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Montevideo, May 6th 2025 - 12:53 UTC

Tag: Chilean Navy

  • Thursday, October 24th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    Chile's brand new icebreaker receives combat flag

    This flag “has a deep meaning for all of us who have the privilege of wearing the naval uniform,” Captain Henríquez said

    The Chilean Navy's icebreaker AGB-46 Almirante Viel received her combat flag during a cermony at the Talcahuano Naval Base. Viel Captain Juan Pablo Henríquez took delivery on Tuesday of the symbolic item from Chilean Maritime League President Admiral (ret.) Edmundo González.

  • Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 09:15 UTC

    Chilean fisherman rescued from cold Pacific Ocean waters

    Police Lieutenant Carlos Campos said the drones were pivotal for the operation's success

    Chilean authorities used a thermal drone to locate in the Magellan Strait area and later rescue a fisherman from the Pacific Ocean, it was reported Monday. The man later identified as Sergio Brito was wearing adequate clothing, thanks to which he survived the cold temperatures. In addition, he clung to seaweed while waiting for Carabineros and the Navy.

  • Wednesday, June 5th 2024 - 09:34 UTC

    USS George Washington crosses into Chilean waters

    The USS George Washington is due in Valparaíso on June 11

    Chile's Navy confirmed Tuesday through a posting on X that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington had crossed the Strait of Magellan into Pacific Ocean waters and was on her way to Valparaíso. Accompanying the vessel were the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) and the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet tanker USNS John Lenthall (T-AO-189).

  • Saturday, April 20th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

    Chile's new icebreaker completes first week at sea

    The new Almirante Viel is to be launched on Dec. 22

    The new Chilean-built “Almirante Viel” icebreaker completed her first week of sea testing on Friday, it was reported in Santiago.

  • Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 06:56 UTC

    Chilean navy adds submarine to keep track of foreign fishing fleets

    A Scorpene-class attack submarine was deployed on a fisheries-enforcement patrol in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago and further south. (Pic Chilean Navy)

    The Chilean Navy has bolstered patrol operations against illegal fishing in the South Pacific region and keeping track of fishing vessels crossing into the South Atlantic. Normally operations are the task of naval surface vessels and air surveillance, but last week it took the unusual step of deploying a Scorpene-class attack submarine on a fisheries-enforcement patrol in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago and further south.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 11:26 UTC

    Chile keeps track of the Chinese jigger fleet crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific

    A Chilean navy officer shows the trajectory of some of the Chinese jiggers as they move along the Pacific coast

    The Chilean Navy and the country's National Fisheries Service, Sernapesca, reported that they are keeping track of the “devastating” Chinese fleet sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans and currently sailing north along the Chilean coast line, after ending its squid season.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 09:01 UTC

    Chile launches the first icebreaker made in South America

    She cost US$ 215 million, displaces some 13,000 tons and was co-designed with Vard Marines shipbuilders from Canada

    The first icebreaker built in Latin America, Almirante Oscar Viel, was launched last week from the state-run naval ASMAR shipyard in Talcahuano, Chile after five years of construction

  • Monday, December 5th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Jiggers have started crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic, reports Chilean Navy

    Chilean Navy is keeping track of the expected 200 vessels crossing the Magellan Strait

    The Chilean Navy said it is keeping track of the international fishing fleet (mostly jiggers), transiting through the Magellan Strait from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean which started in November.

  • Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    First Chilean-built icebreaker 60% complete

    The new icebreaker new is more than 60% complete

    At a total cost of around US$ 210 million, Chile's first home-built icebreaker is already 60% complete and plans to be seaworthy by the time of the XII International Naval Exhibition and Congress in Valparaíso in December, it was reported.

  • Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:48 UTC

    Strong quake felt in Peru, Chile and Bolivia

    No fatalities have been reported

    A strong earthquake rocked Chile, Perú, and Bolivia Thursday morning. Authorities in the three countries are still to release detailed reports on the aftermath of the event.

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