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Counter Piracy Operation Atalanta Flagship,Galicia Class Landing Platform Dock ESPS Castilla. Built by Navantia at Ferrol in 2000 their mission is to carry out Amphibious Warfare by transporting the bulk of the Infantería de Marina.
These ships have both a large helicopter deck and a 885-square-metre (9,530 sq ft) well deck for large landing craft, as well as a 1,000-square-metre (11,000 sq ft) space for up to 33 main battle tanks.Two ships in rhe Class,Galicia was commissioned in 1998 and Castilla in 2000. Galicia and Castilla are based at the Rota naval base in Spain.
The Class is the result of a joint project between Spain and the Netherlands for developing a common class of LPD that would fulfill the needs of both countries to replace older ships. This process produced the Enforcer design, which forms the basis of the Galicia Class as well as the similar Rotterdam Class.
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Spanish Anaga Class Patrol Boat ESPS Tagomago pictured at Malaga in August 2018.
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Spanish Battleship ESPS Pelayo pictured at Genoa in 1892 and at Toulon in 1899.
She served in the Spanish fleet from 1888 to 1925. She was the first Battleship and the most powerful unit of the Spanish Navy. Despite its modern design for the time, Pelayo and the rest of the Spanish Asia-Pacific Rescue Squadron never engaged in combat during the Spanish–American War. Some historians argue the Battleship, along with Armored Cruiser Carlos V, would have changed the course of the war dramatically, leading to a possible Spanish victory, thus consolidating Spain's status as a colonial power.Ordered in November 1884, Pelayo was built by Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée at La Seyne in France. Her keel was laid in April 1885, and she was launched on February 5th 1887 and completed in the summer of 1888. She was originally intended to be the first of a new Class of Battleships, but a crisis with the German Empire in the Caroline Islands in 1890 led to the cancellation of these plans and the diversion of funds to the construction of the Infanta Maria Teresa-Class Armoured Cruisers. Pelayo was viewed as too slow and having too little coal endurance for colonial service, and ended up being the only member of her class.
She was a Barbette Ship, an ancestor of the modern Battleship with the main battery mounted in open barbettes on armored rotating platforms, in contrast to the heavy self-contained turrets more common to the period and which the progress of the design of modern Battleships would soon abandon.
Her main guns could be loaded in any position, and consisted of two Gonzalez Hontoria-built 32-centimetre 12.6 inch Canet guns mounted fore and aft on the centerline and two Gonzalez Hontoria 28-centimetre 11.0 inch guns, also in barbettes, with one mounted on either beam.She was disarmed 1923; scrapped 1925.
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Another BLAST from the past: CA BELEARES being bombed by Republican aircraft, 1938....... :o DFO
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Shades of HNoMS Helge Ingstad

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Dangerous incursion by Spanish patrol vessel in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters where the Spanish vessel cut across the bows on incomming freighter prompting the Master of the vessel to issue 5 short blasts from its ship's horn @NavyLookout @MODGibraltar @RNGibSqn
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:oops: whilst the RN displays/exerts great influence!!! :oops:
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Would be a joke iffen it weren't so tragic Harry
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Another incursion by Spanish Navy instructing ships in in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters to leave. Infanta Cristina (P77) @MODGibraltar @RNGibSqn @NavyLookout @UKDefJournal @Convent_Gib

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stbd lookout to OOW "Oh look Sir ... there's a Klingon on the stbd bow"

"No No lookout ... that is the RN displaying/exerting great influence again!!! :oops:
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yes be interesting if the new political party exerts more aggressive tactics of what they consider to be infringement eh Harry ;)
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Little h wrote: Mon May 06, 2019 1:27 am NavyLookout Retweeted
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Another incursion by Spanish Navy instructing ships in in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters to leave. Infanta Cristina (P77) @MODGibraltar @RNGibSqn @NavyLookout @UKDefJournal @Convent_Gib

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stbd lookout to OOW "Oh look Sir ... there's a Klingon on the stbd bow"

"No No lookout ... that is the RN displaying/exerting great influence again!!! :oops:
It has been reported this morning that work on the Fleet Solid Support Ships could go to Spain to silence Gibraltar claims.

First reported by the Daily Record here, it has been claimed that the £1 billion order for the ships is ‘being steered’ towards a Spanish yard in a deal over Gibraltar. The paper reports that:

“Senior GMB officials are furious over reports that the Navantia naval dockyard in the north of Spain has been chosen to build Fleet Solid Support vessels.”

As a point of clarification in response to remarks on social media about this topic, this news (if true) would impact Rosyth and not the Clyde. The Clyde isn’t bidding for this work (Rosyth is), the Clyde has no capacity to build the vessels (Rosyth does) and the Clyde wasn’t hoping for them (Rosyth is). We go into depth on this here.
Continues at - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/reports ... ar-claims/
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Buy British.

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