The keel for the future USNS Earl Warren (T-AO 207), the Navy’s 3rd John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler, was laid at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO).

 

D20 HMS Fife, Summer of 1965, with Carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Bulwark and HMS Hermes. Taken between 1966 and ’68, HMS Fife sits alongside in the foreground, HMS Leviathan in the basin, HMS Centaur at the dockside and, in the distance, HMS Victorious at the wharf. As is usual for the period, what appears as grandeur tells a saddening tale. For a start, the brilliantly named HMS Leviathan was launched in 1945 and never completed. HMS Centaur was already decommissioned and the same may also be said of HMS Victorious, being decommissioned in March of ‘68. By 1973 nothing remained of the three carriers and no replacements followed.

 

HMAS Melbourne docked alongside USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) during RIMPAC '78.

 

The armoured cruiser USS Tennessee and the sailing frigate USS Constitution at the Boston Shipyard in 1907.

 

On this day in 1966, HMS Ulster received the 25 ton entire stern section of her sister URCHIN in dock HMNB Devonport. The amazing engineering task which included machinery & steering gear took only 2 hours! ULSTER was ready to sail soon after.

 

HMS Protector arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia yesterday. HMS Protector is one the newest additions to the Fleet, an impressive and incredibly versatile survey and ice patrol ship preparing for her first deployment. The ship is on loan to the Navy to plug the gap until the fate of Britain’s long-serving Antarctic patrol ship, HMS Endurance, is decided following her near-sinking in late 2008. Protector began life as the MV Polarbjørn (Polar Bear), a Norwegian icebreaker and polar research vessel which has shown her flexibility by also acting as a support vessel for an oil platform in the Caribbean. Now she’s been fitted with an echo sounder and a temporary flight deck and will receive other specialist equipment over the summer to turn her into a Royal Navy vessel.

 

Royal Navy sloop HMS 'Torch' and armoured cruiser HMS 'Euryalus', Farm Cove, Sydney, 1904-1905.

 

The 6th Frigate Squardon, Far East, 1978, HMS Brighton F106, HMD Ashanti F117, HMS Naiad F39, and HMS Sirius F40 (Capt. F6).

 

SS Kronprinz Wilhelm. German liner used as a raider during WW1. She sunk 16 ships without the loss of a single life. Shown during her US internment in 1916. Later taken over by the USN & renamed USS Von Stueben & used as a troopship.

 

USS Sioux City Arrives in Bahrain during Historic Deployment. MANAMA, Bahrain - USS Sioux City (LCS 11) arrived to Bahrain for a scheduled port visit, June 25, marking the completion of a 10,000-mile journey while becoming the first littoral combat ship to operate in the Middle East.

 

Propeller and stern of SS Titanic.

 

The hatches of the 12 vertical-launch Tomahawk missile tubes stand open on the bow of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS OKLAHOMA CITY (SSN-723).

 

Daring Class Destroyer, HMS Defender, is now out of the basin, alongside on Victory Jetty astern of HMS Prince of Wales today.

 

HMS Triumph doing pre wetting exercise in 1964 after she was converted to a heavy repair ship.

 

HMS Triumph in Singapore, 1965 with HMS Loch Killisport, HMS Zest, HMS Triumph, HMS Whitby and HMS Lincoln. With HMS Eagle astern and HMS Bulwark.

 

The medium displacement unmanned vessel Sea Hunter transits the Pacific Ocean to participate in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022.

 

On this day in 1961, the first Leander Class Frigate, HMS Leander was launched at Harland & Wolff,Belfast. The class of 26 were a huge success and would serve the Royal Navy until the 1990s. The last British Leander was still in service with Indian navy until 2012.

 My 4th ship 1963.

Alfredo Cappellini was an Italian monitor converted from the floating crane GA53 during World War I. She bombarded Austro-Hungarian positions during the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo in 1917 before she was wrecked off Ancona on 16 November 1917.

 

HMS Duncan, USS Theodore Roosevelt and Arleigh-Burke class destroyers.

 

On this day in 1978 the Royal Navy ceased steam catapult launches from Aircraft Carriers, when the last ever Plane, an F4K Phantom was launched from HMS ARK ROYAL. A few hours earlier the last Buccaneer was launched too. Buccaneer and Phantom.

 

The world's largest carrier (USS Truman) and the world's largest cruise ship (Wonder of the Seas) together in Marseille, France

 

Royal Navy warships alongside NATO allies have shown the alliance’s staunch commitment to Baltic security during the largest military exercises in the region this year. Portsmouth-based Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender provided the firepower and leading-edge technology, while six of the smallest craft in the Royal Navy’s inventory – HMS Archer, Charger, Explorer, Exploit, Ranger and Smiter – provided the speed, agility and numbers to swarm around participants in BALTOPS 22, which involved 47 warships from 16 nations, including Sweden and Finland.

 

The destroyer escort that fought like a battleship has been found! Ocean explorer and former U.S. Navy officer, Victor Vescovo has found the wreck of USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413), a destroyer escort sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf Japanese gunfire off Samar - 89 of her crew were lost with the ship.

 

HMS Northumberland. Just this year alone, we have steamed over 20,000 miles across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, North Sea, Arctic, Baltic and Gulf of Finland while working alongside our NATO allies and JEF partners. Thank you to all our families and friends for their support.

 

Dive survey on HMS Bronington in Birkenhead docks today - first stage in efforts to preserve her.

 

Aerial view of the piers at NAS Alameda, circa early July 1969. Ships present include from front to back: USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Markab (AR-23) with USS Pictor (AF-54) outboard, and USS Procyon (AF-61) forward of them, and USS Coral Sea (CVA-43)

 

Coastal Forces Squadron P2000s in Germany for Kiel Week after working with NATO allies during BLTOPS22. HMS Ranger, HMS Charger, HMS Exploit, HMS Smiter, HMS Archer and HMS Explorer.

 

The wreck of the paddle steamer SS Devonia lost while evacuating British troops during Operation Dynamo in May 1940, one of the Dunkirk ‘Little Ships’.

 

Early 1945 photo of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard shows (from left to right) USS Niobrara, USS Wilkes-Barre, USS South Dakota, and a nearly completed USS Princeton being dwarfed in height by the massive 350 ton League Island Crane, at that time the largest in the world.

 

On this day 2011, the Royal Navy Ice Patrol Ship, HMS Protector was commissioned. Initially on a lease from her Norwegian owners, the RN purchased her in 2013 for £51M when it became obvious that HMS Endurance would not return to service.