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US NAVY – Boldly gone

USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was officially deactivated at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia on 1 December 2012. The task of...

CHINESE NAVY – One small step . . .

Chinese state TV has shown a Chinese-made Shenyang J-15 fighter jet conducting a successful take-off and arrested landing on the Peoples Liberation Army Navy’s...

NETHERLANDS NAVY – And the winner is . . .

The Holland class OPV, the Royal Netherlands Navy’s new class of patrol vessel, has been voted ‘ship of the year’ at the Dutch annual...

ROYAL FLEET AUX – Electric seapower

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s next fleet of tankers will be known as the Tide class. The four ships, the first to emerge from the...

RUSSIAN NAVY: Saints go marching on

STX France has scheduled the launch of the first of two Russian Mistral class assault landing ships for September 2013. The French shipyard will...

UNDER SAIL: Tall Ships go south

Many of the better known European tall ships were away from home waters in autumn 2012. The Russian four-masted barque Sedov left in May...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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