Advertising – Welcome Aboard to KS Shipping Malta – September 2024
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Naval News – RFA LYME BAY L 3007 delivers humanitarian aid to Gaza – 02.01.2024
A Significant Milestone done by the Bay Class Landing Ship RFA LYME BAY L 3007 was done after she delivered 87 tonnes of humanitarian aid supplies including thermal blankets, shelter packs and medical supplies, that were provided by the UK and Cyprus in Egypt. The Egyptian Red Crescent is receiving the shipment from Port Said, […]
Naval News – HMS CORNWALL F 99 arrived at the breakers today 10 years ago – 30.10.2023
Today 30th October, 10 years ago the former Royal Navy Batch 3 Type 22 Class frigate HMS CORNWALL F 99 arrived at Swansea Drydocks for demolition after in July 2013 she was sold and towed from Portsmouth on 24th October, 2013 Laid down at the shipyard of Yarrow Shipbuilders on 14 th December 1983, launched […]
Naval News – Decommissioning of ITS ZEFFIRO F 577 – 05.10.2023
Last Thursday 5th October @ 1830hrs the Marina Militare Italiana (Italian Navy) Maestrale Class Frigate ITS ZEFFIRO F 577 was decommissioned after 38 years of service at Mar Grande Naval Station of Taranto, with 21 gun salute. Moored at Augusta Navy Base back to 27th April, 2019. Launched on 19th May 1984 built by Fincantieri […]
Naval News – FS SUFFREN D 602 last voyage to the breakers – 04.10.2023
20 years after she was decommissioned from Marine Nationale (French Navy) the 1967 commissioned Suffren Class Frigate FS SUFFREN D 602 left Toulon, France for the last time on Wednesday 4th October bound to Societes Cardem Breakers at Bordeaux. She was designed to protect a fleet against air threats, surface ships, submarines, and, to a […]
Sailing – Italian Navy Sail Training Vessel ORSA MAGGIORE A 5323 as Royal Middle Sea Race Entrant
The famous Rolex Middle Sea Race in Malta (RMSR) starting from Valletta has risen continuously since it was first held in 1968. After leaving the Grand Harbour , Malta, boats head to the Gulf of Messina (Sicily), then the Aeolian Islands (together with the active volcano Stromboli), then passing through the Aegadian Islands, Islands of […]
Naval News – HMS MONTROSE F 236 decommission – 17.04.2023
On Monday 17th April, 2023 the Royal Navy formally retired the Type 23 frigate HMS MONTROSE F 236 from service at Portsmouth Naval Base. HMS MONTROSE was the eight of the sixteen-ship Type 23 or Duke class Frigates, named after the Duke of Montrose. She was laid down in November 1989 by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde, and […]
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. […]
Preserved Ships – HMS BRISTOL D 23 bid launched to preserve her – December 2022
A bid was launched to preserve the Type 82 destroyer HMS BRISTOL D 23 , the only ship of her class built for the Royal Navy as a museum ship in Portsmouth. In fact she’s the only FALKLANDS WAR survivor in Britain. During 1991 while she was part of the Dartmouth training squadron, she suffered […]
Malta Naval Visits – RFS MB-304 – 23-28.10.2012
On Thursday 25th October, 2012 the Russian Navy Sorum Class (Project 745) Ocean Going Tug MB-304 entered Grand Harbour, Malta for the first time berthing at Boiler Wharf. She was built at the Yaroslav Zavod Shipyard as yard no 409 in 1973 and commissioned 29th July 1977 and was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet. […]
