Monthly Archives: May 2026

  The UK’s auxiliary vessel RFA Lyme Bay, pictured here on exercise off Norway in 2025, is being fitted with uncrewed capabilities to support mine-hunting operations. (Credit: Crown copyright/UK Ministry of Defence, 2025) The UK’s outfitting of its Bay-class auxiliary vessel RFA Lyme Bay as a naval mine warfare (NMW) ‘mothership’ carrying uncrewed systems for the mine-huntingContinue reading “Lyme Bay MCM Uncrewed Systems Fit Illustrates ‘Hybrid Navy’ Flexibility”

  HMAS QUICKMATCH. HMAS Quickmatch (G92/D21/D292/F04) was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Although commissioned into the RAN in 1942, the ship was initially the property of the Royal Navy. Quickmatch served with both the British Eastern Fleet and British Pacific Fleet during World War II. In the 1950s, the destroyerContinue reading “HMAS Quickmatch (G92/D21/D292/F04) was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).”

 The German Navy has christened the fifth and final K130 corvette (Braunschweig-class) from the second batch of the vessels. The ceremony took place at Rheinmetall’s Blohm+Voss site in Hamburg on April 29, in the presence of representatives from politics, industry, and the Bundeswehr (the German Armed Forces). Lübeck’s City President Henning Schumann’s partner, Huong Nguyen, christened the 89-metre-longContinue reading “German Navy christens fifth and final K130 Batch II corvette”

  Credit: Naval Oceanographic Office via Facebook The milestone was achieved on April 21-22, when the oceanographic survey ship was launched for the first time. The US Navy has launched the oceanographic survey ship, the future USNS Robert Ballard (T-AGS 67), during a ceremony at the Bollinger Shipyard in Pascagoula. Up to this stage, Ballard had been assembledContinue reading “US Navy launches oceanographic survey ship USNS Robert Ballard”

The destroyer was built by Williamstown Naval Dockyard and entered service in 1958. During her early career, Vendetta was deployed to the Far East Strategic Reserve on multiple occasions. In 1965 and 1966, the destroyer undertook deterrence patrols during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation. Along with several runs escorting the troop transport HMAS Sydney to Vietnam, fromContinue reading “HMAS Vendetta was one of three Daring-class destroyers built for and operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).”