit. It is...
UK MARITIME PATROL: COULD KAWASAKI HAVE CRACKED IT?
POLITICIANS will be politicians, often saying what they mean in a roundabout way. When British Prime Minister David Cameron this week...
WEARSIDE WARTIME RECORD BREAKER RESCUE
IT was supposed to be a secret mission. It ended with two warships stuck on rocks and one of the biggest rescue operations ever seen. The...
HMS CORNWALL: A DIGNIFIED END?
AUCTIONED to the highest bidder, dragged by tug thousands of miles, beached then ripped to pieces on oil soaked sands. It is sadly a fate...
Ship Profile: Iceland Coast Guard Vessel Thor
ICELAND perfected the use of the Offshore Patrol Vessel during the “Cod Wars” with Britain in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. They were a...
