A stone frigate, HMS Excellent, known as Whale Island. HMNB in the distance.

 

D90 HMS Southampton, D89 HMS Exeter and D91 HMS Nottingham Type 42 Destroyers mothballed at Portsmouth.

 

A Type 45 destroyer, Arleigh Burke class destroyer and Ticonderoga class cruiser.

 

USS Brooklyn 1890's.

 

OnThisDay 50 years ago in 1971 the first of 8 RoyalNavy Type 21 Frigates, HMS AMAZON, was launched. She served until 1993 when she was sold to the PakistanNavy serving as PNS Babur until 2015. Seen here breaking away from RFA Bayleaf (A109), a Leaf-class support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

 

Heavy cruiser HMS York sails past the Finnish sea fortress Suomenlinna/Sveaborg.

 

A Sea Hawk medium displacement unmanned surface vessel sails by Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem

 

HMS Abercrombie was a Royal Navy Roberts-class monitor of the Second World War. Abercrombie was built by Vickers Armstrong, Tyne, laid down on 26 April 1941, launched on 31 March 1942 and completed on 5 May 1943. Scrapped 1954.

 

THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID 23 APRIL 1918.

 The aim of this raid was to sink several old ships in the canal entrance at Zeebrugge to stop German U-boats from using the port.HMS Vindictive, along with the requisitioned Liverpool ferryboats Iris and Daffodil, carried parties of Royal Marines and sailors.Their job was to subdue the German defences located on the mole that protected the harbour whilst other naval personnel sank the block ships in the shipping channel.The attacking Royal Navy forces lost their element of surprise when the smoke cover cleared revealing their positions to the German forces defending the harbour. Thereafter they came under intense attack.Under heavy fire Vindictive berthed further away from the planned position. The landing parties then faced a daunting barrage as they crossed specially contrasted gangplanks and descended about five metres from the top of the wall to the main level of the mole.Despite several gallant actions they failed to neutralise the German guns which made it harder to sink the block ships in the planned positions. After an hour the British naval forces retreated.

Ultimately, the raid had limited success as the canal only remained blocked for a few days.

Pre wetting gone crazy....

 

Bearn was an aircraft carrier comverted from a Normandie class battleship in the 1920's for the French navy.

 

HMS Triumph Pre-Wetting Trial 1964.

 

Japanese Navy DD-154 JS Amagiri.

 

All 3 Colorado class battleships 1932. USS West Virginia leads, USS CColorado, USS Maryland with USS California bringing up the rear.

 

OnThisDay 1918 the RoyalNavy Grand Fleet deployed in full fighting array for the last time in wartime to counter a German sortie in the North Sea. Admiral Beatty sailed with 193 ships including: 31 battleships, 4 battle cruisers, 24 light cruisers & 85 destroyers.

 

County class destroyer HMS Glamorgan.

 

USS ADAMS (1876-1920) and USS OSSIPEE (1862-1890)-left

 USS Adams was a screw gunboat and the lead ship of the Adams class, and a single screw, wooden hull, bark rigged steamer. Launche in 1874 and broken up 1921.

USS Ossipee was a wooden screw sloop of war, betwee 1861 and 1889, and served in the Union Navy during the Civil War. She was sold in Alaska in 1891.

The flagship of this fleet was built in 1971 and was called Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. It was the largest and most modern follow-up ship in the USSR. It had 86 laboratories and 75 antennas. The ship's stabilizer ensured relatively comfortable working conditions even during a severe storm.

 

USS Indianapolis (CA-35) being fitted out. She was launched a month earlier but 11 months more are required for the ship to be commissioned. Camden, NJ, 1931.

 

HMS Glasgow’s main radar mast being delivered.

 

The bow of HMS Glasgow the first city class Type 26 frigate rolling out of the build hall on the River Clyde. the forward section contains the bridge, ops room and accomodation spaces, and will be jined by the aft section at a later date.

 

U.S. Navy surface drones Seahawk, front, and Sea Hunter launched Tuesday during the Navy's first-ever unmanned exercise in San Diego.

 

Royal Navy Boom Defence vessel reovering a Gannet.

 

USS John F Kennedy.

