The United Kingdom’s Astute class submarine, HMS Anson, has arrived in Western Australia, where over the coming weeks Australian personnel will assist in its planned maintenance. This is another major milestone for the AUKUS program — helping grow the skills and systems we’ll need for our own future conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines. | Richard Marles MP

The United Kingdom has sent the HMS Anson, an Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, to Australia as part of the AUKUS partnership’s rotational submarine presence initiative. The submarine departed from its base at Faslane, Scotland, and made its first port call in Gibraltar en route to the Indo-Pacific region under the framework of Submarine Rotational Force–West (SRF-West). The move reflects longstanding cooperation through the Australia–UK–US (AUKUS) security pact, which includes comm

The Corvette That Vanished in the Atlantic, HMS Gladiolus In just 18 months, HMS Gladiolus hunted U-boats from convoy to convoy, helping sink U-26, battering U-556, and fighting through the brutal slaughter of SC 42. But during SC 48, after reporting she had rescued a survivor, the corvette simply disappeared. No wreck, no survivors—only a mystery still drifting in the Battle of the Atlantic. | The Reliable Narrator