The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires the Close-In Weapons System during a live-fire exercise while operating in the Philippine Sea.

 

Three Royal Canadian Navy ‘Tribal’ class destroyers (from left to right), Nootka, Haida and Micmac, seen in company with three of the new, St Laurent class destroyer escorts at Oslo, in the late 1950s or early 1960s. It’s interesting to note how the apparently lightly-armed, post-war vessels are significantly bigger than the ‘Tribals’, the Royal Navy’s largest destroyers for most of World War II.

 

Royal Navy Takes Delivery Of Her Last Drone For Her Crewless Minehunting Programme The third and final Royal Navy autonomous minehunting boat has been delivered to Clyde Naval Base.

 

German submarine U-278 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

 

Five ships from the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41) battle group steam alongside one another. The ships are, from left to right: the frigates USS KIirk (FF 1087), USS Francis Hammond (FF 1067), USS Lockwood (FF 1064) and USS Knox (FF 1052) and the guided missile destroyer USS Towers (DDG 9). 1987.

 

French cruiser Marseillaise afire and sinking, Toulon, France, late November 1942.

 

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.

 

Nuclear-Powered USS Arkansas (CGN-41) Undergoing a Shock Test, March 1982.

 

The Type 42 air-warfare destroyer HMS Liverpool in company with the light aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal

 

HSwMS Gotland was a seaplane cruiser of the Swedish Navy.

 

The Persian Gulf off the Kuwaiti coast. USS Wisconsin (in the foreground) and USS Missouri are refueling from fast combat support ship USS Sacramento on the closing stage of Operation Desert Shield.

 

HMS Ark Royal with 4 NA39 Buccaneers, 4 Sea Vixens and an anti submarine Gannet on the flight deck being refueled by RFA Tidereach. Also being refueled is county class destroyer HMS London. On the right is a HMAS Derwent Modified Type 12 Frigate. 1965.

 

115 years ago, shipbuilders from a Baltic shipyard launched Russia's first submarine, 'Lamprey', equipped with a diesel engine. In November 1908, a test dive took place at the quay wall , as a result of which it was decided to equip the boat with a lead keel to increase ballast. Two years later in October 1910, the submarine joined the Russian fleet. During the First World War, the Lamprey made 14 military campaigns. achieving no results, although it tried several times to attack enemy ships.

 

The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste, just before her record dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, 23 January 1960. The waves were were about 1,5 to 1,8 m high when scientist Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh, USN, and Piccard boarded from the rubber raft attached to the bathyscaphe. The destroyer escort USS Lewis (DE-535) is steaming by in the background.

 

USS Wisconsin (BB-9) at the Portsmouth Navy Yard with one basket cage installed. This particularly awkward stage would last from mid-1909 to 1911 when she had her second basket cage mast installed.

 

The four masted barque Lawhill - still carrying trade! - passes the battleship HMS King George V in Sydney Harbour, 1945.

 

HDMS Thetis ocean patrol vessel belonging to the Royal Danish Navy.

 

USS Stockdale (DDG 106) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer leaving San Diego - November 27, 2023, with a backdrop of USS Abraham Lincoln.

 

USS Sterett UNREP with MSC Sealift USNS Yukon US 7th Fleet.

 

HMS PWLS alongside in Norfolk for the third time before returning to the UK. During Westlant 23 the ship achieved its 3,000 aircraft deck landing, and 150 F-35 landings during the deployment.

 

HMS Bulwark gets a new coat in Devonport dry dock.

 

Royal Navy sailors of a certain age will remember these. I spent a lot of time on the damn things! Royal Navy motor fishing vessel MFV 60 under sail at sea off Devonport, WWII.

 

Armada Argentina Gowind-class (OPV) offshore patrol vessel, ARA Piedrabuena (P-52) prepares for a deployment from Ushuaia - in the south of the country. It will focus on EEZ patrol and Illegal fishing observation, November 2023.

 

USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into Alpha Pier in San Diego - November 24, 2023.

 

The Wildcats from 847 NAS on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, show their defensive skills.

 

During trials off Plymouth in mid-October, BAE Systems’ autonomous RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) was successfully controlled from the operations room of HMS Argyll. Here we look in detail at the development of this system.

 

Houthi rebels fired ballistic missiles at USS Mason in the Gulf of Aden while she was responding to a call from Israeli owned tanker MV Central Park under attack from hijackers. Missiles fell short and the Mason caught the hijackers.

 

First Turkish MEKO-200TN frigate modernized under "Barbaros Class Frigate Mid Life Update" Project, TCG Oruçreis (F-245) has started the sea trials on 16 November 2023.

 

HMS Diamond arriving in Gibraltar this week. Believed to be on her way to relieve HMS Duncan in the eastern Mediterranean.

 

Former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) continuing to be dismantled in Brownsville, Texas - November 24, 2022.

 

Four Ex-US Army Vessels Now in Commercial Service in Port Vila, Vanuatu, South Pacific. Nathanael Greene Class tug, USAV Chickasaw Bayou, USAV Contreas, USAV LCM 8611.

 

Heading to Sea. A Trafalgar class submarine.

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On this day 110 years ago in 1913, one of the most famous Royal Navy Dreadnought Battleships, HMS Warspite was launched in 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 3rd Dreadnought class submarine.

 

Pearl Harbour Naval Station. 1986.

 

Sikorsky CH-3E Jolly Green Giant 66-13289, hovering over the deck of a U.S. Navy guided missile frigate, USS William V. Pratt (DLG-13), August 1967.

 

HMS Cattistock outbound from Portsmouth yesterday.