Joint Warrior - Friday arrivals, part 2

Some more arrivals for Joint warrior, firstly the Glasgow bound ships, photographed from Greenock, and then around to Glen Mallan and Faslane in the afternoon.

Swedish corvette, HMS Sundsvall

ORP Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki, with local tug Battler following

HNLMS Urk, one of three Tripartite class minehunters arriving today

FGS Weilheim

Belgian Tripartite class, BNS Bellis

HNoMS Hinnoey following behind Bellis

ORP Czajka taking up the rear as the convoy heads to Glasgow

HDMS Absalon passing Faslane naval base

FGS Emden, F210 at Rhu

FGS Emden beside sister ship F207, FGS Bremen

Bremen and Emden alongside jetty at Garelochhead

Bremen and Emden with Absalon behind

German replenishment oiler, Frankfurt am Main at Glen Mallan

Joint Warrior - Friday arrivals, part 1

A large number of ships joined the arrivals from earlier in the week, with the first sailing up river at 7am this morning.

Around a dozen vessels from various countries made their way to Glasgow on yet another damp cold morning.

BNS Primula leading the procession

BNS Primula

HNoMS Rauma

HNoMS Rauma

HNoMS Karmoey

M341 HNoMS Karmoey

Swedish stealth ship HSwMS Visby

HSwMS Visby

Joint Warrior arrivals

Thursday morning and more ships arrived for Joint Warrior exercise. These four visitors were on their way to KGV dock in Glasgow, the larger ones being assisted by tugs.

I'm not one to complain about the weather (not too much any way) but it was horrible today with constant rain and very poor visibility.

Danish "Thesis" class ocean patrol vessel, HDMS Vaedderen F359, was the first vessel to arrive this morning.

German oiler FGS Rhoen A1443 was escorted by local tugs once she reached the river.

F221 FGS Hessen is a German Sachsen class frigate, commissioned in 2006.

Final vessel of the 4 is A535 HNoMS Valkyrien. This Norwegian support vessel was originally built as a civilian ship and is capable of anchor handling and towing.

Joint Warrior

The first of this years Joint Warrior exercises is upon us and this years participants have started arriving.

On Saturday, Dutch submarine support vessel, HNKMS Mercuur arrived at Greenock Ocean Terminal.

As the exercise gets closer, more ships have started coming in to the river. KNM Steile went up to Glasgow earlier this morning, but here is he sister ship KNM Gnist passing East India Harbour after coming up the Firth of Clyde at over 40 knots.