Maritime Security & Emergency Response

A 1000 Island Airboats ice rescue boat
Search and Rescue

US Coast Guard awards $6.13m contract for 10 Great Lakes ice rescue boats

Will Xavier
The cargo ship Navex at the Port of Antwerp sometime between 1927 and 1938. Later renamed Storaa, the ship was sunk by a German torpedo boat while operating as part of an Allied convoy off the coast of East Sussex in the UK on November 3, 1943.
Salvage

OPINION | Ambiguity as a strategic gamble: is the UK Ministry of Defence ignoring the Court of Appeal's ruling on military service?

Emile Solanki
Sea Tridon naval gun variants
Weaponry

New containerised self-defence gun proposed for installation on commercial vessels

Will Xavier
Artist's impression of a Dauphin drone generating a false radar signature mimicking that of the FDI frigate alongside
Weaponry

French Navy's new ship-launched radar decoy drone to begin flight tests in 2027

Will Xavier
Crown Iris
Incidents

Israel-bound cruise ship halted at Greek port following bomb scare

Reuters
Construction work at 10 Dock in Devonport
Naval

$805m construction contract kicks off UK submarine dock upgrade

Alan Bosworth
Allied Maritime Command - NATO ships exercise with allies in the Black Sea
Security

FEATURE | The high-risk Black Sea escalation testing NATO like never before

Reuters
Security Vessel News Roundup | November 3 – Greek frigate delivery, Indian corvette orders and more
Security

Security Vessel News Roundup | November 3 – Greek frigate delivery, Indian corvette orders and more

Baird Maritime
Taiwan Coast Guard vessel PP-10081
Non-Naval Security

Charting its own course: Taiwan minister urges control over maritime data

Reuters
Black Sea
Security

Limited Black Sea ceasefire gains ground while broad peace deal stalls

Reuters
COLUMN | Broken Britain: policy failures leave UK offshore sector adrift [Offshore Accounts]
Offshore

COLUMN | Broken Britain: policy failures leave UK offshore sector adrift [Offshore Accounts]

Hieronymus Bosch
ASC 1
Naval Auxiliary/Support

VESSEL REVIEW | ASC 1 – Beaching logistics craft prototype for US Marine Corps

Baird Maritime
Scarborough Shoal
Naval

China ratchets up tensions with patrols around disputed shoal in South China Sea

Reuters
Map showing the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman
Incidents

Boat with explosives rams tanker in Strait of Hormuz

Reuters
Qingrong China State Shipbuilding Corporation.jpg
Unmanned Survey & Research

VESSEL REVIEW | Qingrong – Fast multi-role USV for Chinese marine technology firm

Baird Maritime
Mediterranean Sea
Security

Greek PM says seas cannot become "a jungle" after drone sinks cargo ship, calls for truce

Reuters
Satellite imagery of oil spill off the UAE
Pollution Control

FEATURE | UAE grapples with coastal oil spill as water supply risks emerge

Reuters
Sea of Azov
Bulkers

Sea of Azov reopens to grain export ships after months-long shutdown, Russian naval escorts involved

Reuters
Ukrainian naval drones hit the tanker Kairos in the Black Sea, November 2025
Security

Turkey warns Russia and Ukraine of legal action over Black Sea ship attacks

Reuters
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addresses delegates of the Shangri-La Dialogue, May 2026
Security

US vows firm defence of regional allies as Hegseth addresses ASEAN ministers

Reuters
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