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By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
As part of the July 1992 U.S. Navy visit to the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet headquarters base at Severomorsk, the guided-missile cruiser Yorktown (CG-48) and destroyer O’Bannon (DD-987) conducted sea maneuvers with the destroyers Admiral Kharlamov of the Udaloy class and the Rastoropnyy (“Prompt”)—here with the O’Bannon—of the Sovremennyy class. Leading the first-ever port visit to the city some 180 miles north of the Arctic Circle was Rear Admiral John Scott Redd, Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 12. He and U.S. Navy officers and sailors visited the homes of local residents, conducted tours of their ships, visited Russian ships in return, and held a Well-attended 4th of July party. A group of U.S. enlisted personnel even “re-upped” on board the nuclear- powered guided-missile cruiser Kirov.
On 4 June 1992, the Persian Gulf state of Qatar ordered four 530-ton full-load, 185-foot guided-missile-patrol combatants from Great Britain’s Vosper Thornycroft. The well-balanced weapon suite includes four French \lM-40 Exocet antiship missiles, a Point-defense surface-to-air missile system for Mistral fire-and-forget ■nfrared-homing missiles, an Italian 76-mm. OTO Melara dual-purpose gun forward, and a Dutch Goalkeeper close-in weapon system with a General Electric 30-mm. Gatling gun aft. Four diesels power the ship.
One ship—two pendant lumbers. Midway through a J'efit in August, the Royal Navy’s 6,500-ton Antarctic Patrol ship Endurance displayed her new name on the starboard quarter, her old Pendant number A 176 * W hich she bore under the „ Name Polar Circle during her | irst five-month South Atlantic deployment earlier i
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red-painted hull side. The new number commemorates the previous Endurance, which served from 1967 to 1991 and participated in the Falklands Conflict of 1982. As part of the overhaul, the new Endurance, completed in 1990 for commercial service, is receiving a much-enlarged helicopter hangar and having some of her scientific equipment removed.