Mayflower Autonomous Ship. (MAS).

                                https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ibm-launches-autonomous-ship-with-a-trans-atlantic-crossing-scheduled-in-2021/

November 21, 2020 was the 400th anniversary of the day the Mayflower arrived at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

 

Finnish Company Marine Alutech displays its military transport vessel Watercat M9.

 

June 1946: Surplus ships sitting in harbour after WWII awaiting disposal.

 

A Project 641b Som submarine B-307 about to be dragged to its current location in a Togliatti museum, 5 km inland.

 

On this day in 1941 Battleship HMS BARHAM struck by 3 torpedos from U-331 in the Mediterranean.She capsizes to port & sinks within 4 mins after a massive explosion. 862 men were killed from a ships company of over 1200.

Clemson-class destroyer USS Dahlgren (DD-187) leaving the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 4 August 1932.

 

Russian Udaloy Class Destroyer.

 

Dido Class Anti-aircraft Cruiser HMS Cleopatra. Seen in early 1945 after the removal of Q turret and its replacement with a quad bofors mount. She would become the first vessel into the newly recaptured harbour at Singapore after the Japanese surrender.

 

USS John S McCain.

Russia says one of its warships caught and chased off a US Navy destroyer after it entered territorial waters in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday.

Moscow accused the USS John S McCain of travelling 2km (1.2 miles) across its maritime border in Peter the Great Gulf and says it threatened to ram the ship.
The US warship then left the area, according to Russia.
However, the US Navy denied any wrongdoing and said its ship had not been "expelled".
The incident took place on Tuesday in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, a body of water bordered by Japan, Russia and the Koreas.
According to the Russian defence ministry, its Pacific Fleet destroyer the Admiral Vinogradov used an international communications channel to warn the US ship about "the possibility of using ramming to get the intruder out of the territorial waters".
"The Russian Federation's statement about this mission is false," said a spokesman for the US Navy's 7th Fleet, Lt Joe Keiley. "USS John S McCain was not 'expelled' from any nation's territory."
He said the US "would "never bow in intimidation or be coerced into accepting illegitimate maritime claims, such as those made by the Russian Federation".
Such incidents at sea are rare, although the Admiral Vinogradov was also involved in a near-collision with a US cruiser in the East China Sea last year.
Both Russia and the US exchanged blame for that incident.

Arctic Ocean.

 Into the Bears backyard.

ARCTIC OCEAN (May 5, 2020) The Type-23 Duke-class frigate HMS Kent (F78), the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78), the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), and USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) conduct a photo exercise (PHOTOEX) while conducting joint operations to ensure maritime security in the Arctic Ocean 2020.

                                                                              HMS Kent

USNS Kingsport (T-AG-164).

 USNS Kingsport (T-AG-164) began its career as Kingsport Victory (T-AK-239), which served as a cargo vessel during World War II. The ship was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet after transfer to the Maritime Commission on 29 September 1947. On 8 August 1948 the ship was withdrawn from reserve to become USAT Kingsport Victory under charter to the Army until transfer to the Navy.[1] The ship was involved in a legal case, JOHANSEN, v. UNITED STATES,[2] involving rights of Army civilian crew in personal injury cases. Kingsport Victory was acquired by the United States Navy from the Maritime Commission on 1 March 1950, and carried military cargo for the next eleven years as USNS Kingsport Victory (T-AK-239). On 24 September 1961, she was delivered to the Portland, Oregon facilities of Willamette Iron & Steel Company where she underwent conversion to a satellite communication ship. On 14 November 1961 she was renamed Kingsport and reclassified AG-164.

Designed for use by the United States Army Satellite Communications Agency in the defense satellite communications programs, Project ADVENT, Kingsport Victory underwent extensive alteration during conversion. A special high frequency radio station was installed for ship-to-shore communications. She received advanced tracking and telemetry equipment and anti-roll stabilization tanks. In addition, a 30-foot, gyro-stabilized, computer-oriented, triaxial, parabolic antenna was installed on her afterdeck. Housed in a 53-foot, plastic, air-pressurized radome, this antenna permitted precision tracking of a high altitude satellite at any angle above the horizon.

Which one for you?

 

A starboard bow view of the guided missile destroyer USS BENJAMIN STODDERT (DDG-22), with crew members manning the rail during Fleet Week activities. Visible in the background is Alcatraz Island. 1981.

 

Type 23 Frigate HMS Monmouth. Carries 32 Sea Wolf VLS cells, 8 Harpoon anti ship missiles, and a 4.5" Gun up front.

