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Lima Charlie: What Is The Future Of HMS Forth In The Falkland Islands?

Lima Charlie: What Is The Future Of HMS Forth In The Falkland Islands? The arrival of HMS Forth in the Falklands represents a significant increase in capability for the British forces locally 31st January 2020 at 4:51pm HMS Forth – Pic MoD/Crown Copyright ANALYSIS Lima Charlie: 2020 – The Year Ahead For Defence And TheContinue reading “Lima Charlie: What Is The Future Of HMS Forth In The Falkland Islands?”

Navy patrol vessel ‘La Confiance’ intercepts boat fishing illegally

ISLANDS  30 JANUARY 2020  HITS: 686       Antilles-Guiana patrol vessel “La Confiance”, which re-routed a vessel to St. Martin after it was caught in the act of fishing illegally near St. Barths. Story on page . MARIGOT–The French Navy patrol vessel La Confiance re-routed a vessel to St. Martin after it was caught in the act ofContinue reading “Navy patrol vessel ‘La Confiance’ intercepts boat fishing illegally”

French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme, the first armoured cruiser, Brest arsenal drydock, early 1890s. – The French navy suffered major defeats at the hands of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and subsequently looked for ways to remedy its inferiority. It was thought initially that steam power and iron-plated ships could equalize the field through ‘quality over quantity’ but the British naval industry soon built ships with those same qualities and at a much faster rate, so this proved to be a blind alley. During the latter decades of the 19th century, officers of the so-called Jeune Ecole devised a strategy called Guerre de Course, according to which the best way to defeat Great Britain was to destroy its merchant fleet and isolate the British Isles from trade and from the resources of its colonies. As a result, France began to build a series of powerful commerce raiders, fast enough to evade the battleships of the time but with strong enough armament and armour to overcome cruisers and smaller vessels. Dupuy de Lôme was the first of this new breed of warship, the armoured cruiser.

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