The Portuguese Navy reported this morning that since Friday afternoon (November 1st), it has been in a “monitoring and follow-up operation of a Russian Federation scientific and oceanographic research ship, which, this morning, passed through Madeiran territorial waters. “The Maritime Operations Centre permanently monitored the activity of the ship, coordinating…
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Admiral Gouveia e Melo, of the Portuguese Navy proposes that a permanent Naval base in constructed in Madeira. Through this, the Navy’s decison to ensure a greater “geographical dispersion” of national defence will include the two Autonomous Regions. The future naval base in Madeira will be focused on threats from…
The Navy monitored and accompanied a Russian scientific ship in Madeira's Exclusive Economic Zone for two days.
A five-member team from the Regional Agency for the Development of Research, Technology, and Innovation (ARDITI) is participating in REPMUS 23, (Troy) a NATO event hosted by the Portuguese Navy.
The Navy, through the Funchal Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Subcentre, carried out 10 missions in the first six months of this year, saving eleven lives.
The Russian ship ‘Akademik Tryoshnikov:’ a Russian Icebreaker!! Sailed past the west coast of Madeira this weekend without being accompanied by the Portuguese navy, state CNN Portugal. Although two naval vessels are currently docked in the port of Funchal, ‘Orion’ and ‘Hydra,’ neither ship were requested to intercept or monitor…
On Saturday the 25th, the Portuguese Navy escorted another Russian ship out of Portuguese territorial waters in what has been described by the General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA), as "a normal surveillance procedure of maritime spaces under national sovereignty or jurisdiction, where warships from non-NATO countries sail in Portuguese waters."
In the early hours of this morning, the Portuguese Navy and Air Force were called out on a rescue mission.
The Commander of the Madeira Maritime Zone, Rui Manuel Teixeira, confirmed this afternoon that everything possible was being done to find the missing German Tourist who had been swept out to sea.
The Lisbon Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre, in conjunction with MRSC Funchal, coordinated the rescue of an individual who was on a life raft belonging to Czech sailboat, Rogui II, which was sailing to Europe from the Caribbean.