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Marines stand on the deck of the frigate “Brandenburg” (F215) on its return from the Mediterranean. The “Brandenburg” left Wilhelmshaven in March 2024 to support maritime surveillance off the Lebanese coast and train the Lebanese navy as part of the UN Unifil mission.

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Aerial view of the RV – Research Vessel Triton – former prototype British warship demonstrator on the River Yare in Great Yarmouth – Norfolk UK. The Research Vessel Triton is a trimaran vessel owned by Gardline Marine Sciences Limited and a former prototype British warship demonstrator for the UK’s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (later QinetiQ). She was built as a technology demonstrator ship for the Royal Navy’s Future Surface Combatant and has been used to prove the hull form’s viability and as a trial platform for other QinetiQ innovations. The ship was used by the Australian Border Force’s Marine Unit and was for a time moored in the River Fal near the King Harry chain ferry. As of 4 October 2017, she was moored on the River Yare, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England.

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The last 35 crucial small boats have been delivered – ending a 7-year replacement project, Vahana. 3 hi-tech, modern small for the hydrographic squadron at HMNB Devonport complete the £48m programme to upgrade RN workboats.

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USS Pinckney (DDG 91) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA/MOD guided-missile destroyer, with her wide beam, coming into San Diego – July 18, 2024

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August 1986: HMS Liverpool D-92 alongside the USS Iowa BB-61 conducting a refueling at sea off the coast of Scotland during NATO Exercise Northern Wedding 86.

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INS Rana (D52). Indian Navy Rajput-class destroyer, and USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) astern in 2008.

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Plainview (AGEH-1) lifts her hull from the waters of Puget Sound during tests by her builder, Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co., Seattle, WA. 20 June 1968. The remains of ex-Plainview (AGEH-1) resting on a mud flat near Astoria.

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BAES Maritime will launch HMS Cardiff during the 2nd week of August.

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The RN’s hardest working and most reliable frigate HMS Richmond arrived in Portsmouth yesterday afternoon following patrols in northern waters.

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Former USS Tarawa (LHA-1) Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship being towed out of the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Pearl Harbour by USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) Safeguard-class salvage ship for SINKEX during RIMPAC 24 – July 16, 2024

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