Tag: navy

A New Zealand military inquiry has revealed that a series of human errors contributed to the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui in October 2024.

On 12 March the oil tanker Olavo Bilac lost control of its rudder and collided with three navy patrol boats at the Port of Santos.

On 28 January the Moroccan Royal Navy conducted two emergency evacuations for crew members aboard foreign vessels.

Mistakes by members of the crew caused New Zealand navy ship HMNZS Manawanui to plow into a reef catching fire and sinking.

The duty commander of a Norwegian Navy frigate that sank in 2018 after colliding with an oil tanker was found guilty of negligence by a Norwegian court.

A French navy vessel operating in the Middle East as part of a US-led coalition seized four separate shipments of drugs worth $108 million over the past month, according to an announcement of the coalition. 

According to the Portuguese Navy, the Lisbon Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) received a distress call via platform 112 about 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, regarding a fire aboard the tanker Greta K. 

On November 28, a Danish court found a Nigerian man guilty of endangering the lives of Danish soldiers in a shooting incident on November 2021, involving the Danish frigate Esbern Snare and a crew of alleged Nigerian pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Italian Navy is helping the tanker B. Ocean after it was robbed and left disabled by pirates, in the Gulf of Guinea.

Nigeria wants to prosecute Danish forces that were involved in the exchange of fire with alleged pirates in the Gulf of Guinea in November 2021. The African country also demands the release of a citizen that is being tried in Denmark after a fatal firefight.