Recently decommissioned USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) being towed southbound in Puget Sound by USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) salvage ship en route Bremerton. August 29, 2023.

 

RNZN Sailors Take Part in Middle East Drug Bust.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495546/navy-helps-in-international-22-tonne-half-billion-dollar-drug-bust 

USS Kidd DDG-993 and USS Peterson DD-969 moored together on the north side of pier 24 at the Norfolk Naval Base in 1996.

 

5 ship RAS on HMS Ark Royal.

 

Known as the "Big O," the 32,000-ton, 888-foot Oriskany is being delivered to Pensacola, where it is being prepared for its final journey. Oriskany was scuttled 22 miles south of Pensacola in approximately 212 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico May 17, 2006, she's the largest ship ever intentionally sunk as an artificial reef. After the Oriskany reaches the bottom, ownership of the vessel will transfer from the Navy to the State of Florida.

 

Size comparison: German Navy Type 212A-class diesel-electric/AIP attack submarine (left) and Type 206A-class diesel-electric attack submarine.

 

USNS Navajo is the first in a class of new towing , salvage and rescue ships.

 

RFA Fort Victoria sailed from Leith today to continue her lay up, in Birkenhead, pending further work at Cammell Laird.

 

Spooky! K34 HSwMS Nyköping, Korvette; Visby class, Sweden.

 

John Lewis-class of T-AO oilers. USNS John Lewis, shown (foreground) at the San Diego yard during sea trials last year and others under construction in the background.

 

HMS Westminster in 2018.

 

HMS Westminster in No. 4 Basin Devonport, awaiting decision on refit being to expensive.

 

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (Aug 19, 2023) USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) arrives at Ingalls Shipbuilding to begin a two-year process to install hypersonic missile tubes, also known as the Conventional Prompt Strike weapon system.

 

Ukrainian naval kamikaze drone washed up on the coast of Crimea. Photo from open sources.

 

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 Euryalus to clear the dockyard. The photo is of HMS Indomitable shortly after.

 

RFA Olna, HMS Eagle and RFA Resource, during Operation Peacekeeper, Sep 24, 1969.

 

In 1916, successive tsunami-like waves battered USS Memphis while anchored near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The crushing waves slammed the ship into the harbour bottom several times, causing substantial damage to the ship.

 Memphis being stripped of supplies and equipment, shortly after being wrecked.

The Royal Navy Trafalgar Class nuclear-powered attack submarine SSN HMS Triumph inbound to HMNB Devonport, Plymouth yesterday afternoon.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1695843668152697280

 

USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided missile destroyer coming into San Diego after a nearly 8-month Middle East deployment - August 28, 2023.

 

A Type 23 frigate and 2 x P2000s will attend the Defence and Security Equipment International event at the London exhibition and convention centre (Sept 12-15th), together with a Dutch and a German frigate.

 

HMS Lancaster has arrived in Karachi for a defence diplomacy visit ahead of bi-lateral naval exercise White Star with Pakistani warships PNS Taimur and PNS Yarmook.

 

On this day in 1939, the Admiralty ordered the mobilisation of the Royal Navy as World War 2 began.

 

HMS Spey arrives in Dili, Timor-Leste, Indonesia..

 

USS America (LHA 6) America-class amphibious assault ship in Manila, Philippines - August 27, 2023.

 

USS Lake Erie (CG 70) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser leaving San Diego - August 27, 2023

 

HMCS Vancouver and HMCS Ottawa with MV Asterix, alongside in Yokosuka.

 

On this day in 1969 the Submarine, HMS Conqueror 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 war. Paid off in 1990 she currently awaits disposal in Devonport.

 

First self propelled torpedo.

https://www.bitesizedbritain.co.uk/the-first-modern-torpedo111/ 

Commissioned in early September, 1944, USS Springfield would be built as one of the Clevland-class light cruisers for service in the second World War. USS Springfield, the flagship of the 6th Fleet, monitoring the former Soviet Navy anti-submarine cruiser VMF Leningrad in February 1972. Commissioned in early September, 1944, USS Springfield would be built as one of the Clevland-class light cruisers for service in the second World War. Her primary role during the war was to provide assistance to carriers and assist in raids on enemy Japanese locations. She would also be a part of carrier screening and provide shore bombardment assistance. After Japan surrendered in 1945, it would only be a few years later before Springfield would join the reserve fleet, and though this would seem like the end of the cruisers career, she would luckily get a second life and be converted into a Providence-class Terrier guided missile cruiser. She would serve into the mid-1970s before being officially decommissioned and later sold for scrap. For her service in the second World War, Springfield would be awarded two battle stars. Shown here tracking Russian helicopter cruiser, Leningrad.

 

French nuclear attack submarine. SNA Suffren.

 

HMS Diamond returned to Portsmouth this week after a short work up period.

 

The decomissioned U.S. Navy guided missile cruisers USS Yorktown (CG-48), USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) and USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) moored at the Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Pennsylvania (USA), on 4 May 2016. The bow ot the decommissioned guided missile destroyer USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) is visible in the foreground.

 

The Finnish Coastal Fleet’s mine countermeasures vessel Vahterpaa.

 

HMS Archer in the shed at Docks UK, South Shields, for annual maintenance period.

 

USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) Legend-class cutter passing Alcatraz Island, leaving San Francisco - August 22, 2023

 

Gibraltar’s rising significance as a strategic military point was recently highlighted during Armed Forces Minister James Heappey’s visit to the Rock.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/gibraltars-growing-military-role-minister-visits-the-rock/ 

The German submarine U-185 sinking after being attacked by U.S. Navy aircraft. 24 August 1943.

 

The newly formed Q-Ship trust aims to save and restore the former HMS Saxifrage (renamed HMS President in 1922). The last surviving WWI Q-ship. Looking to raise £50 -70k. Berthed on the Thames embankment near Tower Bridge, London.

 HMS President (1918) was (HMS Saxifrage) and HMS Chrysanthemum (1917).