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HMS Trent is a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel, named after the River Trent.This is the sixth Royal Navy ship named Trent.She is the third Batch 2 River-class vessel to be commissioned and is forward deployed to Gibraltar for operations in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Guinea.
HMS Teviot Bank was a Bank Line steamship that was built in England in 1938 as the cargo ship Teviotbank. In the Second World War she was a Royal Navy auxiliary minelayer. By 1956 a Panamanian company had bought her and renamed her Nella. She was scrapped in Italy in 1971. This was the first of two Bank Line ships called Teviotbank.
USNS John Glenn (T-ESD-2), (formerly MLP-2) [3] is a United States Navy Expeditionary Transfer Dock ship named in honor of John Glenn, a Naval Aviator, retired United States Marine Corps colonel, veteran of World War II and the Korean War, astronaut, and United States senator.
In January 2023, the Navy announced that three Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) had been approved in the 2023 military budget. These will be T-EMS-1 , T-EMS-2 , and T-EMS-3 . These are planned to be about 118m versus the earlier ships 103 metres (338 ft), and have a draft of 4.5 metres (15 ft) for operations in "austere ports".
On March 16, 2016, the World Bank Group announced its debarment of Damen Shipyards Gorinchem for 18 months. As stated in a press release on the World Bank official website : "The company engaged in a fraudulent practice under the West Africa Regional Fisheries Program" [2]
Construction of the ship was authorized on 30 June 2016. [7] In July 2016, Ray Mabus, then United States Secretary of the Navy, advised Congress that he intended to name the ship in honor Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States. [8] The ship had her keel laid during a ceremony on 30 April 2022.
The ship was delivered to Military Sealift Command on 22 February 2018, [4] and placed into service the same day. [6] Hershel "Woody" Williams will be the first Navy ship other than the Littoral Combat Ship to deploy the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout rotary-wing UCAV. [13] The ship was commissioned by the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia on 7 March ...
HMS Springbank was a Royal Navy fighter catapult ship of the Second World War.. Originally a cargo ship built in 1926 for Bank Line it was acquired by the Admiralty at the start of the war and converted to an "auxiliary anti-aircraft cruiser" by the addition of four twin 4-inch (102 mm) gun turrets and two quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) "pom-pom"s.