French Rubis class submarine on murky Loch Long this afternoon. En route to HMNB Clyde., Faslane.

 

Porter class destroyer USS McDougal alongside HMS Prince of Wales during Atlantic Charter Conference, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Aug 1941.

 

USS Essex (CV-9), destroyer USS Hailey (DD-556) refuels from an unidentified ship, with USS Hornet (CV-12) in the middle distance and USS Enterprise (CV-6) in the background.

 

HII has conducted a sea launching activity for a newly built U.S. Coast Guard Legend-class national security cutter from its Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi , this month.

 

HMS Ark Royal listing to starboard after being struck by a torpedo from U-81.

 

RMS Mauretania just after her launch.

 

Battleship USS Iowa and carrier USS Shangri-La refueling from oiler USS Cahaba, 8 Jul 1945.

 

HMS Tamar and HMS Spey, now alongside together in Sembawang, Singapore.

 

A V-2 rocket is loaded onto USS Midway for Operation Sandy and Pushover on September 6, 1947. USS Massachusetts is in the background.

 

Wreck of HMS Urge was finally located in 2019. Sunk by a mine off Malta in April 1942 with loss of all hands. New memorial at Fort St Elmo, facing out to sea in the direction of the remains of the submarine has been unveiled.

 

HMS Severn Inbound to Devonport this morning. Passing HMS Northumberland, at anchor with RFA Cardigan Bay at buoy in Plymouth Sound.

 

USNS Robert E. Peary heading up a very calm Firth of Clyde this morning. And arriving at Hunterston Terminal.

 

Type 22 guided missile frigates, HMS Cumberland and HMS Cornwall.

 

L to R. USS DEYO (DD-989) and USS NICHOLSON (DD-982), the guided missile destroyer USS SEMMES (DDG-18), the destroyer USS JOHN RODGERS (DD-983), the destroyer tender USS SIERRA (AD-18) and the submarine tender USS FRANK CABLE (AS-40). Naval Base, Charleston

 

Type 45 destroyers HMS Daring and HMS Diamond loom over Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester, Portsmouth Naval Base, April 2011

 

HMS Renown arrival in Portsmouth following the Royal Visit to India, 1905-6 : The return of the Prince and Princess of Wales from the Royal Tour of India 1905-6

 

The Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall, pulls away from the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Robert E. Peary, and the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, USS Kearsarge during replenishment. Atlantic Ocean this week.

 

HMS Montrose replenishes from USNS Charles Drew while on operations in the Middle East.

 

USS Texas in dry dock at the Todd Shipyards in Galveston during her 1988-1990 refit, the shipyard will close a year later.

 

HMS Defiance, the last wooden line-of-battle ship launched for the Royal Navy, was launched on 27 March 1861. Given that wooden line-of-battle ships were effectively obsolete by the time she was fully completed, Defiance became a torpedo and mining schoolship early in her career. She was then sold to Castle's Shipbreaking Yard for breaking up in 1931. She was poignantly described as "the last of England's "Wooden Walls."

 

Future USS John Basilone (DDG-122) and USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) at Bath Iron Works.

 

HMS Trent operating her Wildcat.

 

HMS Northumberland heading up the Firth of Forth on return from deployment in the Arctic and Baltic Sea.

 

1. On April 26, 1952 USS Wasp collided with destroyer minesweeper Hobson (DMS-26) while conducting night flight operations in the Atlantic, en route to Gibraltar. Hobson was cut in two and sank. 2.USS Wasp (CVA 18) entering New York Harbour on 6 May 1952 after her collision with USS Hobson (DMS 26) on 26 April 1952.

 

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has decommissioned Armidale Class Patrol Boat, HMAS Maitland at a ceremony at HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin, following 16 years of service.

 

V-22 Osprey & Ohio class SSGN, probably USS Georgia (SSGN-729).

 

USS Indiana, an American Virginia class nuclear submarine, is visiting HMNB Clyde at Faslane, near Glasgow.

The guided missile destroyer USS FARRAGUT (DDG-37), foreground, stands moored to a pier as the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CV-43) departs from Portsmouth after being overhauled at Norfolk Navy Shipyard. 01/01/1985.

 

Royal Netherlands Navy, HNLMS Tromp and RFA Fort Victoria.

 

HMS Daring had her hull opened up for replacement of old diesel generator as she begins Power Improvement Package (PIP) in dry dock at Cammell Laird, (Forward machinery room, port side on 5 deck).

 

Irish naval service vessel, LÉ George Bernard Shaw arrived in Glasgow this week, the visit by the Offshore Patrol Vessel is the first Irish naval visit to Scotland for over 10 years.

 

On this day 20 years ago, the Multi Role Survey Vessel HMS Enterprise was launched at Appledore, Devon. The HMNB Devonport based ship with her sister HMS_Echo have proven to be one of the most versatile units in the Fleet and have been used in multiple roles.

 

Crew muster of USS Shangri La. CV-38. No date or any info?

 

U-848 (German Submarine, type IXD2) Attacked and sunk by VB-107 PB4Y's of squadron VB-107 and two B-25's, southwest of Ascension Island, 5 November 1943. She would go down with all hands after 7 hours of fight.

 

USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), returned to Naval Station Mayport following a three-month deployment.

 

USS Anzio looking worse for wear, Naval Station Norfolk, April 7, 2022.

 

On this day in 1971, the first of 8 Royal Navy Type 21 Frigates, HMS AMAZON, was launched. She served until 1993 when she was sold to Pakistan Navy serving as PNS Babur until 2015. RFA Bayleaf, tanker, astern.

 

HMS Ambush visits Grotsund near Tromsø to familiarise the Royal Navy with new facilities to sustain NATO submarines in the Arctic.

 

USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115) before the christening ceremony at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine on Oct. 31, 2015.

 

The Tiger class were a class of three British warships of the 20th century and the last all-gun cruisers of the Royal Navy. Construction as Minotaur-class cruisers began during World War II but due to post-war austerity, the Korean War and Churchill favouring nuclear weapons and aircraft over the surface fleet, the hulls remained unfinished. Approval to complete them to a modified design was given in November 1954 and the three ships - Tiger, Lion and Blake entered service from March 1959. In 1964 two of the Tigers were converted into helicopter-carrying cruisers, first carrying four Westland Wessex helicopters for amphibious operations then four Westland Sea Kings for anti-submarine work. The conversion of Blake and Tiger, carried out between 1965 and 1972, was more expensive than expected and so the conversion of Lion was cancelled and she was scrapped in 1975, having been used for spares for her sister ships. Often described and viewed in the Royal Navy as "hideous and useless hybrids", and with limited manpower, resources, and better ships available Tiger and Blake were decommissioned in the late 1970s and placed in reserve. Blake was scrapped in 1982 and Tiger in 1986.

 

Both aircraft carriers alongside today HMS QNLZ and HMS PWLS. HMS Warrior and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in the foreground