Australia’s largest international maritime exercise, KAKADU 2016, was officially launched on 13 September in Darwin by the Commander Australian Fleet, Rear Admiral Stuart Mayer. Ships, submarines and aircraft from Australia, Canada, France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and the United States, with observers from Fiji, India, New Zealand, ...
Lloyd’s Register (LR) is collaborating with QinetiQ to support maritime customers and other stakeholders in assuring their cyber security. QinetiQ combines its maritime consultancy capability, evolved through decades of acting as impartial advisor to the Royal Navy, with its cyber security expertise, trusted to protect government organisations and critical national infrastructure. The ...
The USS Wichita was officially launched on 17th September, with a traditional ceremony on the banks of the Menominee River. The 13th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was launched sideways into the river following it’s christening where ship sponsor, Kate Lehrer, broke a champagne bottle across the ship’s bow just prior to ...
Whilst on exercise in the North Atlantic, HMS Monmouth broke off war games and dashed to the help save the life of a Canadian fisherman. Taking part in Canada’s largest naval exercise in two decades, the Plymouth-based frigate picked up a mayday signal while her board and search teams were working ...
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