Author Archives: David Arkwright

RN MTXG ZULU Sqn has completed accuracy trials on their Seacat UUV, confirming the sensor performance needed for modern mine warfare. Seacat has been deployed on RFA Lyme Bay for possible Mine warfare operations in the Middle East.

RN MTXG ZULU Sqn have completed accuracy trials on their Seacat UUV, confirming the sensor performance needed for modern mine warfare.Seacat has been deployed onRFA Lyme Bay for possible Mine warfare operations in the Middle East.

HMS Montrose, a Duke Class (Type 23) warship under tow departing Portsmouth for the breakers. Decommissioned in 2023 and laid up in Fareham Creek, Portsmouth Harbour, she is headed for scrapping in Turkey. And HMS Montrose returning to her home base of Devonport, Plymouth, for the last time, in December 2022.

PLAN destroyer 112 Harbin was commissioned into service in May 1994 as the nation’s first warship with gas turbine propulsion. As she enters the twilight of her career, an album commemorates her 30 years of service, during which she witnessed an extraordinary era of naval development.

Argentine Navy Gowind-class patrol vessel ARA Bartolomé Cordero (P-54), Intrépida-class fast attack craft ARA Indómita (P-86), and Baradero-class patrol boats ARA Baradero (P-61) and ARA Clorinda (P-63) in Puerto Williams, Chile – August 26, 2026 SRC: FB- Armada Argentina – Gaceta Marinera

U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of its newest Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base, USS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. (ESB-8), from General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, on August 25. The vessel’s keel was laid at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, California on April 25, 2024, and she was christened on March 7 this year.ESBs are highly flexible mobile sea-based platforms designed to support a variety of maritime-based missions, and are a part of the critical access infrastructure that supports the deployment of forces, equipment, supplies, and warfighting capabilities.

This is a section of boat 2, HMS Valiant, being moved to the Central Yard facility. HMS Dreadnought units are all now in the Devonshire Dock Hall.A section of a Dreadnought Submarine moving through Barrow-in-Furness. When they enter service, the class will be the largest submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy.

Type 31 frigate programme update at Rosyth dock. Titles are generated by AI from MetaType 31 frigate programme – work continues on fitting out HMS Venturer in number 3 dry dock at Rosyth. In July, HMS Active was moved into number 1 dry dock in Rosyth (stern-first) to begin fitting out.HMS Formidable and HMS Bulldog are under construction in the build hall.