It seems that shipbuilders BaE (Big and Expensive) are well on their way to having the world’s largest navy…of ships they finish building just before the owners decide they don’t want them any longer through project overruns, shoddy management and spiralling costs. Famously just avoiding ending up with a spare […]

A note from the Dorset Submariners Assoc. which will appeal to matelot readers everywhere. Since the tot was stopped on 31st July 1970 the Corner House Inn on Portland has still had Up Spirits on the Saturday nearest 31st July.  This year it falls on the 31st itself and is […]

From yesterday’s Porstmouth News: “Clegg pledge to halve number of admirals” …He said: ‘I admire and want to support everyone who works selflessly in the armed services, but it’s hard to work out how to support people on the front line when money is tight. ‘We have to ask why […]

Further evidence, if it were needed, that Obama and Brown are cut from the same military-despising cloth. It seems that the US Navy is planning to name the newest San Antonio class amphibious landing ship after corrupt, sleazy, traitorous politician John Murtha. According to a Navy memorandum obtained by Navy […]

Daddy, daddy, I know what I want for Chanukah!What, my Jewish son?Two warships!Do you know how much they cost?Nothing! I want them for freeeeeee! Israel is hoping to order two modern German-made warships without paying for them, daily Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday. Sources within the German government told […]

Various news outlets are reporting the rumour that Russia is planning to purchase a Mistral class large amphibious assault ship from France. The news hit the mainstream in an article in French business daily La Tribune, which predicts a deal being signed in September. The purchase, if successful, would be […]

This blog has always had a military slant and writing about this is obscure but par for the course. Anyone not interested can of course get a full refund at the cloakroom door on your way out. Allow TheEye to introduce the USS Freedom which is the first of the […]

This is the cruiser USS Port Royal, or, as St Crispin would see it, A-Gun-Platform-I-Can-Shoot-At-Things-From. However the State of Hawaii sees it differently. A revenue opportunity. Does the world really regard this 9,600 tons-and-change guided-missile cruiser as they do? On the 5th Feb somebody managed to lodge it on top […]

TheEye tends to avoid religious issues but this blog has military and political interests so this Parliamentary question is very relevant here. Baroness Warsi, Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action, has asked a question of the Government: “To ask Her Majesty’s Government what religions and faiths are recognised […]

There continues to be speculation in the British Press that HMS Endurance could be scrapped. Two articles and a paragraph or two quoted from The News (Portsmouth’s unoriginally named daily newspaper) “HMS Endurance May Be A Total Write-Off” “The navy is considering scrapping HMS Endurance because of the damage she […]