 

Type 42 destroyer HMS Nottingham in stormy North Atlantic weather, 200 miles west of Ireland, 2004.

 

Salvage and rescue work underway on USS Mindanao (ARG-3) shortly after Mount Hood blew up about 350 yards away.

 

The explosion of the USS Mount Hood. The smoke trails are left by fragments ejected by the explosion. The USS Mindanao (ARG-3), which lay about 300 m away, was heavily damaged by the explosion and 180 of her crewmen were killed or injured.

 

USS Yorktown (CVS-10) in a posed formation with her escorts and some of her aircraft during Exercise Sea Imp, in 1966.

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CVS-10) in a posed formation with her escorts and some of her aircraft during Exercise Sea Imp, a major Southeast Asia Treaty Organization exercise conducted in the Western Pacific during the first part of 1966. The escorts are the guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) and the destroyers USS Taylor (DD-468) and USS Jenkins (DD-447) at left. The destroyer escort USS Bronstein (DE-1037) leads USS Hooper (DE-1026) and USS Bridget (DE-1024). Planes overhead include Grumman S-2E Trackers of Anit-Submarine Squadron 23 (VS-23) "Black Cats" and VS-25 "Golden Eagles", a Grumman E-1B Tracer of Carrier Airborne Warning Squadron 11 Det.T "Early Eleven" and Sikorsky SH-3A Sea Kings from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4 (HS-4) "Black Knights". All squadrons were assigned to Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 55 (CVSG-55) aboard the Yorktown for a deployment to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 5 January to 27 July 1966.

HMS Repulse (left) and HMS Erebus (right) at the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons, circa 1916, both ships carried 15″ guns. Destroyers HMS Romola and HMS Peregrine aft alongside. Submarine E35 in front.

 

JMSDF Japan.

 

Right to left, the French armoured cruiser Jules Michelet, the American armoured cruiser USS Pittsburgh and the Japanese protected cruiser Chikuma, moored at Shanghai, 1927.

                                                            

                                                      USS Pittsburgh same period. 

OnThisDay in 1953, HMS CONWAY, formerly HMS NILE went ashore in the Menai Straits off Anglesey, Wales. The school ship, used to train cadets, was on her way to Birkenhead for a refit.

 

USS Nicholas (DD/DDE-449) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, which served through most of World War II, and for 27 years and two more wars after.

 

Hayabusa-class, Pennant No 826, Otaka, is a guided missile patrol boat class of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Behind is JS Hatakaze (DDG-171), is a Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyer.

 

Assigned to the 6th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet, American battleship USS Florida (BB-30) is having a brief rest following the Armistice. She will soon depart for Scapa Flow to meet the to-be-interned German High Seas Fleet. Mid-November 1918, Rosyth.

 

At Scapa Flow the funnel and bridge of HMS ONSLOW, riddled with splinter holes as the result of hits received during her successful engagement of the North Cape. 1943.

 

USNS John Ericsson pulls away from HMAS Sydney in stormy conditions following a Replenishment at Sea.

 

The fuel the Royal Navy used to run, on in my time....!

 

HMS Defiance, last wooden (screw) ship of the line ever to be completed for the Royal Navy

 

The Kriesgmarine's M-156 minesweeper was damaged by the Canadians off Brignogan. Brest. 1944. Remains of a German M-type mine sweeper, battered by Allied destroyer and aircraft at Bele des Anges off Brittany Coast,

 

HMS Richmond, HMS Westminster and HMS Lancaster.

 

The bow of Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) viewed from the intermediate gate at Dry Dock 12, at Newport News Shipbuilding.

 

Pre-Dreadnaught battleship USS New Jersey.

 

The Crystal Endeavor is a state-of-the-art expedition ship from Crystal Cruises. Completed in 2020, it will enter service in 2021.

USS Mississippi BB41, Norfolk Navy Yard for modernisation, 1933. She was originally commissioned March 1919. Fought through WW2 and was present for the Japaese surrender. USS Idaho BB42 to the rear.

 

USS New Jersey (BB-62), left, and the British light aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R07) tied up to Alava Pier, U.S. Naval Station Subic Bay, Philippines, on 1 August 1988. The guided missile cruiser USS Sterett (CG-31) is visible in the center background.