The UK will also send an aircraft carrier to the region, including Singapore, next year
HMS Spey is one of two offshore patrol vessels of the Royal Navy deployed to the Indo-Pacific region since 2021.
He said that RSN personnel will visit the offshore patrol vessel HMS Spey while it is moored at the Sembawang naval installation to discuss with their Royal Navy counterparts ways that both navies can expand joint training and other collaborations. The ships have conducted missions such as patrols against illegal fishing in the South Pacific and monitoring United Nations’ sanctions against North Korea.
The FPDA, which also includes Australia, Malaysia and New Zealand, was established in 1971. In addition to conducting military training, the grouping provides consultation for the external defence of Singapore and Malaysia in the event of an armed attack.The Spey and Tamar, which is still at sea, have been supported in part from Singapore by the BDSSU, their primary logistics hub.
The Argus is a versatile vessel that can serve as a hospital ship with beds for up to 90 patients and has an operating theatre and an intensive care unit. According to the BDSSU’s commanding officer, Commander Edwin Cooper, the depot was built in 1938 as part of the British Naval Base.
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