Monthly Archives: May 2024

The submarine chasers’ range of about 900 miles (1,400 km) at a cruising speed of 10 knots (19 km/h) restricted their operations to off-shore anti-submarine work and denied them an open-ocean escort capability; their high consumption of gasoline and limited fuel storage were handicaps the Eagle class sought to remedy. They were originally commissioned USSContinue reading “The Eagle class patrol craft were a set of steel ships smaller than destroyers but having a greater operational radius than the wooden-hulled, 110-foot (34 m) submarine chasers developed in 1917.”

A boom defence vessel was a type of small auxiliary ship. A net layer’s primary function was to lay and maintain steel anti-torpedo or anti-submarine nets. Nets could be laid around an individual ship at anchor, or around harbors or other anchorages. Net laying was potentially dangerous work, and net laying seamen were experts at dealing with blocks, tackles, knotsContinue reading “HMS Barfoam at Singapore, early in World War II”

The dry cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard and the destroyer USS Gravely conduct a replenishment at sea in the Persian Gulf on Dec. 8, 2023. The Navy blamed the grounding of the Alan Shepard in Bahrain on July 15, 2023, on the absence of the ship’s master from the bridge at a key moment. (MerissaContinue reading “USNS Alan Shepard ran aground in Bahrain after captain left bridge to eat, investigation finds By J.P. LAWRENCE   STARS AND STRIPES • May 6, 2024”

Port Services Darwin members stand-by as HMAS Adelaide approaches the newly built Kuru Wharf at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin, NT. Photo: LSIS Ernesto Sanchez NAVAL 06 MAY 2024 By: Robert Dougherty The Australian Defence Force has successfully docked one of Navy’s largest ships at HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin, for the first time, following the completion of theContinue reading “ADF trials new docking facilities at Kuru Wharf, HMAS Coonawarra”

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