UK Partners to Launch Autonomous Vessels Testing Service
; Solent LEP Maritime Chairman Ian Millen said, “The Solent is the heart of the U.K.’s marine and maritime sector and the assets we possess enable the region, its businesses and the U.K. economy to compete globally. From the Port of Southampton, the most productive port in Europe, to Portsmouth Naval Base, HQ of the Royal Navy and soon to be home to the largest aircraft carriers in U.K. history, the Solent is used to making waves on an international stage. The key to this success has always been founded in innovation and, through our investment to create the U.K.’s first autonomous systems
WWI U-Boat Propeller Returned to German Navy
been given back to the country it belongs to, the U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) reported. The propeller from the German World War I submarine U-8 was handed over by the MCA to members of the current Navy during a handover ceremony on the German Naval vessel Karlsruhe in the Portsmouth Naval Base. The propeller, recovered along with other historical items following a number of seizures of illegally recovered dive artifacts in the Kent area in 2014, came into the care of the U.K.’s Receiver of Wreck, Alison Kentuck, but is now returned to its original owner. Head of
Sunken WWII Landing Craft Refloated
crane the vessel slowly began to rise from the seabed. After the tank deck level was reached, approximately 400,000 liters of water was pumped out and the vessel was successfully refloated. All the salvage equipment was then removed from the hull and final preparations made for her transfer to Portsmouth Naval Base for restoration
British Navy Tests Remote-Controlled Minehunter
A remote-controlled boat, named 'Hazard' that can search for, hunt and destroy mines is being tested by a specialist Royal Navy unit based in the Portsmouth Naval Base, briefs the UK MOD. The Hazard can also act as the ‘mother ship’ to an assortment of hi-tech remote-controlled and robot submersibles. Collectively, they can search for, hunt and finally destroy mines faster than the Royal Navy’s Sandown and Hunt-class ships, and they also have the added benefit of keeping the sailors required to operate them out of harm’s way. Modified versions of the same systems are also
February 2025
