The Solomon Islands (Commonwealth nation) recently signed a 'security pact' with China. USCG Oliver Henry refused permission to dock and UK withdrew application for HMS Spey to visit.

https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Solomon-Islands-ask-navies-not-to-send-warships-17409090.php

 

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CV-15), with repair ship USS Jason (ARH-1) alongside, showing damage to her after-flight deck resulting from a kamikaze hit. 25 crewmen were lost in this attack, with 106 wounded. March 11, 1945. Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945, showing damage to her aft flight deck resulting from a kamikaze hit.

 

79 years ago, HMCS Haida would be commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy. Throughout her service from the shores of Europe to the waters off Korea, she would eventually be known as the 'Fightingest Ship in the Royal Canadian Navy'.

 

An old Finnish Navy Turunmaa-class gunboat named Karjala, close to the Turku harbour.

 

5th Astute class submarine, HMS Anson due to commissioned in Barrow BAES Maritime this week.

 

USS George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group transits the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea.

 

On this day in 1945, the Royal Navy entered harbour in Hong Kong to liberate the territory from the Japanese. 500 men were landed from HMS Swiftsure and HMS Euraylus to clear the dockyard. The photo is of HMS Indomitable shortly after.

 

The decommissioned Spruance-class destroyer ex-USS Paul F. Foster (EDD 964), in 2011, conducting a successful demonstration of shipboard alternative fuel use while underway in the Pacific Ocean on a 50-50 blend of an algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76. Paul F. Foster had been reconfigured as the Self-Defense Test Ship to provide the Navy an at-sea, remotely controlled, engineering test and evaluation platform without the risk to personnel or operational assets.

 

HMS Tyne is a River-class offshore patrol vessel built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton for the Royal Navy to serve as a fishery protection unit within the United Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships Mersey and Severn.

 

HMS Nelson in February of 1931 during her transit of the Panama Canal. The United States flag in the foreground is mounted on the stern of USS Texas (BB-35). Awnings have been rigged to provide shelter from the brutal Panamanian sun (well, brutal for your average Englishman anyway). Royal Navy ships at this time had either minimal or no air conditioning.

 

Wallabout Bay in 2019, was hosting a pair of ships, Cape Avinof (AK 5013) and Cape Ann (AK 5009), that harken back to the days of the New York Naval Shipyard, as a pair of mothballed ships from the James River National Defense Reserve Fleet.

 

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Loch Killisport (F628) and the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Galveston (CLG-3) at Hong Kong, in January 1964.

 

USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville conducting FONOP - have sailed through the Taiwan Strait.

 

Royal Navy’s Westlant 22 deployment begins.

 

OnThisDay 1969, the Submarine, HMS Conquerer was launched at Cammell Laird, the last Nuclear boat to be built at the Birkenhead Yard. She served the RN for 19 years, famously sinking the Belgrano during Falklands 40. Paid off in 1990 she currently awaits disposal in Devonport.

 

SAN DIEGO. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returned to Naval Base San Diego, following a seven-month deployment to U.S. 3rd, 5th and 7th Fleets

 

HMS Portland. Returning to Devonport this yesterday after completing several months on operations as Fleet Ready Escort.

 

Vanguard class submarine outbound from Faslane yesterday evening with dolphin escort.

 

USNS William McLean sailed from Devonport yesterday evening.

 

HMS Rodney and the Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak can bee seen tied up, as viewed from the flat top flight deck of the fleet aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth Dockyard, 1938.

 

Russian monitor Novgorod was built as a costal defense vessel and served well in that role until 1903.

 

On December 10, 1941, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse and battleship HMS Prince of Wales sank off the east coast of Malaysia. The British warships were the central elements of Force Z, tasked with intercepting a Japanese invasion fleet.

 

HMAS Supply conducts replenishment at sea with US Navy cruiser USS Mobile Bay during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022.

 

The Ton class were coastal minesweepers built in the 1950s for the Royal Navy, but also used by other navies such as the South African Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. They were intended to meet the threat of seabed mines laid in shallow coastal waters, rivers, ports and harbours, a task for which the existing ocean-going minesweepers of the Algerine-class were not suited. The design of the class drew on lessons learnt in the Second World War when it became apparent that minelaying in coastal waters was more effective than in the deep sea; the existing fleet minesweepers were not well suited to deal with this threat. Design started at the Naval Construction Department in Bath in 1947 and the first ship was ordered in September 1950; the class eventually numbered 119 vessels. The Ton-class served as patrol vessels in Borneo, Malaysia, Northern Ireland and Hong Kong. The minehunters played a significant role in the Suez Canal clearance after the Yom Kippur war. They also provided the backbone of the UK's Fishery Protection Squadron

 

A Sting Ray lightweight torpedo is launched from a Type 23 frigate.

 

USS Essex (CVA-9) took spray over the bow while steaming in heavy seas, 12 January 1960.

 

HMS Vernon, showing the former HMS Marlborough (131), HMS Warrior (40), and HMS Donegal (101) as Vernon II, Vernon III, and Vernon I respectively. The original HMS Vernon, torpedo school.

https://www.vernonlink.uk/hms-vernon 

From 2003, Task Force 51 (CTF 51). USS Tarawa (LHA 1), the ships in the second row from bottom to top are USS Saipan (LHA 2) and USS Kearsarge (LHD 3); and the third row of ships are USS Boxer (LHD 4), USS Bataan (LHD 5) and USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).

 

The Finnish Navy, 14m JURMO class LCPs can transport up to 25 equipped soldiers at a speed of 30kts.

 

HMS Barrosa steaming over triangular pattern formed by her Squid projectiles. Double Squid mortars can be seen at the end of the after deckhouse.

 

USS Kearsarge arriving in Lithuania.

 

HMS Tamar took part in a mass casualty exercise in Palawan, Philippines with Philippine Coastguard and US personnel based on hospital ship USNS Mercy.

 

The Argentinian tall ship ARA Libertad being escorted by the County-Class Destroyer HMS Fife through the English Channel in 1968.

 

Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group. The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) arrived in Klaipėda, Lithuania, while San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) and Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) entered port in Riga, Latvia, and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) arrived in Tallinn, Estonia.

 

An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46, lands on the flight deck of the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) in the Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 16 2022. Part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (CSG)

 

After a maintenance period and main summer leave in Rosyth, HMS Somerset returns to sea after a period of drydocking and problems.