Spanish Guardia Civil patrol boat Rio Belelle, M55, messing about in Gibraltar waters, ran into a runway landing light stanchion. That will be a weeks No. 9’s.

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Docks UK has officially taken over global support of HMS Tamar, HMS Spey, HMS Medway, HMS Trent and HMS Forth in addition to their existing contract for HMS Protector. The 8-year, £250m contract will see the company work in partnership with overseas shipyards to oversee maintenance of these forward-deployed ships.

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Ukrainian minehunters 🇺🇦UNS Cherkasy and Chernihiv to be based in Portsmouth for the foreseeable future and will exercise with RN and USN. They currently cannot enter the Black Sea due to the terms of the Montreux Convention but are being prepared for post-war mine clearance operations.

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On this day 100 years ago in 1924, the Battlecruiser HMAS Australia was scuttled off Sydney under the conditions of the Washington Treaty which required the British Empire to disarm. She served in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres during WW1 and was famously mutinied in 1919

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USS Truxtun (DDG 103) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into Boston, Massachusetts – March 14, 2024

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Work ongoing for UK nuclear sub to operate from Australia – As part of AUKUS, the UK and U.S. are establishing a rotational presence of one Astute class submarine and up to four Virginia class submarines in Australia by 2027.

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