Project 1241, class of Soviet missile corvettes.

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 770) refuelling USS Lake Champlain (CG 557)

JS Atago DDG-177 and JS Ikazuchi DD-107.

Norwegian patrol craft.

HMS Kent leaving Guam, and rejoining HMS Queen Elizabeth and CSG21.

HMS Kent leaving Guam, to rejoin HMS Queen Elizabeth and CSG21.

Depth charges exploding behind the US Navy Destroyer Escort USS Edsall (DE-129) in 1943.

 

Cruisers USS Albany (CG-10) and USS Columbus (CG-12) at Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, in 1972. The guided missile destroyer USS Dewey (DLG-14) is partially visible on the left. Note the SPS-48 radar on Albany's forward mack. It signifies the modernisation of Albany in 1967-1968. USS Chicago (CG-11) was also modernized, only Columbus received no modernization. She still carries SPS-30 radar forward. This was the reason that Columbus was already retired in 1975, five years earlier than her sister ships. 1972.

 

On This Day in 1580 Francis Drake returned to Plymouth 3 years after leaving, during which he became 1st commander to circumnavigate the world. A replica of his ship the Golden Hind (originally Pelican) is in London. The Queen Elizabeth I share of treasure, was more than rest of her income for that year.

 Red Arrows overfly.

The U.S. Navy repair ship USS Klondike (AR-22) in Subic Bay, Philippines, on 1 November 1963.

The destroyers alongside, all "FRAM II" types of Destroyer Squadron 15, are: (from inboard to outboard): USS Taussig (DD-746); USS John A. Bole (DD-755); USS Lofberg (DD-759); and USS John W. Thomason (DD-760).

Nuclear attack submarine, HMS Astute, surfaced next to Type 45 destroyer, HMS Dauntless.

 

U.S. Navy destroyers Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia (USA), during the spring or early summer of 1943. They are (from left to right): USS Edison (DD-439), USS Schroeder (DD-501), USS Spence (DD-512) and USS Foote (DD-511).

 

Polish Navy ORP Grom. ORP Grom is an Orkan-class fast attack craft. It is the sister ship of Orkan and Piorun.

 

Originally called the Leander Refit Complex, now Frigate Support Complex in HMNB Devonport The structure covers 3 dry docks and has been a Plymouth landmark ever since 1977.

 

USS Houston (CA-30) being welcomed in Hawaii, 1930's.

 

Wreck of Russian submarine K-141, Kursk, at Roslyakovo Shipyard in Murmansk, 2001.

 

Hangar bay of USS Ranger (CV-61), 9 January 1989.

 

On this day 1911. HMS Hawke.

The RMS Olympic, known as 'Old Reliable' collided with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke on her fifth voyage.

The collision occured when HMS Hawke was caught off guard and rammed the starboard side of the Olympic. It resulted in two large hole above and below the waterline, and a twisted propeller shaft. The Captain Edward J Smith, who would command the doomed RMS Titanic less than a year later was at the helm at the time of the collision.

On This Day in 1951, the Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier, HMS UNICORN, crossed the 38th parrallel on the Korean west coast to shell North Korean positions making her the first and only British Carrier to carry out a shore bombardment with her own main armament.

 

The school ship Copenhagen belonging to EAC, was a five-masted bark (with a B&W diesel engine 508 HP as an auxiliary engine) launched in 1921, and was the world's largest sailing ship.

 

View from USS North Carolina's aft Turret as she launches a Kingfisher spotting plane, August 1941.

 

Salisbury Class Frigates HMS Llandaff & HMS Chichester at HM Naval Base Singapore, 1966.

 

Philadelphia Navy Yard. USS Blandy (DD-943), USS Davis (DD-937), USS Forrest Sherman (DD-931) and USS Manley (DD-940). Partial view of the ship to the left is the USNS Lake (T-AK 5017).

 

Oct.1975: SEATO group in Sembawang Basin, Singapore.

 In the foreground is the RAN Oberon Class submarine, HMAS OXLEY.

On the left are the RN Rothesay Type 12 frigates HMS PLYMOUTH and HMS BERWICK, with the former frigate and Oceanographic research vessel HMAS DIAMANTINA next to the tug beside them.

Astern of those on the left are the DDGs HMASs HOBART and BRISBANE. Behind those the fleet oiler HMAS SUPPLY and the Type 12 frigate HMAS TORRENS.

On the right are the Daring Class destroyers HMASs VENDETTA and VAMPIRE, with the RN frigate HMS AJAX inboard of them, the ship with an Ikara missile installation on the foredeck.

USS Arizona in column formation with other battleships of the Pacific Fleet.

 

On This Day in 1976, Minesweeper HMS FITTLETON sank following a collision with the Frigate HMS MERMAID in the North Sea. 12 men died including 10 RNReserve.

HMS Fittleton was sunk in a collision with HMS Mermaid whilst on manoeuvres in the North Sea. Twelve volunteer Royal Naval Reserve personnel lost their lives.

HMS Fittleton was a Ton class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. She was assigned to the Royal Naval Reserve and operated from HMS Sussex, but manned by members of both the Sussex division and the London division (HMS President). She was sunk in a collision with HMS Mermaid on 20 September 1976 whilst on manoeuvres in the North Sea. Twelve volunteer Royal Naval Reserve personnel lost their lives making this the worst peacetime accident involving the Royal Naval Reserve.

On This Day in 1998 the last of Royal Navy Trident SSBN submarines, HMS VENGEANCE, was rolled out of the Devonshire Dock Hall at Barrow. She and her sisters will be replaced by the DREADNOUGHTS in next decade.

 

Bow and Stern blown off, British Cruiser is refitted by U.S. Shipyard, July 23, 1945. Thanks to the gallantry of her officers, men, and the skilled workers at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the British cruiser Argonaut has joined the mighty Allied armada battering the Japs [sic] in the Pacific. Torpedoed by a Nazi U-Boat in the Mediterranean in 1943, the cruiser had both her bow and stern ripped off. Berlin boasted the cruiser had been sunk. Under her own power the Argonaut crawled across the Atlantic to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, There American experts sliced away dead sections, grafted on a new bow and stern, made other repairs, and in the end reconstructing more than a third of the ship's length. The Herculean task was completed rapidly despite the fact that the replacements had to be of British design. Another link in Anglo-American unity was cemented with the Argonaut returned to the wars - bearing a ‘bit of the States" in her bow and stern as she moves against the foe.

 

USS Franklin (CV-13), showing the wrecked flight deck, enters New York Harbour after her return from the Pacific for repairs.

Finnish coastal defence ship "Väinämöinen" 1941-1944. 1941-1944.

 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. She was built at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku and was launched in 1932. Following the end of the Continuation War, Väinämöinen was handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparations and renamed Vyborg. The ship remained in Soviet hands until her scrapping in 1966.

On This Day in 1939, HMS COURAGEOUS is sunk off Ireland by U-29 with the loss of 519 RoyalNavy sailors, only 2 weeks after leaving HMNBDevonport for her patrol. She was the first of 5 Fleet Carriers lost in WWII.