Category: Shipping

Rolls-Royce supplies mtu marine gensets for F126

DAMEN Naval and Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division have signed a contract for the supply of 16 mtu diesel gensets for the German Navy's four new F126 frigates. This is DAMEN's first order for mtu diesel gensets for military applications. According to Hein van Ameijden, Managing Director of DAMEN Naval, Rolls-Royce was chosen because its mtu solutions are customised for naval applications. Efficiency, fuel savings and reduced maintenance The on-board power for each F126 frigate is provided by four Series 4000 variable-speed mtu gensets. These high-performance gensets are the most environmentally friendly marine gensets Rolls-Royce has ever produced: they fulfil the requirements of the IMO III...

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Didn't get away with it!

"Toxic" aircraft carrier returns to Brazil Officials in Turkey have confirmed it: the decommissioned Brazilian Navy aircraft carrier NAE São Paulo, which was due to be scrapped in Aliaga, has changed course and is on its way back to Brazil. The tug of the aircraft carrier has changed its AIS signal and now indicates that it will arrive back in Rio de Janeiro on 2 October. The two-month round trip follows a similar pattern to the odyssey of its sister ship, the French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau", which was also turned away in 2006, then in India. As with her sister ship, the "São...

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Gorch Fock back in Kiel on 9 September

On Friday, 9 September 2022, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" arrived in its home port of Kiel. The crew was welcomed by Flotilla Admiral Jens Nemeyer, Commander of the Mürwik Naval School. The day before, Kristina Herbst, the new president of the CDU state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein, had welcomed the Gorch Fock to the roadstead in the Kiel Fjord. After a good five weeks and around 2,500 nautical miles, this marks the end of the 174th foreign training voyage (AAR) and thus the first voyage of the new commander, Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmannsegg (55). "My main hope with this voyage was to achieve the training objective for the officer cadets and at the same time to fulfil...

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Iranian navy on a privateer voyage - sail drones in tow!

On Friday (2 September), the Iranian navy announced that it had seized two American-made sailing drones in the Red Sea because they were apparently "ownerless and uncontrolled, threatening the navigational safety of shipping". Following two calls from an American destroyer in the sea area, the two drones were taken on board the Iranian destroyer "Jamaran" without further ado and released again after an inspection away from the shipping lanes. This was combined with a request to the US Navy to please prevent such incidents in future. Iranian state television published corresponding scenes from on board the destroyer. On the American side, this then sounded...

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Frigate "Hessen" exercises with aircraft carrier group

Wilhelmshaven - On Monday, 5 September 2022 at 2 p.m., the frigate "Hessen" and her crew will cast off. She will leave her home port of Wilhelmshaven to join the US Carrier Strike Group (CSG). Together with the American aircraft carrier "USS Gerald R. Ford", the German frigate operates primarily as part of the air defence unit and is an integral part of the aircraft carrier group. Operational training and operational cooperation will be the focus of the coming weeks, combined with international cooperation and practising various threat scenarios. The "Hessen" was already part of an aircraft carrier group with the "USS Harry S. Truman" in 2018 and supported the group...

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