Tag: HMS Forth

• Saturday, February 4th 2023 - 07:58 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Forth on maintenance; replaced by HMS Medway

  

  The British Forces South Atlantic Command this week welcomed the arrival of HMS Medway at Mare Harbor. HMS Medway is a Batch 2 River class offshore patrol vessel, currently commissioned and since 2019 assigned long-term as Royal Navy guard ship in the Caribbean.

• Saturday, January 28th 2023 - 10:52 UTC

  A hot tempered ambassador and will Falklands' HMS Forth be allowed to dock in Chile

  

  The leak of an audio message with no kind words from the Chilean foreign ministry top staff and advisors towards the Argentine ambassador in Chile, Rafael Bielsa, triggered a severe incident between the two neighboring countries which was finally contained by both sides with a cascade of compliments for the top figures involved.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 22:06 UTC

  Falklands: HMS Forth and MPA personnel honor HMS Glamorgan, the last vessel damaged in 1982

  

  Sailors and military personnel in the Falkland Islands saluted the last Royal Navy ship damaged in the 1982 conflict, according to a Royal Navy report. A small group from HMS Forth – the patrol ship which serves as the Islands’ constant guardian – and Mount Pleasant gathered at Hookers Point outside Stanley and the imposing monument of Welsh granite erected to HMS Glamorgan.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 23:33 UTC

  Royal Navy takes bomb disposal experts to South Georgia to remove Falklands War munitions

  

  The Royal Navy's HMS Forth has taken bomb disposal specialists to South Georgia as part of a mission to protect the island's wildlife. The ten-day environmental mission set out to remove bombs and ordnance left behind during the Falkland Islands conflict involving the Argentine armed forces in 1982.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Combined exercise, sea, air and infantry landing, in the Falkland Islands

  

  HMS Forth joined the Army and RAF in a combined exercise in one of the islands in the Falklands. After a busy ‘remembrance season’ in the South Atlantic, which saw the patrol ship retrace the route of ships and troops involved in the 1982 conflict, the second-generation River-class vessel knuckled down to more regular military duties.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Falkland Islands commemorates Landing Day, 38 years ago, in San Carlos

  

  The Falkland Islands commemorated on Thursday Landing Day, 38 years ago when British Forces took several beaches in San Carlos settlement beginning the recovery of Islands territory.

• Friday, April 17th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Falklands' patrol vessel HMS Forth maiden visit to South Georgia

  

  The Falkland Islands' patrol vessel HMS Forth crossed 850 miles of icy ocean to patrol the waters around the South Atlantic territory’s archipelago of South Georgia. The 2,000-ton ship arrived in the Falklands at the beginning of the year as the islands’ new patrol ship, replacing the smaller HMS Clyde.

• Saturday, March 14th 2020 - 09:48 UTC

  Falklands HMS Forth honors officers and crew members from SMS Scharnhorst sunk in 1914

  

  Falklands patrol HMS Forth hosted a wreath-laying ceremony in Falkland Islands waters during a remembrance service honouring those who lost their lives aboard SMS Scharnhorst in 1914.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  HMS Scott honors HMS Antelope sunk in the Falklands' Sound

  

  On a grey midsummer day in the Southern Hemisphere, the crew of HMS Scott pause for reflection over one of the Navy’s most hallowed sites. Ten meters below this spot, sitting upright, almost snapped in two, is the shattered hull of frigate HMS Antelope, torn apart by a series of explosions after bomb disposal experts triggered an unexploded device, in turn detonating the ship’s magazine.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:48 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Clyde decommissioned in Portsmouth before its future life with the Brazilian Navy

  

  A Royal Naval patrol vessel has returned to its home base in Portsmouth for the final time after spending 12 years on patrol around the Falkland Islands. Sailors and crew of the HMS Clyde have taken part in a decommissioning ceremony for the 13-year-old vessel before it is turned back over the BAE Systems for its future life in Brazil.