 Type 23 frigate HMS Monmouth on patrol. Following a successful maintenance period in July and a well deserved leave period during August, it is now back to business for HMS Monmouth. Since returning from her Gulf deployment one third of the Ship’s Company have moved on. The challenge is now to train and integrate 50 new faces as quickly as possible in order to be fully ready for the future programme. To start the autumn programme, Monmouth has been tasked with training international Warfare Officers, conducting assessment for future ships’ Navigators and supporting various helicopter squadrons with their aviation training. Alongside these commitments, the Black Duke assumes responsibility as the Fleet Ready Escort at the start of October. This means that if an unforeseen event takes place around UK waters, Monmouth will be tasked to respond. Whilst the Ship will be working hard to meet these responsibilities, there are some exciting port visits in Wales, Ireland and Scotland over the coming months. This will help break up the time at sea and will allow the Ship’s Company to step ashore and explore some new cities, whilst giving us the opportunity to let the public see the ‘Black Duke’ close up.

USS Ajax (AR-6) with; USS Cavalier (APA-37), USS Currituck (AV-7) and USS Boyd (DD-544) alongside at Naval Station Sasebo, Japan, circa 1961-62.

 

USS Carronade IFS 1.

 

HMS Liverpool D92 alongside USS Iowa during Exercise Northern Wedding '86.

 

FREMM Frigate “Rizzo” with Amerigo Vespucci Tall Ship.

 

The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7) and the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Blake (C99) moored at Manila, Philippines, in 1975. In between is a Leander-class frigate, HMS Leander (F109). The ships took part in the SEATO exercise "Seafox".

 

HMS Bristol D 23.

 

HMS Bristol (D23) was a Type 82 destroyer, the only vessel of her class to be built for the Royal Navy. Originally intended as the first of a class of large destroyers to escort the CVA-01 aircraft carriers projected to come into service in the early 1970s, Bristol turned out to be a unique ship: the rest of the class were cancelled with the CVA-01 carriers in the 1966 Strategic Defence Review. Following a long career which included the Falklands War, she was converted into a training ship in 1987. In 1991 while part of the Dartmouth training squadron, she suffered a Olympus gas turbine failure that damaged the power turbine. The damage was beyond economical repair and no longer having enough value to be sold to another navy, she became a Harbour Training ship at HMS Excellent. She was decommissioned in Portsmouth on 28 October 2020.

Paddle minesweeper HMS Ascot was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-67 off the Farne Islands. She was the last Royal Navy ship lost in the First World War. All on board were lost: 6 officers and 47 crew. 1918.

 

USS Barbour County (LST-1195) aground on Silver Strand in 1984.

 

Polish corvette ORP Kaszub, the one and only Project 620-class ship, during a storm in the Baltic Sea firing her AK-176 76mm gun.

 

HMS Mull of Kintyre, Minesweeper Depot Ship, in Singapore.

 

The Navy's baby flattop USS Nahenta Bay is heeled over at its berth at the Bethlehem Shipyards in East Boston after it broke away from its moorings during the height of the 100 mile per hour hurricane Carol that swept over the northeast mainland. Being refitted after having been taken out of mothballs for return to service, the vessel heeled over at a 15 degree angle and got stuck in the mud. A huge dockside gantry crane (left) toppled down atop the flattop and was wrecked.

 

HMS Valiant anchored in Alexandria.

 

USS Langley (CV-1) in the Panama Canal, 16 November 1924.

 

Leander Class Frigate HMS Andromeda 1970.

 

Landing craft, air cushion 65, assigned to Assault Craft Unit 5, departs the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8).

 

Moskva is the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class of guided missile cruisers in the Russian Navy.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth entering Portsmouth.

 

The battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) fires a Mark 7 16-inch/50-caliber guns from the No. 3 turret at a target ship during Fleet Exercise '89.

 

The ill-fated HMS Coventry (D118) at Hong Kong in 1980, two years before her loss off Pebble Island, West Falkland.

 

Sea Shadow (IX-529), an experimental ship built by Lockheed to test naval stealth capabilities. According to Ben Rich in his book, Skunk Works, it worked so well it left a big hole in a RADAR picture where sea clutter should have been.

 

RFS Admiral Panteleyev (546) Project 1155, Udaloy-class destroyer returning to Vladivostok after Pacific and Indian Ocean exercises.

 

HMS Victorious.

 

With a length of 304' from her bowsprit to spanker, USS Constitution was nearly as long as four-piper destroyers, together in this photo of Charleston Navy Yard in Boston.

 

Ship General-Admiral of the Russian Navy at Columbian Naval Review, 1893.

 

Pausing for Remembrance Day, in front of Type 26 frigate HMS Glasgow.

 

Type 23 Frigate HMS Lancaster and Norwegian Frigate HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen.