Battle of Savo Island. USS Blue on HMAS Canberra’s port bow and USS Patterson approaching to rescue survivors on 9th August 1942.

 

A stern view of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) taking part in underway replenishment operations with USS Jarrett (FFG-33).

 

Vickers, Sons & Maxim factory floor, circa 1906. Lined up are 7.5" Mk V single gun turrets destined for HMS Shannon (a Minotaur-class cruiser). On top of the turrets are QF 12lb guns (the two in the foreground have not had the barrels placed yet).

HMS Shannon was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War, she served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began, for the entire war, but only participated in a single battle, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. Shannon spent most of the war unsuccessfully patrolling the North Sea for German warships and commerce raiders. She was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.

 

USS Prairie (AD-15), USS Shields (DD-596), USS Agerholm (DD-826), USS Richard B. Anderson (DD-786) and USS Evans (DD-1023), San Diego, August 1962,

 

HMS Dauntless departs from Portsmouth this morning.

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4½ tonnes of illegal narcotics seized from a dhow in the Gulf of Oman by US Coast Guard Cutter John Scheuerman under command of RN-led CTF150.

 

On this day in 1991, the nuclear submarine HMS Churchill is decommissioned and laid up in Rosyth Royal Dockyard awaiting disposal.She remains there to this day. All 19 of the Royal Navy decommissioned nuclear submarines are still in the water awaiting disposal in Rosyth or HMNB Devonport.

 

USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), center, and ITS Caio Duilio (D 554) sail in formation in the Adriatic Sea, Feb. 24, 2023.

 

USS Missouri (BB-63) at anchor in Naples harbour. The guided missile destroyer USS Dahlgren (DDG-43) is at the left, Nov 1, 1986.

 

HMS Corruna, a Battle Class Destroyer, with HMS Ark Royal astern. 1960's.

 

The destroyer USS Caron (DD-970) is struck by the bows of a Soviet Mirka II class light frigate (FL-824) as the American vessel exercises the right of free passage through the Soviet-claimed 12-mile territorial waters. 1988.

 

During the Falklands War, the picture of Type 42 destroyer HMS Cardiff (D108) after the 4.5-inch turret used in the shore bombardment.

 

USS Howorth (DD-592) being sunk as a target off San Clemente Island, by USS Salmon (SSR-573), March 1962.

 

HMS Smiter, HMS Pursuer, HMS Archer anD HMS Puncher arrive in Florø, Norway for logistic stop as they transit north to joint NATO exercises in the Arctic Circle.

 

USS Wyoming, coaling and storing at Scapa Flow, 1918.

 

HMS Starling, part of the Hong Kong Squadron, 1984/1987. Then transferred to the Phillippine Navy, still serving.

 

Experimental turbine ship HMS Turbinia after an unfortunate encounter with a recently launched merchant ship (she was repaired). Turbinia was powered by a direct-drive turbine driving 6 propellers and, at 34.5knts, the fastest ship in the world when launched (by far).

 

02 June 2008: Puerto Princesa, the Philippines - U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships, from left, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), the guided-missile frigate USS Jarrett (FFG 33), the guided-missile frigate USS Ford (FFG 54), and the U.S.C.G. cutter Morgenthau (WHEC-722) are moored at the commercial pier in Puerto Princesa at the conclusion of the Philippine portion of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2008 exercise.

 

HMS Tyne sailed yesterday from Falmouth in the new Western Approaches paint scheme. The first Batch 1 OPV to have full life-extension refit.

 

HMS Kent sailing from HMNB Portsmouth, with ex HMS Bristol tied up on Whale Island, HMS Excellent.

 

Eastern Pacific - USS Jarrett and USS Rentz (FFG 46) underway during fleet operations.

 

USN dreadnought battleship USS Wyoming building up steam to leave New York, 1915.

 

Portsmouth Dockyard, seen during Portsmouth Navy Day 1980. Seen are "Isles" Class A/S trawler "HMS Bern", "Type 14 frigate "HMS Hardy" and "County" Class destroyer HMS Fife. 1912 Arrol 250-ton electric hammerhead crane (demolished 1984).

 

RFA Tideforce inbound on the Clyde this morning.

 

On this day in 1991, Type 42 Destroyer, HMS Gloucester destroyed an Iraqi Silkworm missile bound for USS Missouri with her Sea Dart missile system during Op. Granby. The first Gulf War.

 

Turkish frigate F-495 TCG Gediz (center) escorting the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (left) and the Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi (right) during the NATO exercise Majestic Eagle 2004 in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Future of Ex-HMS Courageous now in Doubt.

 

USS Farragut (DDG 99) arrived in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations for a scheduled deployment, Feb. 15. Embarked with the ship is U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) 406 to conduct counter narcotic operations in the region.

 

The final of six new boats to improve support to Royal Navy divers has been delivered. Replacing outdated vessels, the 15m Vahana boats provide improved speed, operational range and navigation equipment – all vital to diving operations.

 

USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 and USS Yorktown CG-48 in Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping.January 2023.

 

HMS Smiter, HMS Pursuer, HMS Archer and HMS Puncher make a brief stop in Stavanger, Norway to embark personnel.