Author Archives: David Arkwright

The Coast Guard announced Wednesday that wreckage of the USCGC Tampa was found about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom,by a British diving team at a depth exceeding 300 feet (90 meters) deep in the Atlantic Ocean.

https://seawaves.com/wreckage-of-uscgc-tampa-discovered-off-cornwall-uk/  via Blogger https://ift.tt/62HdjhZ 2026-05-13T16:37:38+01:00

Markings on hull of Ex HMS Northumberland (in Fareham creek awaiting scrapping) indicating plate thickness and clear demonstration of why so many of the Type 23 frigates are becoming beyond economic repair.

  via Blogger https://ift.tt/wEbKsqj 2026-05-13T08:47:47+01:00

Critical moment during the 1982 Falklands War, showing the Type 21 frigate HMS Arrow (F173) (left) coming alongside the stricken Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) (right) to assist, after being struck by an Exocet missile. HMS Sheffield sank six days later while being towed, becoming the first Royal Navy vessel lost in action since World War II.

  via Blogger https://ift.tt/PV4NbfB 2026-05-12T16:56:48+01:00

Ex-HMS Bulwark to be renamed NDM Oiapoque for further service with the Brazilian Navy – new pennant number G350 applied in Devonport this week.

    HMS Ocean (background) and HMS Bulwark during Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) (JEF(M)) in the Mediterranean. 2016, both were transferred to the Brazilian Navy. via Blogger https://ift.tt/uMQrmas 2026-05-11T09:49:42+01:00