Red October has final voyage. RIP Sir Sean 'One Ping' Connery.

 

USS Birmingham (CL-62) passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, en route to take part in the invasion of Sicily, circa June 1943. Gibraltar is in the distance.

 

Paddle tug HMS Cracker eScorting HMS Lancaster, in Malta.

 

HMS Lancaster leaving Portsmouth passing HMS QE and HMS PofW.

 

USS The Sullivans.

 

The Akula class (or Typhoon according to the NATO code) resulting from project 941 is a class of Soviet and then Russian nuclear missile launchers (SSBNs).

 

Light cruiser USS Duluth CL-87 in camouflage.

 

unusual shot of HMS QE.

The US aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) refueling from the USS Housatonic (AO-35) tanker in the Atlantic.

 

USS Chevalier. DD 805.

 

Screw frigate HMS Immortalite, capable of making 12 knots, she was allegedly the fastest wooden warship of her time under sail.

 

French Submarine.

 

USCGC Pontchartrain (WHEC-70) battles heavy seas near Greenland while on Ocean Station duty,

 

HMS Barham.

                                                                      The end.

                                          

Kongo class battlecruiser.

Kongo class battlecruiser in dry dock. At the beginning of the 20th century, Japan saw itself as the dominant power in the Pacific. Just like any other super power, it needed capital ships. However, Japan did not have the technological knowhow to build them, so they ordered multiple ships from Great Britain. The Kongo class battlecruiser was the last ship ordered abroad.

 

Higgins-type motor torpedo boats (PTs) of Motor Torpedo Squadron 13, moored alongside the tender USS Gillis (AVD-12) in Casco Cove, Massacre Bay, Attu Island, Aleutians,

 

The forward VLS and countermeasure systems of Russian Admiral Gorshkov class frigate Admiral Kasatonov.

 

Today in 1797 in Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.

 

USS Idaho (BB-42) in the 1930s, after modernization.

 

HMS Sheffield. (The shiny sheff).

 HMS Sheffield was one of the Southampton sub class of the Town-class cruisers of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She took part in actions against several major German warships. Unlike most Royal Navy ships of her time, her fittings were constructed from stainless steel instead of the more traditional brass. This was an attempt to reduce the amount of cleaning required on the part of the crew. Her nickname, the "Shiny Sheff", stemmed from this. A prototype radar system was placed into service in August 1938 on the Sheffield. It was the first vessel in the Royal Navy to be so equipped.

HMS Illustrious entering Captain Cook graving dock Sydney 1945.

USS Iowa and HMS Coventry.

USS Jupiter, fuel ship No 3, recommissioned as USS Langley, CV 1, the US navy's first carrier, 1922.

HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales in Portsmouth.

Greek Zubr class (Project 1232.2, NATO reporting name Pomornik) air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC) and a Apachi helicopter.

 

HMS ADAMANT with some of her submarines at Fremantle,1946.

 

A US Navy blimp flies over USS Forrestal aircraft carrier under construction at Newport News Yards,1955.

 

USS Burton Island (AG-88), USS Atka (AGB-3), and USS Glacier (AGB-4).

PUSHING an iceberg out of the channel near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 Dec 1965. While all three served in the US Navy and Coast Guard, the Atka also served in the Soviet Navy as the Admiral Makarov 

Monitor-Faa-di-Bruno.

 

Faà di Bruno was an Italian monitor laid down on 10 October 1915 being designed by Rear Admiral Giuseppe Rota it was essentially a self-propelled barge as she lacked a bow and, it was armed with a main battery of one, twin 15 inch gun. The ship was launched on 30 January 1916 and commissioned into the Regia Marina on 1 April 1917. Her first action came during the 11th Battle of the Isonzo in August 1917. Together with the Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini and the British monitors Earl of Peterborough and Sir Thomas Picton, she bombarded Austro-Hungarian positions with little noticeable effect. She was driven ashore in a storm in November, but was not salvaged for almost a full year.

Japan Maritime Self Defense Force / JMSDF - Destroyer DD-118 JS Fuyuzuki

 

Oscar II Class K-266 Oryol Rudder group of project 949 A.

 

A starboard bow view of the guided missile destroyer USS KIDD (DDG-993) and the Spruence class destroyer USS PETERSON (DD-969) moored together on the north side of pier 24 at the Norfolk Naval Base. This photo shows the differences in the regular destroyer versus the guided missile type. The KIDD is equipped with the more advanced SPS-48 and SPS-49 radar antennae. The Mark 15 missile launcher is aft of the 5Ó gun mount.

 

HMNB Portsmouth Dockyard during the Trafalgar 200 Celebrations.

 

Maersk Line Maren, built in 2014 and sails under the Danish flag.

 

USS Cleveland, South Boston,1929.

 

Type 45 Daring Class Destroyer HMS Diamond entering Portsmouth HMNB.

 

Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Wichita.

 

USNS Benavidez (T-AKR-306) transits the English Channel.

 

HMS Dragon.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth with Gibraltar for a backdrop.

 

Aircraft carriers HMS Implacable, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Glory at Princes Pier Melbourne, Australia, January 1946

 

USS Wyoming as AG-17, Gunnery Training Ship

 

County class destroyer HMS London (D16), off the coast of South America, 1964.

 

French ironclad Redoutable, she was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material.

 

Every ship can be a submarine once ... HMS Northumberland in the North Sea!