NAC News – Edition 237
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NAC Membership Newsletter #3
- View the latest newsletter.. The Executive Director will be distributing the entire package to Branch Presidents shortly. (The entire package includes Calgary Branch flyer, Toronto Branch Speaker event notifications and their branch newsletter “The Binnacle”)
- Shipbuilding Technology Forum
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CANADA
- ★ Rising Tide Lifts all Boats: Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy to Yield Economic Benefits Across the Country (AOPS Related – Executive Director NAC has a copy of actual report)
- Government of Canada sets up funding to repair HMCS Sackville
- ★ Editorial: Reveal the case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman
- Project Resolve Davie’s photo Gallery
- U.S., Canadian officials meet on emerging threat from drug traffickers
- New U.S. warship trapped in Montreal by heavy ice
- As Canada Moves to Add Icebreaking Capability, USS Little Rock is Stuck in Montreal
- Steel cut on Max Bernays – Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel
- Federal government looks to lease icebreakers from Quebec shipyard Davie
- Canada’s Victoria Cross has yet to be awarded
- Arctia Ltd. ready to support Canada
- New Executive Director for Association of BC Marine Industries
- RCN Honorary Navy Captains
- Ottawa Awards Contract for Disposal of former HMCS Athabaskan
- Port of Prince Rupert ships record volumes in 2017
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USA & AMERICAS
- ★ Mattis: US national security focus no longer terrorism
- The Doomsday Clock Moves To The Closest Point To Midnight in 2018 Since The Cold War (a long video that covers a wide range of destabilizing topics.
- Mohawk Seizes More Than 3 Tons of Cocaine, Rescues Sea Turtle, Builds Partnerships
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 22, 2018
- US Navy tracks Russian spy ship off Virginia coast
- LCS Manchester Completes Acceptance Trials
- How homicide charges for two skippers will shake up the entire Navy
- Stricken Destroyer USS Fitzgerald Arrives in Mississippi for Two Years of Repairs
- Cyberphysical Forensics: Lessons from the USS John S. McCain Collision
- California’s Ports Implements Biofouling Regulations
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INDO-ASIA PACIFIC
- Japanese Navy Spots Tanker Alongside North Korean Ship
- A man, a plan, a canal…Thailand?
- ★ Mattis signals harder line in South China Sea
- ★ U.S. Plans to Send Aircraft Carrier Vinson to Vietnam
- ★ In 2017, US Freedom of Navigation Operations Targeted 10 Asian Countries — Not Just China
- North Korea Commemorates 50th Anniversary of USS Pueblo Seizure
- PLA Navy to streamline pilot training as more aircraft carriers expected
- China Navy Commissions of the day: Four new Yuyi class landing craft, air cushion (LCAC)
- Photo of the day: 6th Yuzhao Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD) launched in Shanghai
- Japan Ready to Mass-Produce New Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile
- Shipbreaking in Asia: profit at a price
- China’s birthrate dropped despite allowing 2-child families
- China Unveils Vision for “Polar Silk Road”
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- Russia gets rid of world’s most powerful nuclear submarines
- China to develop Arctic shipping routes opened by global warming
- Royal Navy Works with Australians on Massive Drug Bust
- Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo
- Greece to negotiate with France for frigates, corvettes
- The Sun Sets On Lynx Operations In The UK
- Action needed to reduce alien invasions from biofouling, says UK P&I Club
- Norway: We Must Prepare for Arctic Oil Race with Russia
- (Retrieved after reading article above.) Delimitation agreement: A new era in the Barents Sea and the Arctic?
- The Nautical Institute launches Lifeboat safety handbook
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MIDDLE EAST & REST-OF-THE-WORLD
- Trump Threatens To Pull Palestinian Aid If They Don’t Pursue Peace
- New Marine Security Recommendations for Southern Red Sea
- Chinese naval escort taskforce visits Tunisia
- Chinese naval escort ship expels suspected pirate boat in Gulf of Aden
- Decoding the Polar Code (the magazine opens when you click on it.)
- ‘World’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth’, says Oxfam
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- Heroes Remember: A demonstration of NATO presence (Interview with VAdm Murray)
- 1969 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother – Wilhemina (Mina) Gray
- The (almost) complete history of ‘fake news’
- Canada And The Victoria Cross: Part 1 of 18 (an old and detailed Legion series of articles that explains the Victoria Cross in Canada, and is to give background to the earlier VC news article)
- Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say
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