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HMS Spey currently in Tahiti collecting supplies has been tasked to sail to Tonga to assist with the relief effort.

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 4418918408
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HMS Tamar enforces UN sanctions against North Korea

Royal Navy warship HMS Tamar joined the international effort to enforce UN sanctions on North Korea.
Tamar carried out a patrol of the East China Sea to prevent fuel or refined petrol being delivered to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – sanctions imposed by the United Nations to target the country’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and ballistic missile programmes.

Despite rough weather, the Portsmouth-based offshore patrol vessel gathered evidence of a ship believed to be have been in breach of those sanctions, information which was passed on to the Enforcement Coordination Cell, based in Yokosuka, Japan.

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HMS Spey Sailed from Tahiti yesterday carrying relief supplies including 30,000 litres of drinking water and 400 first aid kits.

Also see - https://twitter.com/RoyalNavy/status/14 ... 5647162368
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SPEY

HMS Spey loaded fresh water supplies in Tahiti last week. due to arrive in Tonga and join the multi-national aid effort very soon.
See - https://twitter.com/HMS_Spey/status/1485403516885688323

Note the self-loading capability of the OPVs. (Using the 16 tonne crane)
See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 4468166656
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Forth flies the flag as she replaces the Union Jack at historic Falklands site


Sailors from HMS Forth raised the Union Flag on the site of the first British settlement in the Falklands – replacing one battered by the fierce South Atlantic elements.

The bleak, remote settlement of Port Egmont was inhabited for less than a decade and abandoned nearly 250 years ago.

But the site is marked to this day with the Union Flag flying over the foundations of the handful of buildings which once formed the small 18th Century settlement on Saunders Island.

It’s the duty of the Royal Navy’s current patrol ship permanently based in the islands to visit outlying islands and communities and also maintain some of the memorials peppered around the Falklands when opportunity arises.

The British flag was first planted on what is now Saunders Island – the fourth largest in the Falklands, around 100 miles west of the present-day capital Stanley – on January 23 1765 by Commodore John Byron.

He described it as “one of the finest harbours in the world. The whole Navy of England might ride in perfect security from all winds.”

To mark the 257th anniversary of the landing, Forth’s sailors hoisted a fresh flag on the pole.

The shrill note of the boatswain’s call pierced the Falklands winds as the new flag was hoisted in a unique set of ‘Colours’ and the sailors saluted.

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Royal Navy aid efforts in Tonga hold personal importance for St Vincent sailor


For sailor Glenroy Cupid the Royal Navy's aid efforts in Tonga hold personal importance after seeing his homeland of St Vincent in the Caribbean suffer in the wake of its own natural disaster last year.
Supply Chain Rating Cupid is a logistician aboard HMS Spey as the patrol ship helps the international aid effort in the Pacific islands following a devastating tsunami caused by an underwater volcano eruption.

Among the 50 sailors on aboard are others like Glenroy who are from fellow Commonwealth nations and have a great sense of pride in helping another country from the global network of nations.

For SC Cupid, though, there has been added emotion this week during the delivery of crucial aid – including bottled water, sanitary products and medical supplies – to Tongan capital Nuku’alofa on the island of Tongatapu.

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HMS Trent has spent the last week at sea training for upcoming NATO tasking.
Currently in the eastern Med off Crete.
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SEVERN

Exchange of comments on Twitter:
Fuego - HMS Severn hove to in the Solent right now - Storm Eunice.
G. McDermott - Seen bigger goffas in the NAAFI fridge.
Severn - Completely agree. Nice day out in the Solent, but a little bit nippy.
Wings & Rockets - And just think, later someone will be cleaning the heads for evening rounds.
Severn - We all have ensuite heads here - you would'nt recognise it!
Cherry 100% - Bet there are a few feeling green.
Severn - Absolutely not! We're busy doing a main machinery fire exercise. It's like the Serpentine out here. Don't know what everybody is making a fuss about.

Etc. etc.
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