NAC News – Edition 267 HMCS Digby a 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 6 months 1,107 people have contributed $138,910 towards the $200,00 goal)
- 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) - ★ The NAC-VI Branch will host the first of what is hoped to be an annual RAINBOW Dinner on Saturday 20 October 2018 from 1730 – 2200 at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. The cost for this gala event is $100 per person and limited to 100 dinners. To acquire tickets email the Treasurer at treasurervina@gmail.com
- 2018 Submariner’s Gathering – 50th Anniversary of HMCS Okanagan & Rainbow Commisioning 4 November 2018 in Victoria. To Register call 250-812-1840 or visit the link
- 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
- ★ Canada’s Outgoing Defence Attaché: U.S. and Canada Still Have Each Other’s Back (Editor – simple a must read article, it should be more widely published in Canada!)
- Boarding ships and air attacks: Operation Nanook begins in Labrador Sea
- Canada’s Combat Ship Team Submits Bid
- Canada’s Combat Ship Procurement Process
- Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record
- Federal government announces over $115 million to Royal Canadian Navy
- ON TARGET: Canadians know too little about Armed Forces
- HMCS Ottawa Commended by US Coast Guard
- Canada Upgrading MK 46 Torpedoes to Modern MK 54 Standard
- Shipbuilding: Seaspan Shipyards & Building Canada’s Future
- Boom Times Continue at Port of Prince Rupert
- No changes planned to push Irving out of National Shipbuilding Strategy: Brison
- Government of Canada awards contract under the Oceans Protection Plan to increase emergency offshore towing capability off British Columbia coast
- World Wildlife Fund raises alarm about harmful ‘grey water’ in Canada’s Arctic
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USA & AMERICAS
- The US Navy’s fight to fix its worn-out Super Hornet fleet is making way
- Pentagon Report to Congress on Chinese Military Development
- Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Will Deploy to Colombia to Care for Venezuelan Refugees
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Aug. 20, 2018
- Newly reorganized littoral combat ship program faces its first big test in 2019
- How stealthy are the world’s subs?
- Goggins Assumes Command of PEO Submarines
- Report to Congress on Navy LPD-17 Flight II (LX(R)) Amphibious Ship Program
- USS John S. McCain Collision, A Year Later
- Report to Congress on Littoral Combat Ship Program
- Report to Congress on U.S. Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Program
- ★ One of the World’s Largest Cruise Ships Maneuvers into St. Thomas (Editor – great instructive video)
- New Law Allows Patriotic American Superyacht Owners to Finally Fly U.S. Flag
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INDO-PACIFIC
- Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group Out on Patrol
- New Tariffs Worth $34 Billion Kick-in as United States-China Trade War Intensifies
- Australia Broadens its Military Relationship with Shipbuilding Deals
- Japan sends helicopter carrier to South China Sea
- Keel laid for Royal New Zealand Navy’s future HMNZS Aotearoa
- Singapore Navy Launches Seventh New Littoral Mission Vessel
- China shifts to Iranian tankers ahead of oil import ban: report
- Dorado: Australia’s Biggest Oil Discovery This Century
- UK investigates WW2 shipwreck looting claims
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- ★ The UK’s giant aircraft carriers
- HMS Queen Elizabeth sets off for F-35B fighter jet trials
- First Sea Lord takes the salute at BRNC Dartmouth
- Tideforce’s arrival completes quartet of new tankers for Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- New Zealand Navy Buys OSV from Østensjø Rederi
- New tech lets submarines ’email’ planes
- ★ Meyer Werft Floats AIDAnova, the World’s First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship
- Russia is preparing to search for a nuclear-powered missile that was lost at sea months ago after a failed test
- Container ship to break the ice on Russian Arctic route
- Russia’s military lead on Arctic shelf mapping stands trial for fraud
- The travel guides that charted our world
- ★ Mumbai Maersk Loads World Record 19,038 TEU (Editor – I wonder what the cargo is worth?)
- Shipbuilding in Sweden: Oresund Dry Docks
- Illegal Salvors Fined for Plunder of WW1 Shipwreck
- Record Low Danube Hinders Shipping in Hungary
- Hapag-Lloyd Adds 11,100 Reefer Containers
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MIDDLE EAST
- Marine Lt. Gen. McKenzie Nominated to Lead U.S. Central Command
- Saudi-Led Coalition Foils Houthi Attacks on Merchant Vessels –Spokesman
- Russia says 63,000 troops have seen combat in Syria
- Bring Australia’s Navy home from the Middle East
- US, Iraq, Kuwait Complete Trilateral Exercise
- Sons of Sa’ar? Israel’s Next Generation Frigates
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GLOBAL INTERESTS
- Tanker with 19 Crew Missing in Piracy-Plagued West African Waters
- Fuel Markets Confirm Global Growth Slowdown: Kemp
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- Canadian Submarine History (Editor – great pics in this NAC member produced video)
- Royal Canadian Navy – Rigid-hulled Inflatable Boat (RHIB) Ride (Editor – fun recent look at Bedford Basin and Hfx Hbr)