Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth cruise cancelled due to Storm Arwen.

 

Mk 10 missile launcher aboard USS Harry E. Yarnell - Norfolk, Virginia - 1989

 

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) departed the Black Sea, arriving in Istanbul, Turkey for a scheduled port visit, on Nov. 16. USS Porter is currently on her 10th patrol in the Sixth Fleet area of operations.

 

Type 23 Frigates to receive surveillance drones.

The Royal Navy has awarded BAE Systems a contract to integrate the Flexible Tactical Uncrewed Aerial System (FTUAS) into the Type-23 frigate’s Combat Management System.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-23-frigates-to-receive-surveillance-drones/

Today in 1944, the last and largest Royal Navy battleship, and the last battleship in the world to be launched, HMS VANGUARD was launched in Clydebank, Scotland, by the then Princess Elizabeth. She was over 50,000 Tonnes at full load and capable of over 30 Knots. The end of an era.

 

USS Bass (SF-5/ SS-164).

A Barracuda-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bass. Her keel was laid at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched as V-2 (SF-5) on 27 December 1924. Like her sisters, Bass was designed to meet the fleet submarine requirement of 21 knots (39 km/h) surface speed for operating with contemporary battleships. While at sea on 17 August 1942, a fire broke out in the after battery room and quickly spread to the aft torpedo room and starboard main electric motor, resulting in the death of 26 enlisted men by asphyxiation. She was converted to a cargo submarine with the removal of her main engines, severely restricting her speed on the remaining auxiliary engines. Bass was decommissioned at the Naval Submarine Base New London on 3 March 1945 and expended as a target for the Mark 24 Fido "mine" (actually an acoustic homing torpedo) on 12 March 1945.

King George V-class battleship, HMS Howe cruises off Rangitoto Island, New Zealand, February 1945.

On 8 August 1944, Howe arrived at Trincomalee in Ceylon to join the Eastern Fleet. She was the first modern British battleship to be deployed in eastern waters since the loss of Prince of Wales in December 1941. Howe was put into action quickly, providing cover for carrier based air operations against targets in Sumatra. In December she moved to Sydney, where she sailed to Auckland, New Zealand, for a flag-waving visit. In February 1945, Howe and King George V sailed from Sydney to begin operations in earnest in the Pacific theatre; together with four carriers, five cruisers and fifteen destroyers, they made up Task Force 113. The first major undertaking for Task Force 113 (now redesignated TF.57) was Operation Iceberg-offshore support for the US landings at Okinawa-which got under way on 1 April 1945. The force was subjected to sporadic Japanese kamikaze attacks, but the two ships emerged unscathed from these actions. Howe's anti-aircraft batteries also succeeded in shooting down an attacking kamikaze plane. The two ships' principal roles were air defence and land bombardment, the latter being carried out very accurately, particularly by Howe against anti-aircraft installations on the island of Miyako, half way between Okinawa and Formosa.

 

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

 

On This Day 50 years ago, in 1971, the Tribal Class frigate, HMS ZULU suffered a fire leaving her without power off the coast of East Africa. 3 Royal Navy patrol ships returning from Hong Kong to the UK, arrived 2 days later to help ZULU to Dakar for repairs.

 

1978 HMS Ark Royal.

On this day in 1978, The Royal Navy ceased steam catapult launches from aircfaft carriers, when the last

ever plane, an F4K Phntom was launched from HMS Ark Royal.

A few hours erlier the last Buccaneer was launched as well.

HMS BRONINGTON, the former Royal Navy Minesweeper lies neglected in Birkenhead dock, once commanded by our future King, HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales. In an increasingly derelict state since she was abandoned when the Historic Warships collection, of which she was part, was disbanded in 2006.

https://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/19579448.plans-drawn-save-historic-warship-hms-bronington-birkenhead-dock/ 

End of WW2, Mare Island.

52 Gato and Balao-class submarines at Mare Island Navy Yard California January 1946.

Names of all 52 submarines and 4 submarine tenders.                                                                    

Gato class: 77 Built - Sunk or wrecked: 20 - Museums: 6.                                                              Balao class: 120 Built - Sunk or wrecked: 11- Museums: 8.

A FAA Merlin landing on RFA Fort Victoria during operations in the central Mediterranean - seen from RFA Tidesurge carrying out fleet supply with UKCSG21.

 

On This Day in 1913, one of the most famous Royal Navy Dreadnought Battleships, HMS WARSPITE was launched at HMNB Devonport. Her amazing service over both World Wars won her more battle honours than any RN ship. Including: Jutland, Walcheren, Crete, Matapan, Calabria and more.

 

Strait of Hormuz.

