Hms dauntless12/16/2023 ![]() These included students from Johnstone High School, Eastbank Academy, Springburn Academy and Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, as well as Combined Cadet Forces from Glasgow Academy, Kelvinside Academy, Queen Victoria School in Dunblane and Strathallan School. HMS Dauntless will be in port until Monday March 17 and has a busy schedule during her short visit.Īlthough not open to the public on this occasion, a number of schools from across the area will enjoy visits to the ship. She’s due back home in Portsmouth at the end of October.Going alongside at King George V Dock, the ship will be just down the river from Govan where she was launched, and across the water from Scotstoun where she was fitted out. With UNITAS completed 28 September, HMS Dauntless will take up anti-drug-running patrols as part of the international clampdown on the narcotics trade in Caribbean waters and the Gulf of Mexico. The British destroyer worked alongside a dozen warships from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic and host nation USA, as part of a wide-ranging test of the different navies to work together the vessels are also on stand-by to provide assistance should a hurricane sweep through the region. ![]() “Of course everyone thinks of a warship in its primary war-fighting role, because that’s the iconic image of what we do, but events like this help to demonstrate some of the additional roles – and attributes – that a modern and versatile warship like Dauntless can deliver,” said the destroyer’s Commanding Officer Capt Will Warrender.įrom Cartagena, HMS Dauntless left for Key West for the largest and longest running exercise in the region, UNITAS, which traces its history back to the late 1950s. So while many of the ship’s company were off enjoying the sights and sounds of the ancient walled city – proclaimed a world heritage site by UNESCO as the best preserved fortified city in South America – their shipmates toiled to prepare the destroyer and ensure she was a fitting venue to support this sales/diplomatic role.Īlso part of the job has been showing off Dauntless as the best of British, cutting-edge, state-of-the-art vessel and as such hosted 44 trainee officers from the Escuela Naval de Cadetes Almirante Padilla, the Colombian counterpart to Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. In Cartagena the recently-appointed British Minister for International Security Strategy, Dr Andrew Murrison, held the first annual Anglo-Colombian strategic defense summit with his opposite number from Colombia.ĭ33 also served as the venue for the second of the ‘Defense Security Industry’ days the ship has hosted while deployed (the first was in Lagos, Nigeria), a floating showcase for UK firms and trade. ![]() On her first visit to Colombia during September, the £1bn destroyer provided the impressively steely setting for defense talks between the two nations at the northern historic port city of Cartagena. The Type45 destroyer would have then spent over six months abroad, the first leg deployed along the western African coast, later crossing over to the Falkland Islands for South Atlantic patrolling and later to the North Atlantic and Caribbean including calls to Barbados and St. The RN HMS Dauntless left, is underway in formation with the Ticonderoga missile cruiser USS Anzio during UNITAS Atlantic 2012 (Photo: US Navy)Īfter a major naval exercise in the Caribbean with the participation of 13 warships from several countries of the Americas and following some anti-drugs patrolling in the Caribbean HMS Dauntless is expected back in Portsmouth at the end of October.
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