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Royal Navy developing surveillance ship to protect underwater infrastructure

Maritime March 29, 2021

The Royal Navy are developing a new Multi Role Ocean Surveillance ship (MROSS) to protect our nation against hostile actors and grow our understanding of maritime threats. The ship, which will come into service by 2024, will be a surface vessel, with a crew of around 15 people who will conduct ...

Royal Navy leads an international task group on security patrol of Baltic

Maritime March 15, 2021

Royal Navy frigates led vessels from all three Baltic states in the first operation of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force. Frigates HMS Lancaster and Westminster, tanker RFA Tiderace and vessels from all three Baltic states – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – have joined forces for a concerted demonstration of Britain’s commitment ...

DPRTE partner Royal Navy tests software to rapidly map the seabed

Maritime March 15, 2021

Official DPRTE 2021 partner, Royal Navy, has tested cutting-edge software to map the seabed close to shore in hours. Survey vessel HMS Magpie was able to chart the waters around Plymouth purely using regular radar installed on shipping the world over and a specialist computer program which measures wave height. Using that ...

Mental health toolkit rolled out across entire Royal Navy fleet

Maritime March 9, 2021

Every member of the Royal Navy can now boost their mental health and fitness with access to an offline version of the mental health platform HeadFIT. A CD version of digital content has been distributed across the Royal Navy Fleet, Submarine Service, the Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary and will ...