On this day in1991, the Nuclear submarine HMS CHURCHILL is decommissioned and laid up in Rosyth Royal Dockyard awaiting disposal.She remains there to this day. All 19 of the RoyalNavy decommissioned nuclear submarines are still awaiting disposal in Rosyth or HMNBDevonport.

 

This British aircraft carrier served in the US Navy

 https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/british-aircraft-carrier-us-navy/

Italian Navy aircraft carrier ITS Cavour left the Taranto navy yard earlier this month, marking the end of an extensive upgrade that will allow the ship to operate the fifth-generation F-35B fighter jets.

 

 https://news.usni.org/2017/09/07/littoral-combat-ship-mission-package-testing-activity-time-high

11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29) in the Panama Canal,1945, en route to New York. Bataan received six battle stars for her World War II service and seven for her Korean War service.

 

The four propellers of HMS Hood, shortly before launching. These would shortly be driven by the most powerful machinery yet installed in a ship.

 

OnThisDay 1991. Type 42 Destroyer HMS GLOUCESTER destroyed an Iraqi Silkworm missile bound for USSMissouri with her Sea Dart missile system during Op. Granby. The first Gulf War.

 

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) sails alongside the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) with ships from the Nimitz and Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group during dual carrier operations. South China Sea 2021.

 

Esmeralda is a steel-hulled four-masted barquentine tall ship of the Chilean Navy.

 

Tense moment during the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Project 641/Foxtrot class SSK B-59 on the surface trying to evade the US Navy's Allen M. Sumner class destroyer USS Lowry (DD-770).

 

Light cruiser HMS Delhi just arrived Gibraltar for temporary repairs before moving on to United Kingdom. She had been damaged by Italian dive bombers in the Bay of Algiers on November 20, 1942, but did not leave her convoy duties in the following days.

 

F 111 Marasesti, served as the flgship of the Romanian Navy.

 

HMS Northumberland (F238) Type 23 frigate, escorting Russioan battle cruiser 'Pyotr Velikiy' (099), through the English Channel.

 

The Tuima class missile boat was a class of fast attack craft in use by the Finnish Navy. The vessels were constructed in the Soviet Union and purchased by the Finnish Navy between 1974 and 1975. The vessels were similar to the Soviet Project 205U Tsunami class missile boats, known in the west as Osa II.

 

JS Soryu (SS-501) diesel-electric submarine of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force after the collision with a Chinese commercial ship.

 

SV Tenacious with HMS Spey and HMS Defender in Portsmouth.

 The SV Tenacious is a modern British wooden sail training ship, specially designed in the 1990s. When completed in 2000, it was the largest wooden ship to be built in the UK for over 100 years.

The ship was built by the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) and, along with the STS Lord Nelson, the pair are the only tall ships in the world that were built so that both disabled and non-disabled people can sail as crew, not passengers. Features that cannot be found on other ships include wheelchair lifts throughout, unique ascender systems that allow wheelchair users to go aloft (either assisted or by their own efforts), a speaking compass for those with visual impairments, hearing loops, adjustable furniture for those with mobility difficulties, and a joystick to help individuals with dexterity limitations to helm the ship.

With the submarine threat on the rise, the US Navy looks to autonomous water sensor drones.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/02/17/with-the-submarine-threat-on-the-rise-the-us-navy-looks-to-autonomous-water-sensor-drones/

 

Royal Marines supported by the Royal Navy Warship HMS Montrose have intercepted over 2.6 tonnes of illicit drugs.

https://www.navaltoday.com/2021/02/17/royal-navy-frigate-seizes-2-4-tons-of-drugs-in-arabian-sea/ 

Analysis: British Navy unveils components of its UK Carrier Strike Group UKCSG.

 https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/focus-analysis/naval-technology/9710-the-birtish-navy-unveils-the-carrier-strike-group.html

TCG Yavuz F 240, (MEKO 200TN) Frigate. The Yavuz class are a group of four frigates that were built for the Turkish Navy

 

Leander Frigate HMS Arethusa in the frigate shed. 1986.

 

USS Nicholas, underway, during Sea Trials, 1942.

 

HMS Vanguard and HMS Resolution.

