22nd April 2025 at 1:08pm HMS Richmond has left her home port of Plymouth to join the flagship on the Royal Navy’s biggest deployment of the year. The submarine-hunter will spend most of the next eight months protecting aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and other ships which make up the UK Carrier Strike Group.Continue reading “HMS Richmond leaves Plymouth to take up her duties defending strike group”
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Massive crowd sees off HMS Prince of Wales as carrier leaves Portsmouth for CSG 25
Tim Cooper – 22nd April 2025 at 2:00pm HMS Prince of Wales has set sail from Portsmouth Harbour to the sound of cheering crowds as she heads out to sea to lead Carrier Strike Group 2025. She’s on an eight-month mission to demonstrate UK and allied collective resolve and determination to maintain security and freedom fromContinue reading “Massive crowd sees off HMS Prince of Wales as carrier leaves Portsmouth for CSG 25”
The loss of three young NZ members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the yacht Evaine, near Tiritiri, on April 17, 1940
As usual, this morning I read Bungy’s RNZN In Memoriam 17 APRIL: and read about that yacht Evaine. I do remember reading of this tragedy on other occasions but did not know how it had happened so a bit of research and turned this up. Bungy’s post – RNZN In Memoriam 17 APRIL: DALLOW Jack WilliamContinue reading “The loss of three young NZ members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the yacht Evaine, near Tiritiri, on April 17, 1940”
NZ frigate to join UK CSG in Indian Ocean with Spain leaving shortly after
The switch will be made once the multinational Carrier Strike Group reaches the Philippines in August 2025. John Hill – April 22, 2025 New Zealand will send a warship, HMNZS Te Kaha, an ANZAC-class frigate, to join the UK Carrier Strike Group 2025 (CSG25) deployment when the multinational force reaches the Indian Ocean. Shortly after, when CSG25 reach theContinue reading “NZ frigate to join UK CSG in Indian Ocean with Spain leaving shortly after”
USS Nimitz in Guam for Port Visit; U.S., South Korea Wrap Mine Warfare Exercise
Dzirhan Mahadzi – April 20, 2025 2:12 PM Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) made its first port call since departing its Indo-Pacific deployment, arriving in Guam on Friday with two of its escorts. Meanwhile the U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) wrapped up a mine warfare exercise in South Korean waters on last week.Nimitz, flagship ofContinue reading “USS Nimitz in Guam for Port Visit; U.S., South Korea Wrap Mine Warfare Exercise”
