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HMS Tyne and LÉ George Bernard Shaw have completed two days of training.
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HMS Tyne and LÉ George Bernard Shaw have completed two days of training.
Irish navel ship P62 LÉ James Joyce in London along side HMS Belfast.
Three Dutch naval vessels paid a courtesy visit to Cork harbour last weekend.
The Dutch ambassador in Dublin has said that shipbuilders in Netherlands are likely to compete for the construction of the proposed Irish Navy multi-role vessel (MRV) when it goes to tender.
Ireland has engaged a shipyard in the UK to build ships in the past but, sources have said, in the wake of Brexit that contracts are likely to go to European partner countries.
While the tendering process has not begun to build the ship Adriaan Palm said there is “competition” to take on the contract.
Palm confirmed to The Journal that he met with Irish officials from the Irish Navy, the Irish Air Corps and the Department of Defence (DOD) who visited a Dutch navy ship in Cobh last week.
Planning is underway in the DOD to purchase the MRV and it was a key recommendation in the Commission on the Defence Forces – the cost of the project could be in the region of €200 million.
Palm said that the officials were given a tour of the vessel, HNLMS Karel Doorman, which is a multi-role vessel similar to that mooted for the Irish navy.
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The LÉ Samuel Beckett docked outside our office in Dublin.
In the Irish Navy, all ships are given unofficial mascots by the crew. The crew of the ship often waits to find the personality of the ship before they name its mascot. For example, there is one ship named Pepe le Pew because it always stunk. Two sister ships were named Yosemite Sam and Road Runner, with Road Runner being the faster ship. One ship’s mascot was Yoda because the ship had a lot of new technology on it and it was around the time that Star Wars was being filmed in Ireland. The flag ship’s mascot is Mufasa because it was the Navy’s pride of their fleet.
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Irish Naval vessel rescues 220 people off Libyan coast
The Irish vessel LÉ Samuel Beckett rescued 218 people from rubber boats off the coast of Libya on Wednesday morning. The vessel took 63 women, including one pregnant woman, six children and 149 men on board during two consecutive humanitarian rescue missions. The Irish Defence Forces ship spotted the first 12-metre craft during a search and rescue patrol 64km north-west of Tripoli. There were 85 people on board. A short time later, another rubber craft was found containing 133 people. Those rescued were given food, water and medical attention where required. The ship, which has rescued a total of 565 people since it was deployed in the Mediterranean this month, is continuing to patrol the sea. The vessel is under the command of Lieut Cdr Anthony Geraghty and took over its duties when LÉ Niamh left the region in early October. LÉ Eithne and LÉ Niamh rescued a total of 7,397 men, women and children during their respective missions. Brian Killoran, chief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, said the number of people Irish Naval ships have rescued should be “source of national pride”. “The naval mission is up for further review in December, given the numbers taking to the high seas has not fallen off we are asking the Government to keep the deployment under review – and if necessary extend it into 2016,” he said. irishtimes
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Irish naval ship rescues 242 people near Libya -defence forces
Monday 05 October, 2015 DUBLIN- An Irish naval ship rescued 242 people from wooden crafts near the Libyan capital of Tripoli in its first operation since being deployed to assist an international migrant rescue effort, Ireland’s Defence Forces said on Monday.
The LÉ Samuel Beckett vessel, which was deployed on Sept. 25, rescued the people 93 kilometres north-west of Tripoli, the Defence Forces said, publishing a photograph on its Twitter account showing some people about to be lifted onto a ship.
(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Catherine Evans) (Reuters)