By Diana Stancy Correll Naval Station Mayport is home to a new helicopter squadron. Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 50 “Valkyries” was established Oct. 1, and is outfitted with MH-60R Seahawks to support littoral combat ships and expeditionary independent deployers. The MH-60 is capable participating in a range of missions, including anti-submarine warfare, electronic warfare, surface warfare, among otherContinue reading “Naval Station Mayport gets new helicopter squadron, Maritime Strike Squadron 50”
Monthly Archives: October 2021
USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) conducts an underway replenishment with HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) in the Philippine Sea.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 20, 2021) The U.S. Navy’s fleet replenishment oiler provided fuel and other critical supplies to the Royal New Zealand Navy’s sustainment ship. Military Sealift Command Far East ensures ships like Rappahannock are manned, trained and equipped to deliver essential supplies, fuel, cargo, and equipment to U.S. forces, allies and partners, both atContinue reading “USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) conducts an underway replenishment with HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) in the Philippine Sea.”
Future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) left Maine for Hawaii
French Armed Forces merchant ship MN Calao, flanked by LHD Mistral and Aquitaine-class FREMM Languedoc after exercise Rhéa, March 2021.
HMS Martin (G44)
HMS Martin was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers. Loss[edit] Martin was allocated to the escort group for Force “H” in Operation “Torch”, the landings in North Africa. She sailed from Scapa Flow on 30 OctoberContinue reading “HMS Martin (G44)”
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