You have to wonder what the pirates were thinking when they decided to fire on a gray warship. Well, as you can imagine, the warship fired back, hitting the small skiff at setting it ablaze. We need to see results like this more often. In the past 10 days, the U.S. Navy has captured 21 [...]
There is a white ship that normally sits moored in Baltimore, forgotten by most. Today, that ship became the most important ship in the U.S. Navy. Today, the USNS Comfort arrived in Haiti.
Here is a look at what will soon be one of the most interesting looking ships in the U.S. Navy’s fleet, the USS Independence (LCS 2). The ship was recently underway for sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico.
The now infamous North Korean flagged cargo ship Kang Nam 1 continues to make headlines and a nightmare of legal and diplomatic arguments as it proceeds to Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar).
In another incident between the U.S. Navy and China, a submerged Chinese sub apparently collided with a towed array from the Arliegh Burke Class guided missile destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday. Here is the story from Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chinese submarine accidentally collided with an underwater sonar array being towed by a U.S. [...]
In a relatively lightly published and un-noticed event, the U.S. flagged cargo ship M/V SAGAMORE was attacked and robbed on Aug. 8th by two men with AK-47s near the al-Basrah Oil Terminal, which lies about 19 miles from the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. The SAGAMORE is operated by Sealift Inc., a privately held company [...]
The appearance of the small foreign freighter loaded with over 490 Tamil refugees off the shores of the U.S. and Canadian border in the Pacific Northwest posed a fairly significant challenge to the Canadian Maritime Forces this week. It became a particular challenge for Canada vice the U.S. because the vessel was requesting asylum in [...]
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