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rickusn · 04-20-2007, 12:49 PM

Heres an intersting development I hadnt been aware of. Its great to see the officioal RN site greatly updated since my last visit.:

Royal Navy

News : HMS Edinburgh : Type 42 Destroyers : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy

"10-23 Mar 07

This period saw the completion of Safety and Readiness Checks, a 10 day event consisting of various training exercises (simulated Fires, Floods, Helicopter Crash on Deck) conducted under the supervision of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) staff. The trial period came after the entire Ship’s Company of HMS Exeter flew down to relieve those on HMS Edinburgh as part of the Sea Swap experiment. This required an immense amount of hard work and commitment from everyone onboard, which paid dividends when the Ship was given a clean bill of health to continue with the deployment. "

Also the Monmouth is deployed on a nine-month Far East patrol and it appears w/o tanker support that in the past has been a normal part of such a deployment.

Plus the Ocean is the APT-N ship.

And it appears the FRE ship has morphed into:

Fleet Rapid Reaction Units
HMS St. Albans and HMS Argyll with Merlin helicopters from 829 Naval Air Squadron
are UK based rapid reaction units available for short notice tasking.

So from this official site.:

We have:

Edinburgh APT-S returning this summer
Southhampton departing April 23 on APT-S patrol
St Albans/Argyll RRU
Montrose SNMG 2/MED
Cornwall Gulf
Sutherland IO
Monmouth FE
Ocean APT-N

Ill be back later with where the other ships are either updated from the official site or from my somewhat dated notes..

04-20-2007, 12:49 PM	#8 (permalink)
rickusn *Military Professional* Join Date: 08-09-03 Posts: 1,317	Heres an intersting development I hadnt been aware of. Its great to see the officioal RN site greatly updated since my last visit.: Royal Navy News : HMS Edinburgh : Type 42 Destroyers : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy "10-23 Mar 07 This period saw the completion of Safety and Readiness Checks, a 10 day event consisting of various training exercises (simulated Fires, Floods, Helicopter Crash on Deck) conducted under the supervision of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) staff. The trial period came after the entire Ship’s Company of HMS Exeter flew down to relieve those on HMS Edinburgh as part of the Sea Swap experiment. This required an immense amount of hard work and commitment from everyone onboard, which paid dividends when the Ship was given a clean bill of health to continue with the deployment. " Also the Monmouth is deployed on a nine-month Far East patrol and it appears w/o tanker support that in the past has been a normal part of such a deployment. Plus the Ocean is the APT-N ship. And it appears the FRE ship has morphed into: Fleet Rapid Reaction Units HMS St. Albans and HMS Argyll with Merlin helicopters from 829 Naval Air Squadron are UK based rapid reaction units available for short notice tasking. So from this official site.: We have: Edinburgh APT-S returning this summer Southhampton departing April 23 on APT-S patrol St Albans/Argyll RRU Montrose SNMG 2/MED Cornwall Gulf Sutherland IO Monmouth FE Ocean APT-N Ill be back later with where the other ships are either updated from the official site or from my somewhat dated notes.. Last edited by rickusn : 04-20-2007 at 13:17 PM.