NAC News – Edition 264 HMCS Qu’appelle, and Granby WW2 Bangor Class Minesweeper
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Rod Hughes
Editor NAC News
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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 6 months 1,098 people have contributed $137,940 towards the $200,00 goal)
- 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
- New MARPAC Commander gets down to business at RIMPAC
- HMCS Calgary begins five-month assignment
- Canada’s Veterans Still Face Trouble Getting Benefits They Deserve: Watchdog Guy Parent
- HMCS Calgary completes live fire air defence exercise
- Historic Navy ship docks in Windsor during Great Lakes tour
- The Royal Canadian Naval Air Service – “The Fleet Arm” (Editor – another 100th anniversary this year, in 1918, the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service was created)
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USA & AMERICAS
- Fleet Tactics return- A conversation with authors Wayne Hughes and Bob Girrier
- Trump’s grand strategy
- Pence welcomes return of presumed Korean War dead
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: July 30, 2018
- Navy Shifting Homeports of 3 Carriers: Lincoln to San Diego, Stennis to Norfolk, Vinson to Bremerton
- VIDEO: Navy May Bring Back Harpoon Missiles on Attack Subs After Successful SINKEX; RIMPAC Also Highlights Ground-to-Ship Strike Capability
- Navy Exercises Options For Additional Future Frigate Design Work
- Full speed ahead on the new US Navy frigate
- Report to Congress on Gerald R. Ford-class Aircraft Carrier Program
- Report to Congress on Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
- Navy’s longest-serving sub heads into retirement
- Report to Congress on Changes in the Arctic
- Panama Canal Marks 4,000 Neopanamax Transits
- Container Trade Numbers: Fast and Loose or Hard and Fast
- Port of Corpus Christi Bond Sale Raises $216.2 Million for Ship Channel Dredging Project
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INDO-PACIFIC
- US mulls 25% tariff on $200bn of Chinese goods, say reports
- U.S. – China maritime trade flows through pacific ports and the Paso del Norte hinterland corridors (Editor – long report but worth a look at the chartlets)
- Russia, China are outmanouvering US: Generals recommend new authorities, doctrine
- Japan fires a salvo in Senkaku row with new Aegis destroyers
- In first, China permanently stations search-and-rescue vessel in South China Sea’s Spratly chain
- Australia charts its own South China Sea course
- Southeast Asia, Beijing hail milestone in South China Sea talks
- PLA’s new early warning plane to fly higher, see further
- RIMPAC 2018 Important to Validating Command and Control of Multinational Task Groups
- Chinese naval hospital ship Ark Peace starts visit to Fiji
- Mice that roar: patrol and coastal combatants in ASEAN
- Gas Production Begins at Ichthys LNG Project
- US-China Maritime Trade Flows (Editor – open the pdf offered, it’s a bit long but useful graphs)
- 169 Ships Sent to South Asian Shipbreakers in Second Quarter 2018
- Da Nang Upgrades Tien Sa Port
- Modern Chinese warplanes: Chinese naval avaition – aircraft and units
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- As Turkish democracy declines, what’s the role for fellow NATO members?
- Tensions with Turkey escalate in wake of US sanctions (Editor – punative sanctions against a NATO country?!)
- Intrepid French hunt for sunken warships Cordelière and Regent
- Salvors Commence Emergency Tow of Damaged Car Carrier Off Sweden
- Icebreaking LNG Carrier Christophe de Margerie Sets New Northern Sea Route Record
- RIB Circumnavigates Iceland in 42 Hours
- CMA CGM’s 22,000 TEU Ships to Feature ‘Bulbless’ Bow Made for Slow-Steaming
- Video: A Special Module Carrier Breaks the Ice (Editor – and the associated Youtube video)
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MIDDLE EAST
- Iran Raises Tensions With Military Exercises Simulating Closure Of Straits Of Hormuz
- Did the Houthis sink a warship or hit an oil tanker?
- Israel Warns Iran of Military Response if Key Red Sea Shipping Lane is Closed
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GLOBAL INTERESTS
- Seoul deploys warship to Libya after South Korean, Filipinos kidnapped
- Can the World’s Ports and Terminals Take the Strain as Container Throughput Rises?
- Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Port and Shipping Industry
- Liberia Becomes Fastest Growing Flag in Shipping
- Plastic pollution: How one woman found a new source of warming gases hidden in waste
- First woman wins Clipper round-the-world yacht race
- DNV GL Tanker Update 2018
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- Royal Canadian Navy 2018 | Knowledge Bank (Editor – useful basic video for explaining the types of current RCN vesels)