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HMS Queen Elizabeth Enters Middle East After Suez Canal Transit; Carrier Eisenhower Now in Atlantic
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R06) transiting the Suez Canal on July 6, 2021. Royal Navy Photo
British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) and its escorts are now operating in the Red Sea after transiting the Suez Canal on Tuesday, according to U.K. officials.
The carrier passed through the canal as part of the 28-week maiden deployment of the carrier with an air wing made up of both Royal Air Force and U.S. Marine F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters, the strike group announced.
The escorts...
Warships HMS Defender, HNLM Evertsen Leave Black Sea
HMS Defender (right) and HMNLS Evertsen (left) leaving the Black Sea on July 2, 2021. Photo by Yörük Işık used with permission
Two NATO warships have left the Black Sea after operating for 18 days of exercises in the region, according to ship spotters in Turkey.
British guided-missile destroyer HMS Defender (D63) and the Dutch frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) transited south through the Bosphorus toward the Mediterranean, according to photos shared with USNI News.
The two ships, assigned to the HMS...
https://news.usni.org/2021/07/02/warships-hms-defender-hnlm-evertsen-leave-black-sea
More NATO Ships Enter Black Sea While Tensions With Russia Simmer
ITS Fasan, SNMG2 flagship cross under Istanbul strait on July 1, 2021. NATO Photo
The flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 entered the Black Sea on Thursday with two more alliance warships set to join the Sea Breeze exercises that started earlier this week, NATO announced.
Frigate ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) passed through the Bosphorus headed for the Black Sea with a Turkish frigate and will join with a Romanian warship, according to ship spotters in Turkey.
“During [Fasan’s] deployment in...
https://news.usni.org/2021/07/01/more-nato-ships-enter-black-sea-while-tensions-with-russia-simmer
U.K. MoD Denies Russians Fired Warning Shots, Dropped Bombs Near Warship During Black Sea Transit
U.K. warship HMS Defender entering the Black Sea on June 14, 2021. Photo by Yörük Işık used with permission
Russian fighters and warships did not fire warning shots or drop bombs to warn off U.K. warship HMS Defender (D36) operating in the Black Sea, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said in a Wednesday statement to USNI News.
“This morning, HMS Defender carried out a routine transit from Odessa towards Georgia across the Black Sea,” said U.K. MoD head Ben Wallace in the statement.
“As is normal for...
Positions of Two NATO Ships Were Falsified Near Russian Black Sea Naval Base
USNI News Illustration
The tracking data of two NATO warships was faked off the coast of a Russian controlled naval base in the Black Sea while the actual ships were moored 180 miles away, USNI News has learned.
The U.K. Royal Navy’s HMS Defender, a Type-45 Daring-class destroyer, and the Royal Netherlands Navy’s HNLMS Evertsen, a De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate, pulled into Odessa in Ukraine on June 18. The group had been monitored by Russian warships while exercising in the Black Sea,...
Destroyer USS Laboon Enters the Black Sea
USS Laboon (DDG-58) enters Black Sea on June 11, 2021. Photo by Yörük Işık used with permission
A guided-missile destroyer attached to the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is now operating in the Black Sea, according to ship spotters.
USS Laboon (DDG-58) entered the Black Sea on Friday in concert with a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon and a NATO E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), U.S. 6th Fleet said in a statement.
Russia’s National Defense Control Center told Tass on Friday the...
https://news.usni.org/2021/06/11/destroyer-uss-laboon-enters-the-black-sea
COVID-19 forces National Steel Car plant to suspend manufacturing operations
A Canadian facility of National Steel Car, a rail parts and freight car manufacturer, has been temporarily closed because of an outbreak of COVID-19.
A release last week said National Steel Car, in consultation with the public health department in Hamilton, Ontario, decided to extend a suspension of manufacturing operations for another week. The company now plans to resume operations on May 17.
“National Steel Car is continually monitoring the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and related developments....
Russia Tracking First U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Visit to the Black Sea in 12 Years
USS Hamilton (WMSL-753) transited Bosphorus towards the Black Sea on April 27, 2021. Photo by Yörük Işık used with permission
A Coast Guard Cutter is now in the Black Sea, a first for the service since 2008, U.S. 6th fleet said in a Tuesday statement.
Legend-class National Security Cutter USS Hamilton (WMSL-753) passed through the Bosphorus strait in support of NATO operations in the region.
“The last U.S. Coast Guard Cutter to visit the Black Sea, USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) sailed to the Black Sea...
Photos, videos of Bermuda Executive Forum New York
Michael Bloomberg and Brian Duperreault highlighted Bermuda’s value to global business and the US in a public chat with Premier David Burt at the forum
Hamilton, Bermuda, March 29, 2019: Close to 350 executives and investors heard the unique business advantages and opportunities offered by Bermuda during a successful Executive Forum hosted in New York last week by the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA).
More than 40 speakers from Bermuda’s government, industry and regulator outlined global...
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