 

Bayonne Nval Supply Depot. 1953.

 The two large ships at right on the near side of the peninsula are Alaska (CB-1) and Guam (CB-2).

The next two ships astern are North Carolina (BB-55) and Washington (BB-56). Further astern are (from outboard to inboard) Fargo (CL-106), Albemarle (AV-5) and Wakefield (AP-21). The carriers Enterprise (CV-6) and Franklin (CV-13) are at the far left.

Also present are the escort carriers Card (CVE-11), Croatan (CVE-25), Mission Bay (CVE-59), and Guadalcanal (CVE-60) along with the cruisers Providence (CL-82), Little Rock (CL-92), Spokane (CLAA-120) and Fresno (CLAA-121). One of the two CLAAs is tied up outboard of the Alaska. 1953. Bayonne Naval Supply Depot.

Brand new CMACGM Rivoli leaving Shanghai shipyard.

 

HMS Penelope suffered a machinery breakdown in 1988, and collided with Canadian Supply sgip HMCS Preserver AOR 510 during a RAS. HMS Penelope caught the Preservers anchor cuttung the Port side open. Canadian vessel suffered $260,000 damage, whilst HMS Penelope was in th £millions.

 

Re-commissioning of the Karel Doorman in Schiedam 1958. Holland.

 

The stern of RMS Olympic. Sister ship of the Titanic.

 

Indian Chennai Kolkata class destroyer D65, INS Chennai.

 

USS Greenville from an RAF aircraft off the Falkland Islands.

 

Torpedo tubes on HMS Sheffield, with battlecruiser HMS Renown and carrier HMS Ark Royal in view, 1941.

 

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), left, conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13) as seen from USS Mitscher (DDG 57). Atlantic 2020.

 

Two in the water, one on land. HMCS Harry DeWolf and the two future RCN AOPS Margaret Brooke and Max Bernays in Halifax.

 

Conversion.

USS Albany (CA-123) during her conversion to a guided missile cruiser at the Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts (USA). Her conversion started in January 1959 and she recommissioned as CG-10 on 3 November 1962. In the foreground is the destroyer USS Gearing which ended her FRAM I conversion at Boston in October 1962. In the background is USS Glennon (DD-840) during her FRAM I conversion which lasted from August 1962 to 24 July 1963. The guided missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG-10) is visible behind Glennon.

Was going to say the Swiss Navy, but it might confuse.....! Answers on a post card. Boats ships were all coated in ice during winter storms that hit Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

 

Norwegian anti-submarine frigate HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl joined the UK’s Carrier Strike Group as it transits east across the Atlantic following deployment to the USA. The frigate joined HMS Queen Elizabeth, fellow submarine hunter HMS Northumberland.

 

Norfolk, VA. 1950.

 USS Missouri, BB-63, USS Albany, CA-123, USS Newport News, CA-148, USS Spokane, CLAA-120.

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 passes HMS Ark Royal (R09) during Queen Elizabeth's II Silver Jubilee Spithead Fleet Review, 1977.

 

USNS Laramie in Bosphorus. Brush up required.

 

HMS Richmond on approach to RFA Tidespring for a Replenishment At Sea.

 

Ex Kidd Class Destroyers from 1979. Decommiccioned in 1999 and 2005 then sold to Taiwan. DDG 1801 Kee Lung, DDG 1805 Ma Kong.

 

Russian Udaloy II class destroyer Admiral Chabanenko.

 

Ex Royal Navy Ships.

 Chilean navy Type 23 frigates moored at Valparaiso in 2018. From left to right; Almirante Cochrane (FF-05) Ex HMS Norfolk, Almirante Condell (FF-06) HMS Marlborough, and Almirante Lynch (FF-07) HMS Grafton.

County Class Destroyer HMS London under Tower Bridge 1981.

 

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Sept. 12, 2017) Turkish submarine rescue ship TCG Alemdar (A582) leads a formation during NATO submarine escape and rescue exercise Dynamic Monarch 17.

 

MV Mighty Servant 2 transports USS Samuel B. Roberts, damaged by an Iranian mine, from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island. 1988.

 

JS Shiranui (DD-120). Asahi class of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is optimized for undersea warfare.