Find out about the warships and visitors from the Royal Navy and international navies that have visited the Thames
A LANDING Craft Utility vessel from HMS BULWARK was open to the public at St Katherine Docks over the weekend. Albion-class BULWARK, currently moored at Greenwich, can carry four large MK10 LCUs in her well deck and four smaller MK5s on her sides. It was one of the MK10 landing craft that disembarked BULWARK and continued further up river to …
THE TYPE-23 frigate HMS MONTROSE (F236) is at West India Dock for her first ever visit to London. The Duke-class vessel arrived at about 3am on Thursday morning. Although not open to the public on this visit, a number of engagements have been held on board involving youth groups, schools and the local community. A fundraising event on board in …
The Royal Navy’s flagship HMS BULWARK has lights threaded around it to create this effect in the evening.
HMS BULWARK L15 arrived in London yesterday lunchtime for a visit to help mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Marines. The flagship of the Royal Navy reached Greenwich at about 1pm at moored at Greenwich Shipping Tier. The Albion-class vessel will be open to the public this weekend, although tickets for this are all gone. She will be hosting …
MANY of the famous Dunkirk Little Ships attended a commemorative rally at Chatham Maritime on the Medway this weekend. The historic vessels helped save hundreds of thousands of troops from the beaches of Dunkirk during the second World War. Operation Dynamo started seventy-four years ago today and lasted until June 4th, 1940. Dozens of the heroic ships attended the Bank …
A GERMAN frigate arrived in London this morning for a five day visit. The visit by the Bremen-class FGS NIEDERSACHSEN comes days after the visit by a German minesweeper squadron. The 130-metre vessel passed Gravesend shortly before 6am this morning (pictured above and below) and continued up river, passing under a raised Tower Bridge at 8am where she moored alongside …
THE FLAGSHIP of the British navy is to visit Greenwich at the end of this month. HMS BULWARK is expected to arrive in the capital on May 29th and will moor at Greenwich.The visit by the 176-metre vessel, currently under the command of Captain Dean Bassett RN, will help mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Marines. The Albion-class assault ship …
THE GERMAN minesweeper squadron that visited London over the weekend has now departed the capital. The visiting contingent included four Ensdorf-class Minesweeper vessels, four Seehund remotely controlled drone ships, the Elbe-class tender Mosel (pictured above) and Ammersee, a coastal tanker. The departure of the fleet started last night and finished early this morning. On Saturday, the German navy welcomed members of …
AN ARRAY of German naval vessels have arrived at London’s West India Dock for a port visit. The armada of German hardware includes three Ensdorf-class minesweepers: SIEGBURG, AUERBACH/OBERPFALZ and HAMELN. These 55-metre vessels are the motherships to the drone SEEHUND vessels, which are capable of being remotely controlled. Also part of the visit are the Walchensee class tanker, AMMERSEE, and the Elbe-class …
ARCHER-class patrol vessel HMS TRUMPETER was inbound this morning, passing cruise ship MARCO POLO at the Tilbury landing stage. TRUMPETER came in with sister vessel HMS SMITER and passed outbound HMS PUNCHER in the estuary. The two inbound vessels were heading for the Royal Naval reservists base HMS President which is where PUNCHER had departed from earlier in the morning.
