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HMS Lancaster has intercepted two boats within 24 hours carrying a total of £33 million worth of heroin, hashish and crystal meth. Drugs were seized by the ship’s boarding teams while operating in the Gulf of Oman.
Powerful laser to be installed on Royal Navy warships by 2027.
The 11th of April was National Submarine Day, marking the day in 1900 when the US Navy purchased the first modern submarine, USS Holland (SS-1). USS Holland was named in honour of her designer and builder, John Philip Holland.
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.
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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USS Boxer deployment delayed again, Navy says more repairs needed.
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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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HMS Hurworth inbound to Devonport.
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