HMS Queen Elizabeth operating alongside the Omani Navy's Flagship Shabab Oman II.

 

HMS Kent.

HMS Kent watches on as the frigate is joined by a host of ships from allied nations and partners.
The group, including vessels from the US, the Netherlands, Canada and Japan, sailed together in the Pacific Ocean.
She rejoined the fleet after some RNR in Guam.

 

USS Macron (ZRS-5)

 USS Macon (ZRS-5) headed back to the nest (Hangar One), NAS Moffett Field. Circa 1933-35 before Macon's unfortunate loss off the coast of Big Sur in February, 1935.

Coast Guard Cutter 16, an 83-foot wooden patrol boat assigned to Coast Guard Rescue Flotilla One, sits out of the water in Poole, England, in 1944. On D-Day, the crew of CGC-16 saved the lives of 126 Allied troops, more lives than any other vessel present that day.

 

The Type 23 frigate is deployed east of Suez for three years as part of the Navy’s new Forward Presence programme which ensures vessels spend more time at sea in an operational theatre. Babcock International and ASYAD joint venture Drydock Duqm Naval Dockyard (DND) has completed a double engine replacement for the UK Royal Navy’s Type 23 Duke-class frigate, HMS Montrose. It is said to be first-of-its-kind activity completed by DND for the Royal Navy in the Middle East. Image of HMS Montrose, seen here carrying out protection duties for British shipping in the Gulf region. HMS MONTROSE is currently carrying out duties patrolling the Gulf, keeping the shipping lanes safe and ensuring that international trade is not threatened. In the first two months on patrol in 2019 HMS MONTROSE safeguarded over 6 million tonnes of British Shipping. HMS MONTROSE is a type 23 frigate originally based in Plymouth and is the Royal Navy’s forward operating ship based out in the Gulf for the upcoming years and works on a watch rotation basis. Every 4 months the port and starboard crew rotate. The Starboard crew of HMS MONTROSE is made up from sailors from HMS MONMOUTH

 

Clearing the scuttled German fleet in Scapa Flow, Scotland, carried on well into the 1930's.

 

HNLMS Gelderland (D811) was a destroyer of the Holland class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1955 to 1973. In 1973 the ship was taken out of service, after which it was given a berth in Amsterdam for Technical Training. The ship was sold for scrapping in 1988.

 

On April 11, 1897, USS Oregon docks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton. She is the first battleship to be docked there.

 The vessel was an 11,688-ton Indiana class battleship, built in San Francisco, and commissioned in July 1896. She was ordered to steam around Latin American to participate in the Cuban part of the Spanish American War. She played an important role in the Battle of Santiago in July 1898.

The battleship guarded the Pacific Coast during World War I, and was decommissioned in 1919.

1. Puget Sound Navy Yard's dry dock 2 in 1912. This photo of USS Oregon was taken shortly before she pulled into the drydock in Bremerton.
   Cruisers USS Colorado, USS PennsylvaniA and USS Charleston behind.

Today 40 years ago the Russian sub S-363 ran aground near the Swedish naval base in Karlskrona sparking an international incident.

 

HMS Flirt.

On This Day in 1916 the Royal Navy destroyer, HMS FLIRT was sunk by German destroyers as she was assisting another vessel.

On the night of 26/27 October 1916 the German Navy raided the Dover Barrage with two and a half flotillas of torpedo boats and destroyers. Flirt under the command of Lieutenant R. P. Kellett responded to gunfire from the drifter line. She found the drifter Waveney II on fire and sent a boat to assist. When unidentified ships approached she issued a challenge and was immediately fired upon by the Germans. Flirt was lost; the only survivors were those dispatched to aid Waveney II.

HMS Flirt was a Palmer three funnel, 30 knot destroyer.

She was awarded the battle honour "Belgian Coast 1914 – 15" for her service.

 

 

Casa Grande in her various disguises.

1. USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) at Hampton Roads 1951.

2. USS Casa Grande discharging LCU-1491 from her well deck, circa 1957

3. As HMS Oceanway.

4.Surcouf-class AAW destroyer Cassard moored alongside the Casa Grande-class LSD (ex HMS Oceanway and HS Okeanos), 1960.

5. Overhead view.

HMS Hood outbound from Plymouth Sound, watched over by Sunderland RB11. 1941.

 

USS Texas (BB-35) under construction in Dry Dock No. 3 at Norfolk Navy Yard, on April 9, 1913.

 

First Crewmembers Join Lead Type 26 HMS Glasgow.

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Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan leads part of the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group in the Persian Gulf, 2015. The destroyer spent 9 months with the group, operating on the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

 

On This Day in1941, the Minelayer HMS LATONA was sunk after an attack by German aircraft off Libya. She was supporting the Garrison at Tobruk and was carrying 1,000 Polish Troops. Escorting ships evacuated most but 27 crew and soldiers lost their lives.

 "10/25/1941 German dive bombers sunk the high-speed minelayer HMS Latona.

From August to October, this ship made voyages to the blocked Tobruk, delivering troops there and taking out replaced units and wounded.

"On October 25, Latona took on board 1,000 Polish soldiers and officers and, accompanied by the destroyers HMS Hirow , HMS Encounter and HMS Hotspur, embarked on her fourth voyage in a month. Soon air raids began, which lasted all day and evening.At about 8 pm, when the detachment was 30 miles north of Bardia and moved in a 26-knot route to the west, it was attacked by a group of aircraft, including ten Ju-87 dive bombers."

Woodrow Wilson's return from the Paris Peace Conference: unidentified cruiser in Boston Harbour upon Wilson's arrival, February 24, 1919. Possibly USS Houston CA-30.

 

The 2019 built Golden Horizon cruise ship, 'Flying Clipper', is scheduled to sail in the Mediterranean in 2022.

 

Soviet Lun-class ekranoplane which could fly just above waves at jet-plane speeds avoiding anti-ship mines and evading radar. Although it might look like an aircraft ,it is classified as maritime ship.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Kent and JS Ise after recent exercise.

 

Crewmen of USS Texas (BB-35) mooring the ship to pier 7 in the Norfolk Navy Yard, on August 18, 1938.

 

The USS Carl Vinson and her escorts as seen from the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Philippine Sea.

 

Japanese Battleship Nagato.

Built in 1920, the Nagato was a revolutionary innovation in the field of 'battleship' for its time. It was the first class of a battleship with 406mm guns, eight of which were on board. In addition, the ship had twenty 140mm guns, four 79mm anti-aircraft guns, and eight 533mm torpedo tubes. The hull armor ranged from 102mm to 305mm in thickness, the deck was 38 to 75mm thick, and the turret and conning tower armor was 305mm thick. The end of the Nagato came after an atomic test at Bikini on July 29, 1946, when it sank five days later through all the leaks to the seabed. Its sister ship, Mutsu , had already been wrecked in June 1943 after an explosion in a warehouse.

USS The Sullivans conducts a sailpast of HMS Queen Elizabeth yesterday before departing CSG21 to commence their transit home

 

HMS Glasgow, being built on the Clyde, is the first of eight Type 26 Frigates being built for the Royal Navy.