🚢 South Africa receiving a growing number of visiting foreign naval vessels
After several quiet years during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, naval visitors to South Africa are increasing in numbers, with military vessels from France, the UK, China, Russia, India, and Japan amongst those stopping in South Africa in recent years.
The latest visitor was the German Navy frigate FGS Baden-Wurttemberg, which in mid-November called in Cape Town as it returned from an Indo-Pacific deployment. The vessel took the long way home around the Cape as it avoided the Red Sea and potential Houthi attack.
Other naval visitors to South Africa in the 2024/25 financial year are the roll-on/roll-off UK sealift vessel Anvil Point; France’s L’Astrolabe polar patrol vessel, the Chinese frigate CNS Xuchang, the Japanese training vessels JS Kashima and JS shimakaze, the Chinese space tracking ship Yuan Wang 7, the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark, the Russian training vessel Smolny, and the UK’s landing helicopter dock RFA Argus and sealift ship Hurst Point.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/south-africa-receiving-a-growing-number-of-visiting-foreign-naval-vessels/
After several quiet years during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, naval visitors to South Africa are increasing in numbers, with military vessels from France, the UK, China, Russia, India, and Japan amongst those stopping in South Africa in recent years.
The latest visitor was the German Navy frigate FGS Baden-Wurttemberg, which in mid-November called in Cape Town as it returned from an Indo-Pacific deployment. The vessel took the long way home around the Cape as it avoided the Red Sea and potential Houthi attack.
Other naval visitors to South Africa in the 2024/25 financial year are the roll-on/roll-off UK sealift vessel Anvil Point; France’s L’Astrolabe polar patrol vessel, the Chinese frigate CNS Xuchang, the Japanese training vessels JS Kashima and JS shimakaze, the Chinese space tracking ship Yuan Wang 7, the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark, the Russian training vessel Smolny, and the UK’s landing helicopter dock RFA Argus and sealift ship Hurst Point.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/south-africa-receiving-a-growing-number-of-visiting-foreign-naval-vessels/