Malta Naval Visits – HMS ALBION L 14 – 07.11 to 11.11.2022
On Monday 7th November 2022, Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship HMS ALBION L 14 arrived in Malta berthing starboard side alongside to Boiler Wharf. The visit coincided with a series of Remembrance Day commemorations happening in Malta of which her Country Flag was flown half mast as per below images. Her last call to Malta […]
Russia-Ukraine War – 2 Russian Navy Warships damaged after Missile Attacks – 13.09.2023
On Wednesday 13th September, 2023 Ukraine confirmed it severely damaged the Russian Navy Improved Kilo Class submarine (Project 636.3) RFS ROSTOV-NA-DONU with British supplied cruise missiles Storm Shadow , during a missile attack on the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Russian occupied Crimea while drydocked. Russia said 10 cruise missiles were fired against the […]
Naval News – Peruvian Navy bought 6 Helicopters for Euro 1 each – August 2023
The South Korean designed Makassar class Landing Platform Dock of the Peruvian Navy BAP PISCO AMP 156, a rarity in European waters was seen at Rota, Spain on Wednesday 9th August. She was built in Peru by by Shipyard Marine Industrial Services of Peru, known as SIMA. The design of the BAP PISCO was carried […]
Russia-Ukraine War – Ukrainian drone holes sanctioned Russian tanker – Aug 2023
After a drone strike on the 1976 Polish built Russian Navy Ropucha II Class Landing Ship OLEGORSKY GORNYAK formerly known as BDK-91 last, Saturday 5th August, Ukraine has followed upon a sanctioned Russian tanker, the SIG. Interfax Ukraine quotes sources in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) as saying that the tanker was being used […]
Military Nostalgia – Tank Landing Ship HMS REGGIO L 3511 at Malta
HMS REGGIO L 3511 was a a tank landing ship (LST) Mk 3, of which 80 were built by Canada and the UK. She was built as LST 3511 by Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co. Ltd. at Lauzon, Quebec, Canada and was launched in November 1944, commissioning in mid-September 1945 and thus missed the Second […]
Naval News – Russia started illegally dispose captured Ukrainian Navy Units – June 2023
Russia started to illegally dispose of ships of the Ukrainian Navy captured in Sevastopol and Donuzlav, which after 2014 were located on the territory of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea which is Ukraine after all. Six captured units are located in the area of the ship breaking Facility Inkerman, suburb of Sevastopol which […]
Casualties – Indonesian Navy KRI TELUK HADING 538 caught fire – 03.06.2023
On Saturday 3rd June a fire broke out on Indonesian Navy’s landing vessel, KRI TELUK HADING 538 in the Flores Sea, around 9 nautical miles off the coast of Bira, Southeast South Sulawesi, Indonesia with 119 souls, including 62 crew and 57 Army Troopers. The fire happened around 1400hrs local time when the ship was […]
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. […]
Russia-Ukraine War – Ukrainian Navy destroy Russian Navy RFS ORSK BDK 148 – 24.03.2022
On Thursday 24th March a Russian Navy Project 1171 Tapir Class landing ship (NATO reporting name as Alligator) RFS ORSK BDK 148 was destroyed with 2 other naval vessels damaged in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Berdiansk by the Ukrainian Military. 24 hours before this was the scene while she was discharging military equipment […]
Ukraine Crisis – Russian Navy building up around Ukraine – 21.02.2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow does not want a war in Europe amid rising tensions over Ukraine but demanded that the issue of Kyiv’s relationship with NATO be resolved in its entirety immediately. Speaking at a joint news conference on Tuesday 15th February, 2022 after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Putin said Russia had […]
