Tag: HMS Dauntless

• Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 08:33 UTC

  HMS Dauntless joins Colombian navy 200th anniversary and Unitas Exercise with 20 countries

  

  The Royal Navy’s most advanced destroyer has completed a large-scale exercise off the coast of Colombia, marking a return to full front-line action after a major overhaul.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2016 - 06:56 UTC

  “Falklands remains well protected” says MoD brushing aside London media claims

  The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MoD) has rubbished claims that the Falkland Islands have been left without protection, due to the absence of a British warship (frigate or destroyer) permanently based in the south Atlantic. The MoD defended itself following reports that the Falkland Islands were “without the protection of a British frigate or destroyer for the first time since the conflict in 1982”.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2012 - 14:15 UTC

  HMS Dauntless in Portsmouth after South Atlantic deployment; HMS Edinburgh on her way

  

  After a six-month deployment to the South Atlantic, including a patrol and exercises in the Falkland Islands, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless has returned to her home port in Portsmouth, southern England.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2012 - 06:24 UTC

  HMS Dauntless called in Colombia and joined major UNITAS naval exercise

  

  After a major naval exercise in the Caribbean with the participation of 13 warships from several countries of the Americas and following some anti-drugs patrolling in the Caribbean HMS Dauntless is expected back in Portsmouth at the end of October.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 20:01 UTC

  HMS Edinburgh on South Atlantic patrol; last deployment for Type 42 destroyers

  

  The Royal Navy’s destroyer HMS Edinburgh left on Monday Portsmouth on her final planned deployment. It marks a historic milestone for both the ship and the Royal Navy as it will be the last time a Type 42 destroyer deploys on operations as they make way for the new-generation Type 45 destroyers.

• Friday, August 17th 2012 - 07:08 UTC

  Falklands’ residents share HMS Dauntless ‘secrets’ during a reception on board

  

  Falkland Islands residents and the local media discovered the ‘secrets’ of ultra modern Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless last weekend at Mare Harbour following her journey to the South Atlantic via Africa and a stop off at Tristan da Cunha.

• Monday, August 13th 2012 - 23:14 UTC

  HMS Dauntless in Falklands after spending four months in West Africa

  

  The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless arrived last week to the Falkland Islands in the last leg of its six month deployment in the South Atlantic, spending most of the time along the West African coast.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 18:24 UTC

  HMS Dauntless in South Africa; will pay courtesy visit to the Falklands

  

  The Royal Navy’s Daring class Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless is in Cape Town, mid-way through her six-month deployment to the Falklands relieving HMS Montrose according to British defence news.

• Thursday, May 17th 2012 - 11:27 UTC

  The name HMS Dauntless is no newcomer for the Falkland Islands

  

  In anticipation of the imminent arrival in the Falkland Islands of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless, local historian and author John Allan writes that her predecessor was posted to the Islands in the 1930s.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2012 - 07:44 UTC

  HMS Dauntless en route to Falklands participates in 11 nations exercise

  

  HMS Dauntless impressed the members of other navies during a multinational exercise in the Atlantic last week to practise improving security at sea. Exercise Saharan Express, which took place off the coast of Senegal, saw military personnel from 11 nations, including France, Gambia, Senegal and Morocco, training to deal with people-trafficking, piracy, drug-smuggling and illegal fishing.