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ITALIAN NAVY: Italian Navy to downsize

The Italian Navy is set for some drastic pruning as the troubled eurozone’s third-largest economy looks at reducing military numbers by around 30 per...

FLOATING PLATFORML: FLIP turns 50

One of the world’s unique vessels, in fact the only vessel of her type in existence, the US Navy’s Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) celebrated...

US NAVY: Taking to the skies

The US Navy’s next big-deck amphibious assault ship, USS America (LHA 6), has been ‘launched’. The ship, already weighing more than 29,000 tonnes, became...

ROYAL NAVY: Gib ‘cat-and-mouse’ game

The long-running handbagging between Spain and the UK over the sovereignty of Gibraltar has continued, with more tense stand-offs between fishing boats and authorities...

NEW ZEALAND: Kiwi patrol quandary

The Royal New Zealand Navy has admitted that it may not be able to deploy up to half its fleet of inshore patrol vessels...

LNG TANKER: Off to the breakers

On 28 April one of the oldest gas tankers in the world arrived at the shipbreaking yard of Van Heyghen Recycling in Ghent, Belgium....
Ships Montly - January 2024
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