The Times – Spain and Gibraltar put on a rare display of unity yesterday in condemning the unscheduled arrival of an ailing Royal Navy nuclear submarine at the disputed British colony.
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Daily Archives: February 5, 2005
US Navy – Hospital ship Mercy arrives off Sumatra
San Diego Union Tribune – The Navy hospital ship Mercy arrived off the coast of northern Sumatra yesterday evening with its San Diego crew eager to help island people ravaged by the tsunami.
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Russian Navy – Russian Navy to exercise in North Atlantic
Bellona – The Baltic and Northern Fleets will conduct exercises in North Atlantic in August-September, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Kuroyedov told journalists on January 31.
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Russian Navy – Two nuclear-powered subs might join Russian Navy in 2005
Bellona – In 2005, the Russian Navy will be supplied with two strategic nuclear-powered submarines Yury Dolgoruky and Dmitry Donskoy carrying on board the newest sea-based missiles systems “Bulava”, claims the First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Belousov.
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History – In the Lair of the Wolf Pack: Hitler's French U-Boat Bases
World War II Magazine – Adolf Hitler turned submarine bases along the French coast into some of the most feared fortifications in the world.
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