The Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent has seized cocaine shipments worth £204 million (US$254 million) during a recent nighttime interception in the Caribbean Sea, the navy confirmed late last week. The ship has seized £511 million (US$638 million) worth of narcotics across five...
The US Navy took delivery of a new John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler (T-AO) on Tuesday, May 7. The delivery of USNS Earl Warren follows the successful completion of integrated sea trials to test the readiness and capability of the ship and to validate requirements. The John Lewis-class...
The US Navy christened its newest unmanned surface vessel (USV) during a recent ceremony in Mobile, Alabama. Built jointly by Austal USA and L3Harris Technologies, Vanguard is the US Navy’s first USV purpose-built from the keel up for unmanned operations and is part of the Overlord program...
The US Navy christened the future Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base (ESB) USS Robert E. Simanek in a ceremony in San Diego, California, on Saturday, May 4. The fifth Lewis B. Puller-class ESB to be built for the US Navy honours the late Private First Class Robert E. Simanek, a US Marine...
US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has confirmed that the US Navy’s fifth America-class amphibious assault ship (LHA) will be named USS Helmand Province. The LHA commemorates the multiple US Marine Corps operations that took place in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province as part of Operation...
Annapolis, Maryland-based Ocean Craft Marine (OCM) has handed over a new search and rescue (SAR) boat to the Suamico Fire Department in eastern Wisconsin. The rigid inflatable boat (RIB) has a length of 26 feet (eight metres) and features OCM’s proprietary high-performance, concave reverse-chine...
WORK BOAT WORLD: Dennis Tetzlaff will take over as the new Chief Operating Officer Fleet of Stena Line in addition to becoming part of the group’s management team. Tetzlaff worked in various professions within the shipping and cruise industry over the past two decades. Most recently, he comes from...
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has delivered the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS New Jersey to the US Navy. The submarine is the eleventh Virginia-class boat delivered by NNS, and the 23rd built as part of the teaming agreement with General Dynamics...
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have resumed their attacks against shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden following a lull of more than two weeks, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed. CENTCOM said in an update via X (formerly Twitter) that, at 11:51 local time on Wednesday, April 24,...
The US Coast Guard commissioned its newest Legend-class national security cutter (NSC) during a commissioning ceremony at Coast Guard Base Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, April 20. USCGC Calhoun is the tenth Legend-class cutter to join the coast guard and is the fourth NSC to be homeported...