More than 200 ships a month, some carrying oil, gas, cars, food and consumer goods, have been escorted through Middle Eastern hotspots, by HMS Montrose.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/royal-navy-escorting-200-ships-a-month-through-middle-east/

The Norwegian Navy Frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad completed her final voyage Monday 8. February 2021 from Ågotnes to Hanøytangen to be scrapped.

On This Day IN 1941 Battleship HMS BARHAM was struck by 3 torpedoes from U-331 in the Mediterranean. She capsized to port & sinks within 4 mins after a massive explosion. 862 men were killed from a ships company of over 1200.

                                                          Click on link for video.                                                                                                   https://youtu.be/Vbt_WXCLm8A   

  

USCG. SIx-Bitters tied up at Base 7 in Gloucester, 1926.

The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 75-foot patrol boats (also called "Six-Bitters") were built during Prohibition to help interdict alcohol smugglers ("rum runners"). Their nickname was derived from the slang term "six bits" meaning 75 U.S. cents.

USS Utah BB-31 at Charlestown Navy Yard - 1923 with barge full of 12” & 5” projectiles for her 12”/45 and 5”/51 guns.

 

The wreck of Russian Riga class frigate SKR-72, decommissioned in 1994 and beached at the mouth of the Yokanga river north of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk.

 

Naval Base Norfolk.

The U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers (from left to right) USS Coontz (DDG-40), USS King (DDG-41), and USS Farragut (DDG-37) docked at the destroyer and submarine piers of Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia (USA), in 1988. In the background are the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) and the masts of at least four Spruance-class destroyers.

HMS Renown and HMS Illustrious in Trincomalee Harbour, Ceylon in early 1944.

 

Rauma Class Fast Attack Crafts The newly refurbished Rauma Class Fast Attack Crafts (FACs) are in service with the Finnish Navy. Four vessels were built by Hollming yards and Finnyards (now STX Finland) between 1990 and 1992. The Rauma Class is succeeded by Hamina Class missile boats.

 

In drydock near Seattle, 2 Ticonderoga-class-cruisers ? surrounding LCS-10 USS Gabrielle Giffords in the middle.

 

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

German Type VIIB submarine, U-83, under attack in the Mediterranean, 80 miles North-east of Oran, Algeria, from a Lockheed Hudson of No. 500 Squadron RAF based at Blida. Three 100-lb AS bombs are seen exploding short of the target after the first attack run. The Hudson then dropped three 150-lb depth charges on the U-83 from 75 feet and the submarine sank.

Boston-class protected cruiser USS Atlanta in Boston harbour, August 1890, with bluejackets on her yardarms during the Eastern Yacht Club Regatta.

 

HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the Minotaur-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy. Launched in 1906, she served as the flagship of the China Station before the First World War. Decommissioned and paid off 1919.

 

On The 18th November, 1800, HMS LEDA is launched at Chatham. She was the first of the largest class of sailing frigates ever built for the Royal Navy, with 47 built. Although LEDA was lost in 1808, 2 of her sisters survive today to visit. HMS Trincomalee In Hartlepool and HMS Unicorn in Dundee.

 

HMS Eagle, HMS Bulwark and HMS Albion on duty in the eastern Mediterranean during the Suez crisis, 1956.

 

KNM Alta from a maintenance stay on Fagerstrand back to its place at Akershus Fortress October 16th. KNM Alta is a minesweeper vessel in the Sauda class that was operational in the Norwegian Navy from 1966 to 1996 and is part of the Defense Museum.

 

Battleship HMS Valiant launched from the Fairfield yard in Glasgow on November 4th 1914, on floaing dry dock around 1919 in Invergorden.

 

USS Atlanta, at New York Navy Yard,1886.

 

USS Oklahoma holystone the deck 1919.

 

Building a cruise liner.

Dry dock construction hangar of the large luxury cruise ship Anthem of the Seas.   Monstrous!

 

Ryūjō was a light aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the early 1930s. Small and lightly built in an attempt to exploit a loophole in the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, she proved to be top-heavy and only marginally stable and was back in the shipyard for modifications to address those issues within a year of completion

 

HMS Defender, HMCS Winnipeg, HNLMS Evertsen and RFA Tidespring. Part of the CSG21 Strike group.

 

One of Project 633 class (known in the West by its NATO reporting name as the Romeo class) is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built between 1957 and 1961. Arriving in Balaklava for Museum Duty.

 

An aerial view of the first U.S. Navy battleship battle group to deploy to the Western Pacific since the Korean War underway with Australian ships during a training exercise. The ships are, clockwise from left: USS Long Beach (CGN-9), USS Merrill (DD-976), HMAS Swan (DE 50), HMAS Stuart (DE 48), HMAS Parramatta (DE 46), USNS Passumpsic (T-AO-107), USS Wabash (AOR-5), HMAS Derwent (DE 49), USS Kirk (FF-1087), USS Thach (FFG-43), HMAS Hobart (D 39) and USS New Jersey (BB-62), center.