Tag: US Navy

On 5th July, U.S. forces prevented two attempted commercial tanker seizures by the Iranian Navy after the Iranians had opened fire in one of the incidents near the coast of Oman. 

US and Royal Navy personnel responded to a distress call, on June 4th, from a cargo vessel traversing the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian fast-attack vessels harassed the ship.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced USNS Bethesda as the name of the new medical ship that will provide medical care around the world. 

On May 3 at approximately 6:20 a.m. local time, Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi was seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

A total of 19 personnel fell overboard, when the small boat that they were in, became unbalanced and tipped as it was lifted to the hospital ship USNS Comfort, on December 12.

Navy vessels from Australia and New Zealand will be exempt from a temporary ban on foreign ships entering the ports of the Solomon Islands, the Pacific island nation’s prime minister told parliament on Monday.

The US Navy will reward individuals for reporting information that leads to the detection of illegal maritime activity or seizure of illicit cargo in waters across the Middle East.

A US judge said the owner of an oil tanker must pay the US $44.6 million for its role in a 2017 collision between the tanker with a US Navy destroyer in southeast Asia that killed 10 sailors and injured dozens.

Kleos Space announced an agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Division, Crane (NSWC Crane) for joint data experimentation for the improvement of maritime domain awareness.

Yemen's Houthi rebels launched at least one missile into the busy waters of Red Sea over the weekend, according to the U.S. Navy, thus increasing the risk of their fire striking one of the many commercial vessels using a waterway crucial to global shipping.