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The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) [3] Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM, RAN. The Chief of Navy is also jointly responsible to the Minister for Defence (MINDEF) and the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF).
The Navy is currently developing its first nuclear submarine. [74] The Navy planned to have the Scorpène-class submarines in service in 2017, and their first nuclear-powered submarine commissioned in 2023. [75] In August 2008 the Navy incorporated the corvette Barroso, which was designed and built in Brazil [76] at a cost of $263 million. [77]
Former Point-class coastal cutters of the US Coast Guard. Philippine Navy received several units transferred by the US government and formerly used by the South Vietnamese Navy, but were sold for scrap due to poor condition. Two units were transferred to the Philippine Navy as part of US Military Assistance in 1999 and 2001.
The Navy in New Zealand: An Illustrated History, AH & AW Reed, 1981. Terence Herrick, Into the blue : a New Zealander in the Royal Navy (1997; memoirs). Herrick was NOIC Auckland, 1954-56 (Dreadnought Project). McGibbon, Ian C. (1981). Blue-water Rationale: The naval defence of New Zealand, 1914–1942. Wellington: Government Printer.
Whiskey 601 is the regularly used name for an often used naval weapons exercise area off the west coast of Canada. The area's official title was "W-601". The name was usually shortened to "Whiskey" [1] by sailors in the Royal Canadian Navy. Whiskey 601 was notorious for rough seas and bad weather.
Seized by the Soviet Navy in 1940, scrapped after 1948 [21] k/k Imanta: 1926 1926 1940 Built by A et C Augustin Normand in Le Havre. Seized by the Soviet Navy in 1940, sunk 1 July 1941 west of Soela Strait [22] [23] Patrol; P-03 Linga Norway: Storm: Patrol boat 1968 2012 Awaiting deconstruction in scrapyard. P-04 Bulta: 1967 2011 Scrapped in ...
The Acts of Union 1707 declared that the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland were "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [p] [38] The term "United Kingdom" has occasionally been used as a description for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although its official name from 1707 to 1800 was simply "Great Britain". [39]
One of the first gunboats of the Marine Royale French and Belgian warships during the Rio Nuñez Incident in West Africa, 1849. The Belgian Navy was created as the Marine Royale (English: Royal Navy) on 15 January 1831. [5] This force has operated in various forms throughout Belgian history.