Maritime News records events at sea and in port as they occur: incidents, seizures, transits, exercises, commissionings, contract awards and disruption to shipping. Each item carries a date, a location and a named source. Read by operators, insurers, naval staff and analysts needing prompt maritime situational awareness.
Reporting on collisions, seizures, strait transits, commissioning dates, contract awards and port disruption, dated and attributed to primary sources.
A guide to the four documented milestones that turn a hull under construction into a commissioned warship, drawn from Naval History and Heritage Command and Naval Sea Systems Command records.
James WellingtonThe ICC International Maritime Bureau logged 45 incidents worldwide in the first quarter of 2025, and dhows and fishing vessels were hijacked off Somalia and the Gulf of Aden through the year.
James WellingtonUSS Gettysburg (CG-64) downed an F/A-18F Super Hornet over the Red Sea on December 21, 2024; the Navy published the strike group investigation findings in December 2025.
James WellingtonThe Navy announced on November 11, 2025, that USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and its strike group had repositioned from Europe to the U.S. Fourth Fleet area in the Caribbean.
James WellingtonAfter seven Baltic cable cuts between November 2024 and January 2025, NATO stood up Baltic Sentry with frigates, patrol aircraft, and naval drones to guard undersea infrastructure.
James WellingtonOn September 2, 2025, the Coast Guard sent its polar icebreaker to query the Chinese research vessel JIDI about 265 miles northwest of Utqiagvik, part of a summer of challenges to Chinese survey activity.
James WellingtonThe May 2025 live-fire exercise, led by U.S. 6th Fleet and STRIKFORNATO, tested allied air and missile defense from May 3 to May 23, 2025.
James WellingtonNAVSEA's April 2025 award to Textron Systems funds software and payload integration on the MCM USV, the unmanned craft at the center of the Navy's mine countermeasure transition.
James WellingtonThe June 2025 request carried roughly 27.2 billion dollars for seventeen battle force ships, with the Large Unmanned Surface Vessel program at the center of the unmanned debate.
James WellingtonThe EU's Aspides force launched on February 19, 2024, and by July 2025 its warships had downed more than twenty drones and missiles while escorting merchant traffic.
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