Exercise Cutlass Fury 2019

Exercise Cutlass Fury 2019 will run from September 9-20, and will begin with a sailpast (and flypast) of the Halifax waterfront on Monday, September 9th. The ships began arriving today, Thursday September 5th. It is planned to have some ships open to the public over the weekend, however, we have yet to see what impact the remnants of Hurricane Dorian will have on this.

My photos of the exercise will appear in a gallery on my Smugmug website as I upload them.

Ships having arrived to date include:

Sisterships HNLMS VAN SPEIJK (Dutch) and BNS LEOPOLD I (Belgian).

The Dutch built a class of Karel Doorman class frigates in the early 1990s, and have recently sold some of the ships to the Belgians and the Portuguese - thus there are three ships of the same class here this year, all belonging to different navies. In fact, LEOPOLD I on the right of the above photo, is actually the lead ship of the class - the former HNLMS KAREL DOORMAN herself.

USS GRIDLEY.

HNoMS THOS HEYERDAHL.

HDMS PETER WILLEMOES

USS JASON DUNHAM

HMS NORTHUMBERLAND

NRP DOM FRANCISCO DE ALMEIDA

NRP DOM FRANCISCO DE ALMEIDA is another of the Karel Doorman class frigates here this year.

USNS PATUXENT

HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC will also participate.

I will no doubt post more on this subject, and may fill in some more information on this post as I have time - assuming we have power over the weekend, that is.