On this day in 1963, USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) entered Sydney to participate in events marking the 21st anniversary of the Battle of Coral Sea for which she was named. Over 100,000 Australians took advantage of the opportunity to tour the Midway-class carrier while she was in port.

 

HMS Royal Sovereign undergoing maintenance under the Hammerhead crane, at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 1941.

 

Swedish minelayer and cadet training ship "Älvsnabben" (1943) entering Taranto harbour on a training cruise. 1968.

 

HMS Aeneas in 1972 was equipped with an innovative SLAM (Submarine-Launched Airflight Missile) of the type MANPADS Shorts Blowpipe From 4 to 6 missiles available. HMS AENEAS was hired by Vickers in 1972 for successful trials of SLAM (Submarine Launched Anti-Aircraft Missile), a system using a cluster of four Shorts Blowpipe missiles on an extendable mast, allowing attacks against low flying aircraft while the submarine was at periscope depth. HMS Aeneas

 

USS Little Rock (CLG-4) firing a RIM-8 Talos surface-to-air missile, May 4, 1961

 

Bridge comparison: HMS Queen Elizabeth vs USS Gerald R Ford.

 

Major fire at Russian Black Sea Fleet's fuel depot at Cossack Bay in Sevastopol. Apparently struck by Ukrainian UAV.

 

NASSCO shipbuilders have laid the first block for the future USNS Lucy Stone (T-AO 209)!

 

Former RFA Diligence now tidal before she gets towed away for scrap.

 

HMS Defender has been shadowing 3 Russian warships on their way to the Baltic, returning home after 18 months on operations in the Mediterranean. Frigate RFS Admiral Grigorovich & corvettes RFS Soobrazitelny and RFS Stoikiy.

 

Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, commander of U-96, stands watch. A wonderfully evocative photo. U-96 was on her 7th War Patrol when she was accompanied by photographer & journalist Lothar-Günther Buchheim, who would later write Das Boot.

 

USS Sacramento (AOE-1), center, conducts a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), left, and the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64), right, during Operation Desert Shield, Jan 14, 1991.

 

HMS_Persuer, HMS Charger and HMS Archer met up with HMS Albion in the Baltic Sea ahead of Exercise Aurora 23.

 

Reference and training manual covering submarine hydraulic systems (Official Sensitive) found in Wetherspoons pub toilet in Barrow in Furness, with lanyard from HMS Anson.

 

On this day 221 years ago, in 1802, the Marines became the Royal Marines and today as then the Royal Marines provide the Royal Navy and United Kingdom with the highest quality amphibious force in the world.

 

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington, January 25 1990, laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility are the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 32), the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 31) and the destroyer USS Turner Joy (DD 951). In the background at left is the attack aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA 31).

 

HMS Resolution and HMS Valiant 1947.

 

RFA Tidepool and County Class Destroyer HMS Hampshire. Lake Erie 1867.

 

Recovery of the Mercury-Atlas 4 capsule by USS Decatur (DD-936). It completed one orbit prior to returning to Earth. The capsule was recovered 161 miles east of Bermuda 82 minutes after splash-down

 

USS Planter, a Confederate side-paddlewheel steamer stolen by Robert Smalls, a slave and the ships' helmsman. While the captain was off ship, Smalls cast off and steamed past several rebel forts until reaching the Union blockading fleet where he surrendered the ship, becoming a free man.

 

HMS Abercrombie, a WWII Roberts-class 15in Monitor.

 

HDMS Alsin (Y345) Danish Navy tug boat with a Otto Melera's 76 mm gun. Classed as a tug, but looking more like a Lego Gunboat.

 

USS Theodore Roosevelt undocks from dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard August.

 

Swedish coastal squadron anchored in Stockholm 1937. Front row: Coastal defence ships "Sverige", "Drottning Victoria" and the aviation cruiser "Gotland", with several destroyers anchored in the background. All 3 Sverige class received different funnel arrangements with modernisation.

 

USS Tennessee at Puget Sound Navy Yard, April 1943. The amount of added AA guns is amazing.

 

Royal Navy battleship HMS Warspite pictured in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, December 1941 undergoing repairs and a refit following the Battle of Crete earlier that same year.

 

The Royal Navy - Past and Present.

 

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) and Virginia-class submarine USS Indiana (SSN 789) in port for Fleet Week Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

USS John F Kennedy (CV 67), USS Seattle (AOE-3) and HMCS St John's during Op Apollo 2002.

 

HMS Defender coming alongside RFA Tidesurge in challenging conditions in the High North at the start of exercise Joint Warrior during March.

 

Rainbow camouflage. Finnish Hamina class missile boat underway at very high speed

 

April 26th 1982: At around 16.00 the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano departs from her moorings in Ushuaia and heads out to sea... It will be her last voyage. But with refurbished main guns, a lot of AA weaponry and thick armour, she is a potent threat.

 

Coming in for a pit stop! NavyPresence Free and Open Indo Pacific. The USS Maine (SSBN 741) submarine arrives at Naval Base Guam for a logistics stop, April 18. The logistics stop reflects the United States’ resolve and commitment to the Indo-Pacific region.

 

Four P2000s made Royal Navy history when they ventured inside the Arctic Circle to take part in NATO exercises in Norway. It's the first time the navy's smallest ships from the Coastal Forces Squadron have sailed that far north in their 35-year history