Monthly Archives: July 2022

Logistics Specialist Seaman Curtis Peterson jumps from the USS Antietam fantail during a swim call. Picture: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David Flewellyn/U.S. Navy Hands To Bathe is one of a plethora of Royal Navy traditions that has survived through the ages of its seafaring history but perhaps confusingly for the unenlightened, it is notContinue reading “Hands To Bathe: Why This Navy Custom Is Not About Washing Hands What is Hands To Bathe or Swim Call as it’s known in America?”

Play Video HMS Blyth HMS Ramsey Sailors of the Ukrainian Navy are being trained by their Royal Navy counterparts in Scotland. The Ukrainians are learning how to operate Sandown-class minehunters as they prepare to receive two of the such vessels as part of a deal struck with the UK last year.  “It’s a professional privilege, really,Continue reading “Ukrainian sailors train on Royal Navy minehunters – Ukraine is set to receive two Royal Navy Sandown-class minehunters after a deal was struck between the UK and Ukraine last year. Federica Romaniello David Sivills-McCann 22nd July 2022 at 1:17pm”

PACIFIC OCEAN (July 19, 2022) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) sails in the Pacific Ocean following a replenishment-at-sea with Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnelContinue reading “PACIFIC OCEAN (July 19, 2022) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) sails in the Pacific Ocean following a replenishment-at-sea with Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lake Fultz)”

USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) transiting the Bosphorus Strait on July 21, 2016. Turkishnavy.net Photo used with Permission This story has been updated to fix attribution to Cmdr. Matthew Phillips. The favorite cereal among the crew of USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) was Captain Crunch. So beloved was the cereal that its arrival onto the ship following a portContinue reading “Navy Decommissions USS Whidbey Island By: Heather Mongilio July 22, 2022 3:35 PM • Updated: July 22, 2022 10:02 PM”

IMAGE SOURCE,PA MEDIAImage caption, HMS Portland tracked cruise missile submarine Severodvinsk after it surfaced A Royal Navy warship has tracked two Russian submarines in the North Sea. British submarine hunter HMS Portland shadowed the vessels from Russia’s Northern Fleet after they surfaced separately, north west of Bergen, Norway. The Navy said it tracked the pairContinue reading “Royal Navy tracks two Russian submarines in North Sea By Jo Couzens BBC News Published 1 day ago”