NAC News – Edition – T275 HMS Baffin
Yes “HMS”, built in Collingwood ON, a Western Isle Trawler, crewed by the RN, but loaned to the RCN for minesweeping service from Halifax, similar to last weeks T274 HMS Anticosti that was incorrectly labelled HMCS)
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Editor NAC News
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Keep in touch with the RCN
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NOTICES
- GoFundMe for Admiral Norman’s Legal Defence (After 8 months 1,255 people have contributed $161,550 towards the $200,00 goal)
- 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
- The RCN, CAF, RCAF, and Canada will say farewell to the workhorse of the RCAF, the CH-124 Sea King helicopter 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2018. Tickets are going fast, here are the programme details
- 6thAnnual ShipTech Forum Ottawa, ON 5 March 2019
- 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
- 2018 Summer edition of Starshell
- ★ CSC design winner announced and, second article , and third article
- Suspended vice-admiral’s lawyers demand government produce secret documents
- Federal minister plays down contacts with Irving before suspending rival’s deal
- Top general’s communications with Trudeau, media to come under spotlight as Mark Norman case proceeds
- Trudeau Is Denying Vice-Admiral Mark Norman A Fair Trial, Conservatives Allege
- ★ Feds aiming to select preferred design for $60B warships by end of month
- ★ Irving Shipbuilding pushing for two more Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships, all Halifax-class work
- Building Harry DeWolf – Chapter 2 (Editor – Chapter 1 last week)
- Building Harry DeWolf – Chapter 3
- Media Advisory – Ships Stay Here rally to keep jobs in Halifax
- Game Changer: Thomas D. Irvine, Dominion President, The Royal Canadian Legion
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USA & AMERICAS
- USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Oct. 15, 2018
- Atlantico: Brazil’s new carrier
- Fabrication Begins on Future Big Deck USS Bougainville
- Coast Guard Offloads Cocaine, Marijuana Seized in the Caribbean Basin
- Navy Developing New Mine Countermeasures USV for Littoral Combat Ships
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Maritime Commerce Strategic Outlook released
- Trump signs Alaska-backed bill targeting plastic trash in Ocean
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INDO-PACIFIC
- R.O.K. Navy International Fleet Review in Jeju – South Korea (Editor – impressive Fleet Review, HMCS Calgary participation)
- Royal Canadian Navy signs MOU with Republic of Korea Fleet Command
- Taiwan war game to mimic Chinese aircraft carrier attack
- China and ASEAN to hold joint naval exercises
- Pakistan Navy commissions fleet tanker PNS Moawin
- Taiwan plays down US Navy port call Beijing labels a threat
- Government faces tough decisions on transition to future submarines
- Should nuclear-powered submarines be part of Australia’s future?
- Japanese Amphibious Soldiers Hit the Beach in the Philippines with U.S. Marines, 7th Fleet
- Proudly the Philippines received two submarines which were not easy for other countries to get it!
- World’s Largest LNG Bunker Vessel Sails for Delivery
- NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 24 Deaths Recorded at Beaching Yards in South Asia
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ATLANTIC & EUROPE
- NATO Maritime Operations: SECGEN, SACEUR Embark Truman
- The end of Scandinavian non-alignment
- UK shipyards to submit bids to build 5 Royal Navy warships
- Two Caspian flotilla missile corvettes return to Russia from Mediterranean Sea
- Turkish Navy Stops Greek Frigate ‘Harassment’ in Mediterranean (Editor – NATO countries!)
- HMS Tamar is launched as HMS Medway gears up for maiden voyage
- ★ Last three reactor compartments from Cold War subs to be pulled from Russia’s waters next year
- In 2020, the World’s Longest Vessel Will Be a Fish Farm
- Video: Ems Transfer of AIDAnova
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MIDDLE EAST
- A First: China, EU Launch New Combined Military Exercise
- Iranian Drone Overflights of U.S. Warships in Persian Gulf Now Common
- Lyme Bay arrives in Middle East for UK’s biggest war game since 2001
- ★ Will the Khashoggi crisis create an oil war? (Editor – lucid video)
- With Few Buyers, Iranian Oil Armada Heads to China Ahead of U.S. Sanctions
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GLOBAL INTERESTS
- ★ ExxonMobil engine Insights video: evolving landscape (Editor – excellent video)
- Arctic Sea Ice is Youngest and Thinnest Now
- Ship Owners Scramble to Install Scrubbers Ahead of IMO 2020
- Ocean Cleanup Arrives at Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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SCUTTLEBUTT
- Worst Nightmare for America’s Enemies! U.S. Navy X-47B Drone Could Be Reborn (Editor – YouTube video, what potential!)
- Reload dan Penembakan Peluncur Roket Anti Kapal Selam RBU-6000 (Editor – a Soviet weapon system, but I never thought I’d see a sales video!)