HMS Glasgow on submergible barge being towed down the Clyde on her way to Glen Mallan, this afternoon.

 

HMS Richmond, Plymouth UK.

 

JMSDF Destroyers. Asagiri-class destroyers (front two bottom right) Murasame-class destroyers (second row, on the right) Takanami-class destroyers (back row) Atago-class destroyers (back two top right). The ship in the top left is the JS Asuka (ASE-6102) which is an experiment ship, new technologies are tested on her.

 

The christening of USS Midway (CVB-41), March 20, 1945.

 

USS Macon (ZRS-5) over Manhattan, 1933.

 

U10 (S189), after painting and minor repair work, at the Museum on the history of the German navies since 1848.

 

On this day 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 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 Oregon (BB-3), famed for her trip from San Francisco to Florida (south through the Strait of Magellan), a journey of over 14,000 nmi (25,900 km; 16,100 mi) at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. A month later she played a key role during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.

 

In November, the French shipyard CMN delivered the first of of three Ocean Eagle patrol boats ordered by the Angolan Navy. It’ is equipped with a mini helo deck to deploy UAV’s

 

USS Paul Ignatius has joined the exercise Freezing Winds 22 in Northern Baltic Sea

 

HMS Glasgow is currently being welded onto a submersible barge before being moved to Glen Mallan, on Loch Long, lowered into the water and floated back up river to Scotstoun, to be fitted out.

 

Another four new fast attack OPV's for the South Korean navy, to be built.

 

Senators Announce $182 Million Contract Awarded to Bath Iron Works.

https://seawaves.com/2022/11/23/senators-announce-182-million-contract-awarded-to-bath-iron-works/

ALL of the laid-up nuclear submarines will be gone as part of a UK Government pledge to "de-nuclearise Rosyth" by 2035.

 

Daily Mail UK reports sightings of NATO submarines visiting Faslane in 2022 have doubled since 2021. 85 so far compared with 43 last year. USN Los Angeles-class boat arriving this week.

 

JS Akebono (DD-108), Ariake (DD-109), Kongō (DDG-173) en Akizuki (DD-115) op Tategami Pier in Sasebo, July 2014

 

HMS Daring moved from dry dock to wet basin at Cammell Laird today. Type 45 Power Improvement Project explainer:

https://www.navylookout.com/in-focus-the-power-improvement-project-for-the-royal-navys-type-45-destroyers/ 

HMS Albion in Italy, held a commemoration service in Anzio for those lost during the landing operations of January 1944.

 

Flight Ops aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77).

 

HMS Glasgow (F88) on the semi-submersible barge, Malin Augustea, from which the first-of-class Type 26 frigate will be lowered into the water - Govan, November 2022.

 

HMS Victoria lightens her load, 1892. Victoria was primarily armed with two staggeringly large for the time 16.25" guns (aka the 110 ton gun) in one turret. The guns, which at best, took 3 minutes or more to reload and had barrels that drooped due to their weight, were not a success.

 

Homeward bound, HMS Montrose has completed northward transit of the Suez Canal.

 

USS Gerald R. Ford has returned to Naval Station Norfolk following her maiden operational deployment in the North Atlantic and visits to Canada and the UK.

 

The number of sightings of American nuclear submarines visiting Scotland this year has doubled over the same period last year. We reported previously that while visits themselves are common, the frequency of visits is not common. Neither is it common for visits to be publicised by the U.S. Navy or Royal Navy unlike the visit of the USS Rhode Island, a Trident-armed nuclear submarine, that arrived (and departed) earlier this year.

 

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.

 

Fletcher Class USS Charrette launched in June of 1942, would be named after the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, George Charrette, and would built as one of the Fletcher-class destroyers. At the start of her service, Charrette would be involved in many operations and training excersises such as escorting carriers to and from the Pacific region, operating with the task force involved in conducting air raids on the Japanese Home islands, and providing protection to supply ships. In 1944, USS Charrette would screen the carriers involved in strikes on Kwajalein and Eniwetok. The same year, she would conduct raids on the Japanese base at Truk. In 1947, Charrette would be officially decommissioned and later transferred to the Hellenic Royal Navy, and renamed Velos.

 

Drone imagery shows new warship HMS Glasgow, first of eight new Type 26 Frigates being built in Scotland, being moved onto a barge ahead of the vessel entering the water for the first time over the next week.

 

On this day in 1913, one of the most famous Royal Navy Dreadnought Battleships, HMS Warspite is launched at HMNB Devonport. Her amazing service over both World Wars won her more battle honours than any RN ship. This famous name will return as the third Dreadnought class submarine.

 

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the next generation landing craft, Ship to Shore Connector (SSC), Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 106 on November 17.

 

Constructed as one of the first aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy, HMS Argus would be commissioned just a few months before the end of World War I and would lay the ground for future carriers. Before HMS Argus became an aircraft carrier, she originally was an Italian liner that went by the name of "Conte Rosso." Argus would also be given the name of "Flat Iron" because during her construction, she was built without a tower and had a bow that came out pointed like an iron. Though she never had the chance to fight in the first World War, Argus would still have the opportunity to participate in fleet training and exercises with her crew during the inter-war period. When World War II broke out, HMS Argus would be commissioned once again and would be in charge of shipping fighter planes and necessary supplies across the sea. After the war concluded, Argus would be sold for scrap in 1946.

 

HNOMS GNIST P965 Royal Norwegian Navy. Fast missile patrol boat.

 

On this day in 1941, Battleship HMS Barham was struck by 3 torpedoes from U-331 in the Mediterranean. She capsizes to port & sinks within 4 mins after a massive explosion. 862 men were killed from a ships company of over 1200. I cannot imagine the terror of those 4 minutes.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1596024131111174145

HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier in Oslo, Norway along with HMS Kent (F78) and HMS Richmond (F239) - November 23, 2022.

 

On Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 9.30 a.m., the frigate “Mecklenburg-Vorpommern” returned to Wilhelmshaven from a NATO mission.

 

USS Onondaga, twin-turreted river monitor, on the James River. After the war she was sold to France and remained in service (though mostly in reserve) until 1898.

 

HMS Audacious escorted by HMS Tracker into HMNB Faslane.

 

More drugs off the street! ⚓ USS Nitze (DDG 94) conducted an interdiction with a fishing vessel smuggling illicit narcotics in the Gulf of Aden, Nov. 22. Nitze seized an estimated $20 million worth of illegal drugs from a fishing vessel while patrolling the Gulf.

 

Eleven Type 23s and Type 45 will get the 5th generation Naval Strike Missile to replace the venerable Harpoon anti-ship weapon from next year, after the MOD signed an agreement with the Norwegian Government.