NAC News – Edition 263 HMCS Yukon, and Drummondville WW2 Bangor Class Minesweeper
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NOTICES
- ★ GoFundMe for Admiral Norman’s Legal Defence (Editor – Share with your friends and lets get this campaign to our goal of $200,000!” After 5 months 1,096 people have contributed $137,820 towards the $200,00 goal)
- Shearwater as birthplace of maritime aviation in Canada and introduced a century of service by all those who served there. Aug 1-3 events.
- UNTDA – 75th Anniv. Reunion – Sept 9-12, 2018 – St John’s, NL – Registration now open
- The Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDA Institute) 21st Annual Graduate Student Symposium between Sunday, 30 Sept and Tuesday, 2 Oct 2018 at RMC.
- Navy Commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd to open maritime conference
(MSC 18 “Pacific Seapower” on 15-18 Oct Victoria BC) - MARITECH Full Speed Ahead: Firing on all cylinders (Call for papers opportunity) Conference and Exhibition Ottawa ON April 23-25 2019
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CANADA
- Canadian forces pull their weight, in NATO and elsewhere
- Command change for the Naval Reserve
- Operation Projection 2018 Teaser (Editor – Video)
- The MV Asterix Delivers: Canada’s Supply Ship Impresses at Sea
- HMCS St. John’s returns Monday, Sea King on board was last operational deployment of that RCAF helicopter fleet
- Sea King is going out in style
- Change of management at Seaspan Shipyards
- BC Ferries looking to build five new replacement vessels
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USA & AMERICAS
- ★ Chaos from order (Editor – shocking that it has come to this)
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: July 23, 2018
- The US Navy’s new anti-ship missile scores a hit at RIMPAC, but there’s a twist
- New Surface Forces Instruction Restricts Who Can Earn a SWO Pin
- Pacific Pair of Mine Countermeasures Exercises Focus on International Cooperation
- Report to Congress on U.S. Navy Ship Naming Conventions
- Navy, Marine Corps Racing to Increase Amphibious Fleet as Demand Rises
- Report to Congress on Navy Shipbuilding and Force Structure
- Report to Congress on U.S. Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program
- Ready Reserve Force Vessels Stand Ready
- Special Report: Great Lakes business and The Great Lakes Group
- Port of Savannah Handled a Record 4.2 Million TEU in FY 2018
- Wave of plastic hits Dominican Republic
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INDO-PACIFIC
- The US-China War Will Have to Wait
- Six ways China could retaliate in a trade war
- Researcher: China still no match for US in fight for Taiwan
- Top CIA official says China waging ‘cold war’ to replace U.S. as leading global power
- Beijing plays down media hype about unmanned subs
- US, Japan, Australia Sinking Ship by Anti-Ship Missiles & Torpedo – RIMPAC 2018 Sinking Exercise (Editor – longer video of RIPAC Sinkex)
- PM approves first stage of navy mini-submarine project
- HMAS Adelaide docks Amphibious Assault Vehicles
- A multi-national feat for 2 RAR on HMAS Adelaide
- Japan to deploy patrol ships on remote island south of Tokyo
- ONE Accepts Delivery of 14,000 TEU Box Ship
- #SNAME125
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- Royal Navy’s cut-price frigate contract runs aground because of ‘lack of competition’
- HMS Enterprise returns home after year-long NATO mission
- Frozen Dreams: Russia’s Arctic obsession (Editor – 16 minute mini-documentary for perspective)
- The end of NATO?
- Putin’s Russia and the ghost of the Romanovs | The Economist (editor – YouTube Video)
- Repercussions of EU-Japan Pact for Hamburg Port
- Yamal LNG Means More Work for Europe’s LNG Ports
- Long Drought Puts Pressure on Dutch Inland Shipping Sector
- EGCSA: scrubber installations nearing 1,000 vessels
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MIDDLE EAST
- Risks to Middle East Oil and Gas Shipping Routes: Here’s What’s At Stake
- Explainer: What is the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Why is it Important?
- If Iran tries to close this strait crucial to the oil trade, the US Navy can unblock it quickly — Adm. Stavridis
- Trump’s war of words with Iran is another sign the world’s oil supply is at risk (Editor – great graphic of maritime oil movement)
- Saudi Oil Tanker Attacked Off Yemen Coast
- Saudi Arabia Suspends Oil Exports Through Bab-el-Mandeb Strait After Houthi Attacks
- Boat carrying 160 African migrants reportedly capsizes off Yemen
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GLOBAL INTERESTS
- ★ The Review of Maritime Transport is a recurrent publication prepared by the UNCTAD secretariat (Editor – all you wanted to know about maritime trade but were afraid to ask (2017’s long pdf report))
- Piracy Risk Persists in Gulf of Guinea –Report
- Transport volume of seaborne trade from 1990 to 2015 (in million metric tons)
- Ocean wilderness ‘disappearing’ globally
- AIS Animation Shows Suez Canal Mayhem After Ship Grounds
- IMO on Maritime Security in 21st Century
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- HMCS Chicoutimi: “Dive” (Editor – special video)
- HMCS CHICOUTIMI: “Surface!” (Ediror – the other part)
- Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) Launch & CIC View of Canadian Navy Frigate (Editor – Missilex video)
- Future HMCS Max Bernays AOPS start of construction (Editor – 7 month old video but a good refresher)