HMS Spey is currently conducting the UK’s 12th surveillance patrol since 2018 in support of UN sanctions against North Korea. This is to prevent imports of materials for use in weapons of mass destruction including by illicit ship-to-ship transfers. Photo: @HNlEHupY4Nr6hRM outbound from Yokosuka after a short period in dry dock. In response to illegal maritime activities, including ship-to-ship transfers of North Korean-flagged vessels, which are prohibited by UN Security Council resolutions, HMS Spey conducted a vigilant surveillance activity in the waters around Japan from mid to late June.

 

USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) conducts bilateral operations with HMCS Montreal (FFH 336) in the South China Sea. June 18, 2024

 

HMS Kent cold moved into the basin at the Frigate Support Centre in Devonport to begin the engine upgrade and upkeep period today. HMS Westminster laying dormant along the wall.

 

ENS Ugandi (ex HMS Bridport), UNS Cherkasy (ex HMS Shoreham) and FGS Donau (A516) heading down the Clyde this afternoon. Outbound from Glasgow to begin NATO exercise.

 

Amphib Boxer is soon to be sidelined again for 18 months of maintenance. Although the Navy says it will be able to fix the amphibious assault ship Boxer’s (LHD-4) rudder issues pier side, the service is now planning for the problem-ridden ship to be docked for at least 18 months starting next spring. The service announced its intentions on the government’s contracting website, SAM.gov, in a May 17 solicitation seeking out contractors capable of conducting a maintenance availability on Boxer beginning in April 2025 and scheduled to end in October 2026.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/amphib-boxer-soon-to-be-sidelined-again-for-18-months-of-maintenance/

USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier passing Seattle coming back into Bremerton, Washington after sea trials - June 23, 2024.

 

HMS Montrose returning to Devonport Naval Base after her 7 month deployment in 2014.

 

German Navy Type 332 minehunter with drones (MHCD) FGS Grömitz (M1064) in Malaga, Spain - June 23, 2024

 

PPA Raimondo Montecuccoli arrived at Pearl Harbour on her 6 month global tour to the Indo-Pacific region, on 23rd June.

 

JMSF 3rd Taigei class attack submarine JS Jingei (Swift Whale) (SS-515).

 

The Merlin is from 829 Naval Air Squadron based at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose. 01 Flight embarked in HMS St Albans. This was the first Winch Transfer to an Astute Class Submarine, HMS Ambush.

 

German Navy Berlin-class replenishment oiler FGS Frankfurt am Main (A1412) southbound in the Gatun Locks on the Panama Canal - June 1, 2024.

 

Current Google Earth image of Port Hueneme, California showing the prototype Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) which recently completed full-scale testing off the coast of California

 

Decommissioned USS Dubuque (LPD-8) Austin-class amphibious transport dock being towed out of Bremerton, Washington by USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) Safeguard-class salvage ship - possible SINKEX target for RIMPAC? - June 22, 2024

 

USS Idaho Commissioning Committee released this photo of the rollout of SSN 799 June 21 at Electric Boat in Groton.

 

RFA Tiderace out of maintenance period Cammell Laird appears to have been concluded. Whether there is a crew available to take her back to sea is another matter!

 

Blackwood class HMS Palliser, alongside the wharf, Briton Ferry waiting to be broken up in 1983.

 

One of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Anzac-class frigates, HMNZS Te Kaha, returned to Wellington after 9 years.

 

US Navy survey ship USS Maury (AGS-16), at anchor, in Mekong Delta, Vietnam, April 1967.

 

Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) leaving from Philadelphia Naval Yard drydock heading back to her home in Camden, New Jersey - June 20, 2024.

 

Estonian Navy Sandown-class minehunter ENS Ugandi (M315) (ex HMS Bridport) coming into Glasgow, Scotland - June 21, 2024.

 

HMS Tamar (Center) rafted up with submarine tender USS Emory S Land and HMAS Leeuwin in Cairns to test logistic support capabilities. The Emory S Land is primarily designed to provide stores, fuel and engineering support to submarines but could potentially do the same for surface ships in the Pacific region.

 

Romanian Navy Type 22 multipurpose frigate (Ex-HMS London) ROS Regina Maria (F222) northbound in the Bosphorus - June 20, 2024.

 

USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ship in Kiel, Germany - June 20, 2024.

 

Argentine Navy is ready to buy second-hand European submarines !

 

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) departing Bremerton, WA, was passing the Washington State Ferry M/V Walla Walla (Super Jumbo Ferry). Not so "Super Jumbo" next to the massive Navy "Super Carrier"!

 

The latest drug bust in the West Indies. 1.2 tons of cocaine seized in the south of Martinique by Dumont d'Urville Marine Nationale.

 

In UK Naval Bases sailors get to ships at sea via a PAS Boat. Named after the Port Auxiliary Service which ran the service until 1976 the service is now provided by Serco Group. Sailors still call them PAS boats and in HMNB Devonport they usually bear the FOST name Seariders.

 

On this day in 1982, HMS Illustrious became the first Royal Navy warship to be commissioned at sea, on her way to HMNB Portsmouth from the builders where she had been rushed through to relieve HMS Invincible was providing air cover to the Falklands after the war, arriving in late August.

 

HMS Richmond seen heading back into HMNB Clyde (Faslane), on Gare Loch.

 

German U-Boat U 534 was raised from the sea bed in 1996, and the wreck and the artefacts, including an enigma machine, were saved. U-534 was attacked and sunk by two Royal Air Force Liberator bombers in the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden on 5 May 1945. Discovered by a Danish wreck diver in 1986 and raised from the seabed by a Dutch salvage company in 1993, she later was moved to Birkenhead, England, where she became a star exhibit at the Warship Preservation Trust’s Birkenhead Docks Museum.

 

HMS Iron Duke passing HNLMS Van Amstel during FOST (Flag officer Sea Training) serials south of Plymouth Breakwater yesterday.

 

USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) Moored on USS Patoka (AO-9) during 1924.

 

Valiant Shield (VS) 2024 conducted a sinking exercise (SINKEX) with the environmentally clean decommissioned hulk of the Austin-class amphibious transport dock, ex-USS Cleveland (LPD-7) more than 40 nautical miles from land in the North Pacific Ocean. A SINKEX generally involves air, surface, and undersea military units conducting live-fire training against a physical target.

 

P2000 HMS Trumpeter and HMS Dasher sailed into Paris last week to celebrate the anniversary of the long-standing agreement between the UK and France. It is the Royal Navy's first visit to the French capital in 20 years.

 

US Navy fast-attack submarine USS Helena happend to visit American base on Cuba, at Guantanamo Bay. At the same time as Russian Navy visits Havana, including a guided-missile submarine & hypersonic missile-armed frigate. What are the chances? Routine and pre-planned, apparently.

 

The Armada Uruguay has taken command of their newly transferred fast attack craft ROU Huracán at Busan Naval Base in South Korea. The vessel, formerly the PKM 318 in ROK_Navy, was officially decommissioned in 2021 and announced its donation to Uruguay in July 2022.

 

PH, US, Japan, and Canada sail WPS as China’s ‘scare tactics’ kick in.