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RSV NUYINA – AUSTRALIA’S ANTARCTIC ICEBREAKER
Bairdmaritime provides a review of Australia’s new icebreaking research and supply vessel. Looking for more information, I found a very extensive description here (click on the menu tab on the upper...
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“HHI To Build Six New OPVs For The Philippine Navy”–Naval News
Philippine Navy OPV to be built by HHI in S. Korea. HHI image. Naval News reports, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) signed a contract with the Philippine Department of National Defense on June 27th to...
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Austal Awarded Contract for Offshore Patrol Cutter Stage 2
Below is the announcement from Coast Guard headquarters. Some comments first. The contract award, $208.26 million, does not actually include construction of the first cutter, presumably that will be...
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“Eastern Shipbuilding Group takes next step for first Heritage class cutter...
Future US Coast Guard’s Heritage class cutter Argus (Picture source: Eastern Shipbuilding Group) Navy Recognition reports, According to a tweet published by Eastern Shipbuilding Group on July 12, 2022,...
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“EASTERN SHIPBUILDING GROUP ANNOUNCES KEEL AUTHENTICATION FOR THIRD UNITED...
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. photo Below is a news release from Eastern Shipbuilding, quoted in full. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2022 EASTERN SHIPBUILDING GROUP ANNOUNCES KEEL...
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“Eastern Shipbuilding protesting Austal’s cutter win, cites ‘unfair...
Future US Coast Guard’s Heritage class cutter Argus (Picture source: Eastern Shipbuilding Group) Breaking Defense reports, WASHINGTON: Eastern Shipbuilding Group is formally protesting a Coast Guard...
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“Blount Boats delivers icebreaking buoy tender”–Marine Log
Marine Log reports, Delivered earlier this year by the Blount Boats shipyard in Warren, R.I., an icebreaking buoy tender ordered in July 2020, the M/V Eddie Somers, is now in service with the Maryland...
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“Coast Guard exercises contract option to build one fast response cutter”–CG-9
CGC BENJAMIN DAILEY, the first FRC stationed in Gulf of Mexico, conducts flight operations with a HH-65 from Air Station New Orleans. Photo by Bigshipdriver The Acquistions Directorate (CG-9) reports...
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“SOLICITATION FOR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS (SME) TO ASSESS THE OFFSHORE PATROL...
Some of you might be interested in responding to this. It also seems to suggest the future USCGC Argus is pretty far along. Maybe something similar was done earlier, but it seems late in the game to...
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“Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and...
USCG Polar Security Cutter [Image courtesy Halter Marine / Technology Associates, Inc.]The Congressional Research Service has once again updated their look at the Polar Security Cutter (heavy...
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“Turkish Dearsan Lays Keel Of First Of Two OPVs For Nigeria”–Naval News
Rendering of HE OPV-76 vessels (Screenshot from Dearsan video–via Naval News) Naval News reports, Turkish Dearsan Shipyard laid the keel of the first of two high-endurance offshore patrol vessels (HE...
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“Colombia inks deal that could see Damen build five Sigma frigates”–Defense News
Colombian Navy SIGMA frigate Defense News reports, one of our primary partners in drug interdiction efforts is expected to significantly upgrade their naval capabilities. Colombia is launching a $2...
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“Stage 2 of the Coast Guard offshore patrol cutter moves forward”–CG HQ News...
Artists rendering from Eastern Shipbuilding Group Below is a news release. Just minutes before I saw this, I recieved an email from Jessica Ditto, Eastern’s VP, Communications As you might have seen,...
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“Russia Launches Project 23550 Patrol Ship ‘Purga'”–Naval News
Official scale model of the Project 23550 ice-class patrol ship “Purga” for the Russian Coast Guard presented during the commissioning ceremony. Picture by Curious / forums.airbase.ru Naval News...
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“Damen Lays Keel Of First OPV 2600 For Pakistan Navy”–Naval News
OPV 2600 multi-mission patrol vessel rendering (Source: Damen) Naval News reports, On October 12, 2022, Damen Shipyards ceremonially laid the keel of the first multi-purpose patrol vessel OPV 2600 for...
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OPC #1 and #2 May Be Delayed
Artists rendering from Eastern Shipbuilding Group Two articles report that additional delays to both the future USCGC Argus and USCGC Chase appear likely. “Coast Guard Says Main Drive Shaft Issue Puts...
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“Bollinger to acquire Halter Marine and STEHMO”–Marine Log/Polar Icebreaker...
Photo of a model of Halter Marine’s Polar Security Cutter seen at Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exhibition have surfaced. Photo credit Chris Cavas. There are two closely related posts here that are...
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Indonesia Building Two 90 meter OPVs
Indonesia 90 meter OPV A recent Naval News report of the choice of an Electronic Warfare System for new Indonesian OPVs, with the illustration above, prompted me to find out more about these unusually...
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“Why a small shipyard merger could signal bigger problems for the US...
Polar Security Cutter. Image credit VT Halter Marine. Breaking Defense reports, “…there are factors specific to Halter Marine that may have made it ripe for takeover. But analysts told Breaking Defense...
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Want to Buy an Icebreaker?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Coast Guard is planning to buy the icebreaking, anchor-handling tug-supply vessel Aiviq, “U.S. Looks to Buy Private Icebreaker to Help Patrol Contested...
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