Another NATO Warship in Cork
cork |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report 
Sunday October 19, 2008 11:15
by John Jefferies - Cork Warship Watch
For the second time in just over a month Cork Port has been visited by a warship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in breach of Irish neutrality.
The Danish patrol vessel HDMS Vaedderen is currently tied up at Custom House Quay in Cork City centre and will remain there until Tuesday morning, 21st October.
HDMS Vaedderen is a Thetis Class ocean patrol vessel which is tasked with maintaining Denmark's sovereignty over the Faroe Islands and Greenland (at least someone defends their sovereignty but you'd wonder where a visit to Cork comes into that role).
Vaedderen (which means The Ram in English), came into service in 1992. At 3,500 tons it is twice the size of the largest Irish naval vessel LÉ Eithne. It is also well armed and after a refit two years ago is fitted with the most up-to-date communications systems. It is also fitted with a single Melara 76mm cannon up front, Stinger missile launchers, 2 x 12.7mm heavy machine guns, 2 x 7.62mm light machine guns and a rack of depth charges. In addition the Vaedderen also carries a Lynx helicopter and can carry a second chopper on deck if the first is held in the hangar.
This adds to the growing list of foreign (predominantly NATO) warships who are now using Cork harbour.
Photo shows helicopter hangar and landing pad at ship's stern
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Vaederren recently returned from a Circumnavigation of the Glove where most of her armament was removed, along with her helicopter, and replaced with accomodation for an embarked scientific expedition. Projects carried out during this voyage included...
Alien matter and metals
Antifreeze protein systems in Antarctic fish
Avian diversification
Biodiversity in protista
Biological interaction on islands
Changes in South Greenland's climate and environment
Collecting poisonous sea snakes
Controlling Tuberculosis in Independent India 1948-78
Cool-water carbonate mounds
Cultural Heritage and transistions in coastal and maritime resources utilisation towards the 21th century experience economy (...)
Deep-sea fish at the Antarctic
Dissolved Organic Matter
Early life forms in Antarctica
Educating the public
Enzymes from the Ikaite columns in Greenland
Ethnographic and historical perspectives
Fluorescent proteins
Geological reconnaissance
Gingers
Globalisation - past and the present
Gravity surveying and sea levels
Healers, Slaves and Surgeons
Mercury in the troposphere
Oceanic oxygen deficiency zones
Parasites in zooplankton
Plankton dynamics in the Andaman Sea
Plant communities in the Galapagos Islands
Quaternary Geology at Sisimiut, West Greenland
Resources and survival in the South West Pacific
Roseobacter bacteria – the ocean’s stars
Sea turtels in the major sea current systems
Sound in the Oceans
Submerged cultivation in the desert of Peru
Sulphur and saltpeter in the production of explosives
The Benthic Fauna of the Solomon Sea
The DNA of the Polar Seas
The European Eel
The Horseshoe Crab
The Marine Carbon Cycle
The Nicobar Islands after the tsunami
The origin of the vertebrate immune system
The physiology of antarctic fish
The significance of the climate the degree of isolation on biological interplay and biodiversity in lakes
The Tranquebar Initiative of the National Museum of Denmark
Tropical dinoflagellata
Tropical sea-grasses
Voices from beyond the grave
West Indies Marine Geoscience Investigations
Open your mind a little john. Just because its painted grey does not mean its going to invade your house. Your obsession with guns is a tad disturbing.
Which glove would this be Poopeye?
and I'd love to know what role a ship which was launched in the 1990s could possibly have played in "Controlling Tuberculosis in Independent India 1948-78".
as for obsession with guns I think it's only right that people are concerned with things that are made in order to kill people, don't you?
Naval Vessels have lond been used in scientific research, British naval vessels in the 18th & 19th centurys sailed the globe and made scientific descoveries. Captain Cook for one, this vessel in the article is a naval vessel but was used in a scientific manner. Is this not a case of swords being turned into plough shares. This ship could not invade Lambay Island if it tried! I would think that Indy media would support this activity for national naval ships
the Nazis built motorways, what's your point?
Yes they did, about the only good thing that came from Germany in that era, but just because its a naval vessel does not mean its use is negative
I thought the idea of neutrality was to give equal "benefit" or hospitality to either side -and credence .
Mind you those Cork dock side bulidings must have looked like old USSR style buildings to the NATO crew -how miserable they look -- they may have been tempted to shell them .
Remember Dev went to give his condolences on Hitlers death in 1945 ?
Not certain what he did when FDR or Stalin for that matter died .
It’s worth restating that the visit of a naval vessel from a member state of the Atlantic alliance or any other pact is NOT a breach of Irish neutrality except in the minds of Ed Horgan and a few others. They might wish and press for some extreme form of neutrality which would rule out even reciprocal courtesy naval visits among neighbours. But that is not the same as baldly asserting that a visit such as this is “a breach of Irish neutrality” under the present neutrality policy.
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