Sharp-eyed sailors aboard a Royal Navy minehunter have found an unknown shipwreck on one of the world’s busiest tanker routes. The crew of HMS Shoreham were practising using the ship’s hi-tech sonar suite off the coast of Abu Dhabi when Able Seaman Tash Kennedy picked up an unexpected contact on the display in the minehunter’s […]
GC Rieber Shipping has entered into an agreement with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on the sale of the in house designed ice-breaker “HMS Protector”. This vessel has been on a bareboat charter to the buyer since the spring of 2011. The sale provides GC Rieber Shipping with an accounting gain of about NOK 370 million, while the […]
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HMS Echo used her sophisticated sonar equipment to map unseen wrecks, reefs and rocks off the Libyan coast and make navigation less hazardous. Significant discoveries included a number of uncharted wrecks in shipping lanes which could have posed a danger to vessels. The operation was the ship’s second visit to Libya following a successful trip […]
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HMS Protector, the Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship, returned home to Portsmouth today (Friday May 10) marking an end to her nine month deployment to the ‘Frozen Continent’. HMS Protector deployed from Portsmouth on September 17 2012 and passaged south via St Helena, Simon’s Town in South Africa and Tristan da Cunha before arriving in […]
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Captain Ken McIntosh and Major Dave Stone have taken part in a very different act of remembrance. While visiting Malta, the pair carried out a dive to the wreck of HMS Maori and attached a Royal British Legion Memorial Cross to the ship. HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer in the Mediterranean Fleet and was […]
Plymouth-based HMS Echo has just completed a 19-month deployment in the Far East. David Daniel A&P Falmouth Commercial Director: “We are very familiar with HMS Echo, having carried out her previous refit five years ago and it’s great to have her back. We will carry out survey and maintenance works and upgrade of ship systems […]
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HMS Enterprise has sailed from Falmouth in Cornwall to the Middle East for nine months on operations. The survey ship will be protecting the nation’s interests and contributing to the safety of military and civilian shipping while deployed. While the ship’s primary tasking is military data-gathering she will also act as a deterrent to illegal […]
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Encrusted with seven decades of marine life, this is the evocative sight of the bell of one of the Navy’s greatest 20th-Century warships: the mighty Hood. The ambitious mission to recover the symbol of the battle-cruiser, which lies on the bottom of the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, resumed after the first attempt a […]
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The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo returns home to the HM Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth, today (16 August) after a 19 month deployment. The ship has been away for 593 days with 421 actually at sea and has sailed about 74,000 miles – 2.5 times around the equator. The ship made 24 stops in […]
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Survey ship HMS Echo has discovered an underwater mountain the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has she sailed through poorly-mapped waters in the Red Sea. The ship came across the huge feature while searching for volcanoes on the seabed – and also located a WW2 wreck off the Libyan coast as her 19-month deployment […]
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