HMS Magpie

The Royal Navy has tested cutting-edge software to map the seabed close to shore in hours – not days or weeks. Survey vessel HMS Magpie was able to chart the waters around Plymouth purely using regular radar installed on shipping the world over and a specialist computer program which measures wave height. Using that data and information about currents, the software can … [Read more...] about The Royal Navy tests cutting-edge software to map the seabed rapidly

The Royal Navy’s newest ship has been commissioned at a ceremony in Devonport Naval Base. HMS Magpie is the newest addition to the Royal Navy’s Hydrographic Squadron, replacing veteran survey ship HMS Gleaner, which paid off earlier this year in Plymouth after 35 years’ service. Lieutenant Commander William Alexander, HMS Magpie’s first Commanding Officer and Gleaner’s … [Read more...] about HMS Magpie, the Royal Navy’s newest ship commissioned in Devonport