Naval News – Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 in Sicily – February 2020.
Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) standing maritime immediate reaction force which consists of four to six destroyers and frigates. Its role is to provide NATO with an immediate operational response capability. From Saturday 22nd February to Monday 24th February SNMG 2 units consisting of 6 naval ships was at Catania Port berthing at […]
Former Military – OCEAN ALERT
One of the former Canadian Coast Guard Cutters trading around the Mediterranean Sea was the vessel OCEAN ALERT. Completed in 1969 by Davie Shipbuilding & Repair in Lauzon at Quebec in Canada as CCGS ALERT she was a specialised search and rescue (SAR) vessel. She was powered with four Fairbanks Morse 12 cylinder engines driving two […]
Malta Naval Visits – HMCS ATHABASKAN DDG 282 – February 2006
Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG 1) is one of NATO’s standing naval maritime immediate reaction forces. SNMG 1 consists of four to six destroyers and frigates. Its role is to provide NATO with an immediate operational response capability. On Sunday 19th February, 2006 a SNMG1 Squadron called to Malta with the flagship as DDH 282 HMCS ATHABASKAN berthing at […]
Naval News – Dynamic Manta Exercise 2019
NATO’s Submarine Warfare Exercise DYNAMIC MANTA 2019 (DYMA 19) naval assets started building up for the exercise off the Sicilian coast. DYNAMIC MANTA remains to be one of the most challenging exercises for NATO. It provides NATO nations’ with an excellent opportunity for their forces to practice together in a pure joint environment and simultaneously […]
Naval News – 2 Canadian Frigates Catch fire while Deployed – 01.11.2018
Fire broke out in separate incidents aboard two Halifax class frigates of the Royal Canadian Navy that are currently deployed off Europe. The first incident took place on Friday, October 26th, when a reportedly minor blaze erupted in the gas turbine engine of HMCS HALIFAX FFH 330 while the ship was in Norwegian waters. The fire was quickly […]
LE PONANT leaving Valletta, Malta – 23.06.2012 – Aerial Photography
The 1991 FRA (France) built Sail Passenger Ship LE PONANT was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS while leaving Valletta after a scheduled port of call. She was built in France by Francaise De Construction Navals at Villeneuve La Garenne and she’s homeported at Matautu. On the 4th April 2008 while she was through the […]
