Commander | Royal Netherlands Navy | Maritime Operations | Inspecteur ZKK NL | Posts are my own
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Jasper Bol retweeted
The ten members of the UK-led @JEFnations will sign a maritime defence agreement on board HMS Prince of Wales in Oslo on 10th November.
The agreement will move beyond information-sharing towards cooperation between naval forces.
More details to come tomorrow.
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Great insight!
For a century before steam, ships went where the wind let them. This video uses the CLIWOC database: more than 250,000 noon positions copied from Dutch, British, Spanish and French ships' logbooks between 1750 and 1855. First every voyage is folded into a single year, so the fleets move with the seasons. Then the tracks build up into the full century.
The routes are wind routes. Ships bound for the Cape swung far west towards Brazil to get round the calms and the southeast trade winds, then ran east before the westerlies. Dutch ships for Batavia followed the Brouwer route through the Roaring Forties before turning north to Java. British ships fill the Indian Ocean on their way to India and China, and Spanish ships head for the Río de la Plata and the Caribbean.
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Jasper Bol retweeted
UK flagship @HMSPWLS arrives in Oslo this weekend after the dynamic phase of her Firecrest mission ended leading a potent naval force on NATO's Neptune Strike 26-4.
She hosts a series of high-level talks on the future of northern Europe's security.🇬🇧🇳🇴
royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/n…
ALT One F-35B lands another taxies on the flight deck with a Merlin Mk2 lashed down astern.
ALT HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen and HMS Dauntless sail in close company
ALT HMS St Albans, HNoMS Maud, a French frigate, HMS Prince of Wales, HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen and HMS Dauntless in company on Neptune Strike 26-4
ALT An F-35B from 617 Squadron launches from a wet flight deck
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🇳🇱🤝🇬🇧 Tijdens het bezoek van de Koning aan Liverpool is er aandacht voor defensie en veiligheid. Op marineschip de Zr.Ms. Johan de Witt is een demonstratie van verschillende typen onbemande systemen.
koninklijkhuis.nl/actueel/ni… – at Liverpool, England
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HMS St Albans briefly joined up with the UK Carrier Strike Group off Norway.
HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Dauntless, 🇳🇴HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen, HNoMS Maud and 🇫🇷FS Normandie.
PHOTEX at the conclusion of NATO Exercise Neptune Strike 2024-4 yesterday.
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Nederland heeft veel kennis en innovatiekracht. Dat zag ik ook vandaag. RH Marine maakt schepen slimmer, PhotonFirst ontwikkelt geavanceerde sensoren en Bolidt levert sterke scheepsdekken. Met Britse partners kunnen we deze innovaties verder brengen en onze defensie versterken.
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1/27 The electronic chart on a ship's bridge is getting its first real upgrade in 25 years. Since 1 January 2026 a new kind of ECDIS is allowed, and from 1 January 2029 every newly fitted one must be it. The new standard is called S-100. What it is and what it changes. #ECDIS
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Timelapse video - HMS Prince of Wales, flight deck operations in the Norwegian Sea
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Goedemorgen , allen een fijne maandag toegewenst .
Joint Warrior is een geplande oefening, georganiseerd en geleid door het Verenigd Koninkrijk waar dat jaar ook Oekraïne ook aan meedeed . November 2023 .
Foto's via : @kon_marine , @wilco_faber .
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🇷🇺Russian frigate RFS Neustrashimy is back in her holding position, drifting to save fuel off Thames Estuary today.
She escorted 2 ships back into the Baltic last week but turned around and resumed 'North Sea Patrol Task (South)'.
Via @pegge49
Great pic but it's probably time to unclog the drains on the flight deck...
Neptune Strike ⚡️ - @NATO's enhanced Vigilance Activity.
🌊Sea, sub-surface and air
🎯Long range strike
🤝Collective defence
#WeAreNATO @STRIKFORNATO
Jasper Bol retweeted
The Great Lego Spill: On 13 February 1997 a huge wave hit the container ship Tokio Express about 20 miles off Land's End, and 62 containers went overboard. One of them held 4,756,940 Lego pieces, many of them sea-themed: dragons, octopuses, life rings, flippers and spear guns. About half of them float, and beachcombers in Cornwall still find them today.
This is a drift simulation of the floating half over five years, from 1997 to 2002, with the real daily currents and winds.
Data: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service.
#Lego #Cornwall #oceancurrents #shipping #themovingsea
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HNLMS Luymes (A803) seen arriving on the Thames this afternoon heading to spend the weekend alongside HMSBelfast near Tower Bridge in London.
Clip via : @AJBC_1 , @kon_marine .
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During a silent patrol, the crew of a Royal Navy Amphion-class submarine investigates an unfamiliar sound echoing through the hull.
In the 125-year history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service nearly 6000 submariners and over 150 submarines never returned. Lest we forget.
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🇮🇹Italian AV-8B Harrier IIs and F-35Bs operate from ITS Cavour during NATO exercise Neptune Strike 26-4 in the Mediterranean.
Via @NATO_MARCOM
