Author Archives: David Arkwright

ROS Căpitan Constantin Dumitrescu (Ex-HMS Pembroke) arrived in Portsmouth today after leaving Rosyth this week following conversion / maintenance work by Babcock and FOST training with RN. Will sail for her new home in Black Sea soon. Romanian warships are permitted to transit the Bosphorus under Montreux Convention rules as not at war, unlike Russian & Ukrainian vessels.

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General Dynamics Bath Iron Works watched a powerful milestone as the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer—future USS Louis H. Wilson Jr (DDG 126) was christened on the drydock.

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French Navy Frégate de Défense et d’Intervention (Defence and Intervention Frigate) FS Amiral Ronarc’h (D660) being commissioned last week in Lorient, France – September 15, 2025

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Soviet freighter SS Bratstvo was holed in a collision with the Victor I-class submarine K-53. K-53 suffered a severely damaged bow and had to go to Tunisia for urgent repairs. Sep 18 1984. On this day, (Sep 18) in 1984, the crew of the Soviet freighter SS Bratstvo was forced to abandon ship in the Strait of Gibraltar due to flooding. The crew initially believed that there had been an explosion in the engine room, but it was soon learned that Bratstvo had been holed in a collision with the Victor I-class submarine K-53. K-53 suffered a severely damaged bow and had to go to Tunisia for urgent repairs. Bratstvo was towed to Spain, where it was scrapped.

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