May
10, 2008
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SeaWaves 2008 Book of the Year
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SeaWaves Magazine
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Latest News
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The
French training hulk Lucifer (ex-FS La Découverte, ex-FFL Découverte, ex
HMS Windrush) will be towed away for scrapping May 19th. This comes 48 years
after Jane's Fighting Ships reported her scrapping! Lucifer
is believed to be one of the only River-class frigate still afloat.
Australian sister HMAS Diamantina is now a museum in
a drydock in Brisbane. Others are still visible as a breakwater in Kelsey
Bay on Canada's West Coast. Photo from ladecouverte.chez-alice.fr.
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Latest
Industry News
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Austal has
successfully launched its landmark 127 metre Littoral Combat Ship
INDEPENDENCE (LCS 2) in what proved a momentous occasion for the
company as it celebrates its 20th year. Since its keel
laying in January 2006, INDEPENDENCE has steadily progressed within
Austal USA’s purpose built construction facility in Mobile, Alabama
toward becoming a formidable warship. The April 26th rollout was a
significant step along the way to achieving that goal. The launch
procedure involved coordination of all large shipping traffic in the
Mobile River while INDEPENDENCE was rolled out of the construction
hall on sixty-six 100 ton rail-trolleys onto a floating drydock. The
127 metre Austal trimaran seaframe is the platform for the LCS’s
mission and weapon systems. This seaframe provides superior seakeeping
and aviation as a result of its long, slender central hull and smaller
side hulls (“amahs”). The trimaran hullform provides a large
internal mission deck with a high payload carrying capacity. Located
above the mission bay is the enormous flight deck capable of
conducting dual H-60 helicopter operations and accommodating the US
Navy’s largest helicopter, an H-53, a feature not available on
similar size naval warships. The vertical location of the flight deck
on the trimaran hull form provides the highest flight deck elevation
on a combatant ship other than a major amphibious vessel or aircraft
carrier. INDEPENDENCE will be moored alongside the Austal USA facility
while the activation and testing of combat and other onboard systems
is completed. Sea trials are expected to commence in late 2008.
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Where to see the ships & planes
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HNLMS
Dolfijn is one of the ships taking part in
the submarine rescue exercise BOLD MONARCH
off Norway. Official Dutch Navy photo. |
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