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Rosh
PostPosted: 07 Dec 2015, 15:15 
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Some promising developments in the right direction!
http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41714:naval-station-durban-officially-becomes-a-base&catid=111:sa-defence&Itemid=242

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Amazing how things take so long to happen. Its been years of just talking and it has still not even started :oops: :roll:

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The started. The place was really run down though.
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PostPosted: 26 Jun 2016, 21:17 

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Have the Strike craft officially been moved to Salisbury island?

Was at the harbour today and could see the Protea and two strikecraft on the quay with another out of the water on a synchrolift?
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Rosh
PostPosted: 27 Jun 2016, 09:42 
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Not that i am aware of...but then again, what makes it official?
They Protea was there as part of Durban Port Festival.

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All three in port and the fact that one is on the lift there rather than in Simon's Town would be a strong indication that Durban is now their home port.
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the fact that one is on the lift there rather than in Simon's Town would be a strong indication that Durban is now their home port


Not really, they were all re-fitted in Durban when they were moved down there.

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The SA Navy has regarded Durban as being the home base for the OPVs (Strikecraft) for a while, I think since last year.

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Dean wrote:
The SA Navy has regarded Durban as being the home base for the OPVs (Strikecraft) for a while, I think since last year.

Since it was redesignated a Base. The essential defining difference between a naval station and a base is the fact that a base is the home port for at least one ship, a naval station only has ships visiting.
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PostPosted: 28 Jun 2016, 17:18 

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I know they made that announcement last year. Just never seemed like they were being operated out of there.

Barely ever saw them out in the bay, but maybe that's just because they operate differently than in CT.
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