In UK Naval Bases sailors get to ships at sea via a PAS Boat. Named after the Port Auxiliary Service which ran the service until 1976 the service is now provided by Serco Group. Sailors still call them PAS boats and in HMNB Devonport they usually bear the FOST name Seariders.

 

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On this day in 1982, HMS Illustrious became the first Royal Navy warship to be commissioned at sea, on her way to HMNB Portsmouth from the builders where she had been rushed through to relieve HMS Invincible was providing air cover to the Falklands after the war, arriving in late August.

German U-Boat U 534 was raised from the sea bed in 1996, and the wreck and the artefacts, including an enigma machine, were saved. U-534 was attacked and sunk by two Royal Air Force Liberator bombers in the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden on 5 May 1945. Discovered by a Danish wreck diver in 1986 and raised from the seabed by a Dutch salvage company in 1993, she later was moved to Birkenhead, England, where she became a star exhibit at the Warship Preservation Trust’s Birkenhead Docks Museum.

 

 

 

 

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HMS Iron Duke passing HNLMS Van Amstel during FOST (Flag officer Sea Training) serials south of Plymouth Breakwater yesterday.

 

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Valiant Shield (VS) 2024 conducted a sinking exercise (SINKEX) with the environmentally clean decommissioned hulk of the Austin-class amphibious transport dock, ex-USS Cleveland (LPD-7) more than 40 nautical miles from land in the North Pacific Ocean. A SINKEX generally involves air, surface, and undersea military units conducting live-fire training against a physical target.

 

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P2000 HMS Trumpeter and HMS Dasher sailed into Paris last week to celebrate the anniversary of the long-standing agreement between the UK and France. It is the Royal Navy’s first visit to the French capital in 20 years.

 

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US Navy fast-attack submarine USS Helena happend to visit American base on Cuba, at Guantanamo Bay. At the same time as Russian Navy visits Havana, including a guided-missile submarine & hypersonic missile-armed frigate. What are the chances? Routine and pre-planned, apparently.

 

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The Armada Uruguay has taken command of their newly transferred fast attack craft ROU Huracán at Busan Naval Base in South Korea. The vessel, formerly the PKM 318 in ROK_Navy, was officially decommissioned in 2021 and announced its donation to Uruguay in July 2022.

 

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