Malta Naval Visits – February 2023
Naval Visits for the year 2023 started from February – Saturday 4th to Tuesday 7th February The First Naval Ship was the Italian Navy Gaeta Class Minehunter ITS VIAREGGIO M 5559 that entered at 0924 hrs. She was seen for the first time in Malta back to 2001 when she was only 5 years old. […]
Haifa Port – March 2022 Movements.
The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel’s three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor, which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and […]
Haifa Port – February 2021 Movements
The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel’s three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor, which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and […]
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 […]
Casualties – Fire on cargo ship BELLATRIX off Sicily – 08.04.2020
On Wednesday 8th April, 2020 morning the Italian Coast Guard (Guardia Costiera) received a mayday distress call from the Russian flag general cargo ship BELLATRIX with fire on board. BELLATRIX was more than 180 miles southeast of Catania, when she launched the distress call for a fire which was out of control in the engine […]
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 […]
DYNAMIC MANTA EXERCISE 2018 – FS LANGUEDOC D 653 The French Participation for Dynamic Manta Exercise 2018 is a FREMM Frigate – D 653 FS LANGUEDOC. She was commissioned on the 16th March 2016 and built by Naval Group, Lorient formerly DCNS in France.She was spotted berthed at Banchina 13 at Catania Port on Friday 2nd […]
SYRIA AIR STRIKES – Saturday 14th April, 2018. During the early hours of Saturday 14th April, 2018 the US, UK and French carried air strikes on Syria’s chemical related sites. US Naval assets involved were the Virginia Class submarine USS JOHN WARMER SSN 785, the Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS MONTEREY CG 61 and the Arleigh […]
