Commodore Dewey’s USS Olympia docked in Philadelphia.

 

HMS Queen Elizabeth operating in the North Atlantic Ocean.

 

Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper USS Grosbeak (AMS-14). In the background are USS Knapp (DD-653), USS Ingersoll (DD-652).

 

HMS Vanguard refit in Devonport: The Sun reports at least 7 bolts holding insulation in place on nuclear reactor coolant pipes sheared off from over-tightening instead of being replaced, heads glued back on.

 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21217944/nuclear-security-alert-botched-repair-trident-submarine-super-glue/

Norwegian firm contracted by BAES Maritime to build a further 5 lightweight composite masts for 2nd batch of Type 26 frigates. Contract covers manufacture of the mast structure, including sponsons, doors, hatches & internal outfitting, plus some bulwarks and life raft platforms.

 

USS James E. Williams (DDG 95) departed on deployment, December 2, 2022. During the deployment, James E. Williams will serve as the flagship for Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) and will operate in the European theater. She will conduct freedom of navigation and presence operations as well as participate in multiple exercises with Allies and partners in the region.

 

View of the former Swedish patrol boat HMS Hugin (P151), berthed at Maritiman, Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

Aerial view of laid up nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy in Devonport.

 

For sale. Apparantly. One 4.5" turret. One careful owner!

 

On this day in 1945, the destroyer USS Higbee was commissioned. USS Higbee was the first US Navy combat ship to bear the name of a female member of the naval service, named in honor of Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, who entered the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps in 1908.

 

HMS Somerset the first Royal Navy vessel to receive the Naval Strike Missile. Obsolete Harpoon racks being removed in Devonport.

 

On this day in 1965, the state funeral of one of the greatest of Britons, Sir Winston Churchill, took place at St Pauls Catherdral. All of the Armed Forces were involved but it was the privilege of the Royal Navy to pull his coffin on a gun carriage. Churchill held post of 1st Lord of the Admiralty twice.

 

USS Amphitrite, 10" gun Monitor around WWI.

 

All 3 Hobart class air defence destroyers and 2 Canberra LHDs of the Royal Australian Navy seen together.

 

HMS Triumph alongside Garden Island Sydney, February 1968, with HMS Dido and HMS Euryalus outboard.

 

Torpedo Bulge of USS Utah (BB-31), in South Boston Drydock 1929 looking like a damn monster.

 

On this day, and the 2 weeks that followed in 1991, Royal Navy Lynx Helicopters from HMS Brazen, HMS Gloucester, HMS Cardiff and HMS Manchester neutralised 25% of the Iraqi Navy at Bubiyat Channel using the Sea Skua anti-ship missile.

 

USS Columbus (CG-12) on sea trials after her 1959-62 conversion to an Albany-class missile cruiser.

 

HMS Iron Dukealongside in Devonport, due to return to sea soon, having almost completed LIFEX refit.

 

USS Constitution as a barracks ship ca. 1905 with the caisson gate for Dry Dock No. 1 at the Charlestown Navy yard floating in the foreground.

 

Barrack ships in Portsmouth. Many veterans of the Age of Sail were used as barrack ships well into the 20th century, a practice that insured the survival of some, including USS Constitution and HMS Victory.

 

On this day in 1596, legendary sailor Sir Francis Drake died from yellow fever in W. Indies. Famous as a privateer who rose to Vice Admiral and served in the English Fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada. He claimed California for England and circumnavigated the world.

 

Lightship LV-83, (Swiftsure), converted to this Patrol Vessel (WAL 508). Full story and more photos of her in varous guises on my Lighthouse site.

https://mewe.com/group/5c8dee76a808b1317057f219

 

HMS Nelson.

 1. HMS Nelson in original form.

2. The razée frigate HMS Nelson in her final form as a warship, c. 1882-9.HMS Nelson was a 126-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich Dockyard, but then laid up incomplete at Portsmouth until 1854, when work began with a view to commissioning her for service in the Crimean War, but this ended before much work had been done, and the ship returned to reserve.She was converted into a screw ship in 1860, being cut down to a two-decker and fitted with an engine of 2,102 indicated horsepower (1,567 kW) for a speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph). 

3. Stern view of the razée HMS Nelson in the Alfred Graving Dock, Williamstown, c. 1874. Razee is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. 

Following the seizure of USS Pueblo, Adm.Thomas H. Moorer, CNO, and President of the Naval Institute gave remarks in an address to the American Bar Foundation on January 25, 1969, which was published in the March 1969 issue of Proceedings magazine.

 USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what was later known as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".

Earlier this month, Port of Tacoma tenant, SAFE Boats International, LLC received the hull of a Mark VI Patrol Boat at its facility at the Earley Business Center. This boat is the first of eight that SAFE Boats will be creating and outfitting under contract with the U.S. Navy for Ukraine.

 

HMS Trent has suffered mechanical issues and has been stuck in Gibraltar since May 2022. She was dry-docked 8 Aug -29 Sept ahead of planned W. Africa deployment. After trials, she was back in dock 15 on 23rd Oct but has been on the wall since.

 

JMSDF Takanami cutting through rough seas on Jan 24th 2023.

 

Leander Class Frigate HMS Jupiter, sometime in the 70's.

 

Sailors assigned to GHWB CVN77and USS Nitze (DDG 94) conduct routine operations in the US Navy Europe area of operations.

 

USS Abrham Lincoln CVN 72 conducts an ammunition transfer with USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), during a replenishment-at-sea with the MSCcSealift USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187).

 

HMS Daring D32 and HMS Dauntless D33 alongside together in Portsmouth dockyard yesterday.

 

Spanish Navy Galerna-class attack submarine ESPS Galerna (S71) leaving Cartagena, Spain - January 24, 2023.