Mallory Shelboure – April 27, 2026 5:38 PM Future Bougainville (LHA-8) under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., on Aug. 30, 2024. USNI News photo The next two big-deck amphibious warships will take about nine years each to build, as the Navy pushes the planned delivery date for the vessels by another year, USNI NewsContinue reading “USN Amphibs Bougainville, Fallujah Deliveries Are Pushed Another Year”
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Specialist team works through night to remove HMS Victory’s masts for conservation project
Ros Moore – 28th April 2026 at 12:44pm Once all the masts are removed a scaffolding structure will encase the ship until the conservation work is completed in 2033 (Picture: National Museum Royal Navy) Across three nights a 30-strong specialist team using a 750-tonne crane are carefully removing the remaining masts of HMS Victory as partContinue reading “Specialist team works through night to remove HMS Victory’s masts for conservation project”
HMAS Canberra 1930’s Wellington
HMAS Canberra (I33/D33), named after the Australian capital city of Canberra, was a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class of County-class cruisers. Constructed in Scotland during the mid-1920s, the ship was commissioned in 1928, and spent the first part of her career primarily operating in Australian waters, with some deployments toContinue reading “HMAS Canberra 1930’s Wellington”
Fiji – Search expands for nine missing at sea
Authorities cover 20,000 nautical miles as families await updates. Tuesday 28 April 2026 | 12:30 Guardian-class patrol boat RFNS Timo during the search and rescue mission. Photo: Republic of Fiji Navy Search and rescue operations are intensifying for nine fishermen reported missing at sea after departing from Vatuwaqa, Suva last week. As of April 28,Continue reading “Fiji – Search expands for nine missing at sea”
Record number of nations joining this summer’s RIMPAC drills in Hawaii, Navy says By WYATT OLSON STARS AND STRIPES • April 28, 2026 Read more at: https://ift.tt/BpoGnbC Source – Stars and Stripes
From front, German frigate FGS Baden-Württemberg, Royal Netherlands Navy frigate HNLMS Tromp and the Royal New Zealand Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMNZS Aotearoa sail in formation off the coast of Hawaii during the Rim of the Pacific exercise in July 2024. (Larissa T. Dougherty/U.S. Navy)Read more at: https://ift.tt/BpoGnbCSource – Stars and Stripes AContinue reading “Record number of nations joining this summer’s RIMPAC drills in Hawaii, Navy says By WYATT OLSON STARS AND STRIPES • April 28, 2026 Read more at: https://ift.tt/BpoGnbC Source – Stars and Stripes”
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