Author Archives: David Arkwright

Despite her brief time in Australia, some maintenance was done on HMS Anson before she was redeployed at short notice. About 600 man-hours of work were completed, and 35 locally manufactured components were fitted, including some made with additive manufacturing.

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BNS Anushandhan, (Ex-HMS Roebuck) seen here arriving in Chittagong. To starboard, the ancient former RN Type 41 frigates, which were transferred in 1978 but have now been scrapped

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HMS Tamar secures to buoys in the port of Cairns, Australia, to allow personnel transfer of FOST staff ahead of an assurance period starting this week. Things of the Past, buoy jumpers!

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Royal Navy demonstrates enduring skill in deterring a Russian undersea operation. BS-64 ‘Podmoskovye’, a special mission submarine based on the Delta-IV

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The U.S. Navy has abandoned plans to return the Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise to active duty. This brings an end to the saga of a still- incomplete major overhaul of the boat, which has lasted more than a decade now. In that time, it has become a poster child for the Navy’s worrisome struggles to tackle huge maintenance backlogs, as well as larger concerns about the availability, or lack thereof, of naval shipyard capacity. in the United States.

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Since her commissioning in 2009, HMS Daring has spent more time out of service than in it. HMS Daring (D32), the first of the Royal Navy’s six Daring-class Type 45 destroyers, is finally set to return to service later this year—after spending nine years undergoing a refit, nearly three times as long as it took to build the warship in the first place. After being out of service for more than 3,300 days, the Royal Navy announced this month that HMS Daring would finally return to the fleet this year. The warship, which only entered service in 2009, has spent more than half of her service life sidelined.

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During a joint exercise in the Indian Ocean in 1983, the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Ambuscade (Type 21) was observed to have sustained damage after a collision with the United States Navy destroyer USS Dale. The ships were conducting joint exercises. Dale was maintaining a steady course (14-18 knots), while Ambuscade was “leapfrogging” the destroyer, leading to the collision and occurred during a multinational operation involving complex coordination between fleets from various countries. The incident was then thoroughly reviewed to understand the factors that influenced the event. The evaluation results provided a crucial basis for improving navigation and communication procedures between ships, while strengthening safety standards in future joint maritime operations.

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