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Monday 30 April 2018

MV Loch Riddon














MV Loch Riddon making her way through the Tan on her way to Largs.

Primula (M924)









BNS Primula (M924) is a Tripartite-class minehunter of the Belgian Naval Component, launched on 20 December 1990 at the Mercantile-Belyard shipyard in Rupelmonde and christened by Mrs. Adriaensens, the wife of the then Mayor of Willebroek, on 12 June 1991. The patronage of Primula was accepted by the city of Willebroek. It was the tenth and last of the Belgian Tripartite-class minehunters.

She underwent major modernisation works in 2004-2005, such as the replacement of the PAP-mine hunting system and 20mm-gun.

Wednesday 25 April 2018

Sunday 22 April 2018

USNS William McLean (T-AKE-12)






USNS William McLean (T-AKE 12) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of William McLean, a United States Navy physicist, who conceived and developed the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile