The poor condition of USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin, with USS Shangri-la behind, before reactification in the 1980's.

On this day in 1878 HMS Gannet was launched in Sheerness. After spells as a training ship leaving active service she arrived in Chatham Dockyard, to be restored and preserved where she is on display now.

On this day in 1945 the Royal Navy entered Hong Kong to liberate from the Japanese army. 500 men from HMS Swiftsure and HMS Euraylus to clear the dockyard.

USS Piedmont (AD-17) under way in the Pacific Ocean in April 1970.

 

HMS Lowestoft, RFA Resurgent, HMS Ark Royal, RFA Olmeda and HMS Leopard.

 

OnThisDay 1969, the Submarine, HMS CONQUEROR was launched at Camell Laird. She was the last Nuclear boat to be built at the Birkenhead Yard. She served the RN for 19 years, famously sinking the Belgrano during Falklands. Flying the Jolly Roger. Paid off in 1990 she currently awaits disposal in Devonport.

 

USS Killen (DD-539), USS Canberrra (CA-70) repairing battle damage in floating dry dock USS ABSD-2 1944.

 

America ESG Trains With Queen Elizabeth CSG.

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HSwMS Gävle (K22) Göteborg class corvette armed with eight RBS-15 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, one 57 mm cannon and one 40 mm cannon, exiting her underground dock at Muskö Naval Base, Sweden.

 

HMS HOWE JOINS THE FLEET, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, JULY 1942.

 

USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) is a planned Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the 78th overall for the class, and her sonar dome is being shown lifted onto a barge at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, MS.

 

USS America, HMS Queen Elizabeth and JS Ise sail together

 

GUNS.

French cruiser Colbert in her pre-1970 anti-aircraft configuration. No room for any guns?
As built the cruiser had an absurd amount of antiaircraft guns; sixteen 127 mm guns in eight twin turrets and twenty 57 mm guns in ten twin turrets. As supersonic aircraft and missiles came into existence, her gun-based armaments were rendered obsolete and ineffective, and Colbert was converted into a missile cruiser. From 1993 to 2007 she was a museum ship at Bordeaux, France; following the closing of the museum due to financial difficulties, the ship is now awaiting disposal.

Is there any room for a gun!

USS Washington (BB-56), USS North Carolina (BB-55), USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Santa Fe (CL-60), photographed from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). 1944.

 

Abercrombie-class monitor HMS Raglan towed leaving H&W shipyard shortly after completion, June 1915.

 

HMS Victory moments before being rammed by the ironclad HMS Neptune on 23rd October 1903. She was hit on her port side with the bow ram impacting the Orlop Deck after the ironclad broke free of her tow cables while on her way to being scrapped.

 

Cunard RMS Mauritania sailing into New York Harbour with returning war veterans.

 

USS Arizona 1918.

 

HMS Euryalus passing an Egyptian mine spotting post on the Suez Canal, 27 October 1942.

 

HMS Middleton & HMS Shoreham Leaving Bahrain After Three Years.

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USS Enterprise (CV-6) making her final voyage from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the scrapper yard in New Jersey.

 

The French cruiser Dupleix (1900-1922) in 1903.

The Dupleix class was a class of armored cruisers built for the French Navy at the beginning of the 

20 th  century.

French frigate Melpomène. Built in Rochefort in 1883, she was a training ship for the gabiers. From 1893 to 1904, it embarked each year the students of the merchant navy

 

On this day in 1883, the first US Navy ship was electrified. The first ship to get electric lighting USS Trenton.

 

OnThisDay 1918 HMS HOOD was launched on the Clyde. At the time the most powerful and largest warship in the world and at 860ft long she was only 70 ft shorter the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

 

Project 941 'Akula'.

The Typhoon class, Soviet designation Project 941 Akula (Russian: Акула, meaning "shark", NATO reportingname Typhoon), is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built by the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy. With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tonnes,the Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built, able to accommodate comfortable living facilities for the crew of 160 when submerged for months on end.

USS Wisconsin (BB-64), foreground, conducts an underway replenishment with the fast combat support ship USS Sacramento (AOE-1) as USS Missouri (BB-63) in the background steams nearby. The ships are in the gulf as part of Operation Desert Shield. August 8, 1991.

 

The replica of the French frigate Hermione and the George Leygues-class ASW frigate Latouche-Tréville salute one another as the Hermione leaves la Rochelle for her US trip.

 

HMS KELLY.

 Her story: https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=890

USS Tennessee (BB-43) makes a port call at Vancouver after winning a gunnery contest among the units of the US Pacific Fleet. RMS Empress of Australia (former German liner Tirpitz) is in the background. 1922.

 

Finnish Coastal Defense ship Väinämöinen, 1938. Väinämöinen was a Finnish coastal defence ship, the sister ship of the Finnish Navy's flagship Ilmarinen and also the first ship of her class. Built in 1932, scrapped by Russia 1966.

 

OnThisDay 70 years ago in 1951 the first Royal Navy operational warship powered by gas turbines, HMS BOLD PIONEER was launched in Isle of Wight. Although not a total success she could achieve speeds of 43 Knots and helped develop the gas turbine for Naval use around the world.

 

USS Fort Marion (LSD-22), USS Missouri (BB-63), USS Roanoke (CL-145) and USS Worcester (CL-144). Bremerton 1970.

 

The prototype railgun equipped on a Chinese Type 072III landing ship from January 2018. Recently, funding for the US Navy's own railgun and Hypervelocity Projectile (HVP) R&D programs wasn't included in their FY2022 budget proposal.

 

Pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Renown during the Fleet Review at Spithead for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, with the Prince of Wales aboard.

 

USS Abnaki (ATF-96).

 USS Abnaki (ATF-96) underway at Pearl Harbour, February 1952.

USS Abnaki (ATF-96) with the captured German submarine U505 in tow, 7 June 1944.

The battlecruiser HMS Inflexible, on the slipway. She had 5 torpedo tubes, 4 amidships, and one stern tube visible.

 

Norwegian submarine Utvaer (S-303) arrives at Naval Station Norfolk, 2010.

 

A starboard-bow view of the USS Michigan (SSBN-727) being constructed at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. 21 December 1978.

 

USS Canberra (CA-70) under tow toward Ulithi Atoll after she was torpedoed while operating off Okinawa. USS Houston (CL-81), also torpedoed and under tow, is in the right background. Canberra was hit amidships on 13 October 1944. Houston was torpedoed twice, amidships on 14 October and aft on 16 October. The tugs may be USS Munsee (ATF-107), which towed Canberra, and USS Pawnee (ATF-74).