French Aquitaine Class Frigate Normandie, outbound from Southampton this week.

 

Spanish Santa Maria Class, Navarra (F85) and Turkish G Class, TCG Gediz F-495, Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigates meet at the NATO exercise. 2016.

 

After being towed from Portsmouth HMS Cardiff ended up at Aliaga Recycling Complex, Turkey. 2009.

 

USNS Salvor (T-ARS-52) Safeguard-class salvage ship in Singapore - February 28, 2024.

 

USS San Diego (LPD 22) San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock coming into San Diego - February 28, 2024.

 

This February 27, 2024, photo shows the Hai Kun entering a dock during its final stages of harbor acceptance testing in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. The ship is the prototype for Taiwan's indigenous attack submarine program, with seven more submarines expected in the coming years.

 

Ex RFA Diligence being prepared for disposal.

 

Exercise Dynamic Mongoose 2020 met off the coast of Iceland. HMS Kent and her sister ship HMS Westminster met with the USS Roosevelt, USS Indiana, HNOMS Otto Sverdrop, HNOMS Utsira, HMCS Frederiction, FGS U36, and FS Casabianca Rouge.

 

The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5) transits the Suez Canal. February 2003.

 

HMAS Warramunga fires her 5-inch naval gun during a joint live firing with USS Halsey while at sea on regional presence deployment.

 

Landing ship ROKS No Jeok Bong (LST-689), fourth and final vessel of its class, was commissioned by South Korea.

 

Members of NASA's Exploration Ground System's Landing and Recovery team and the Department of Defense aboard USS San Diego practice recovery procedures during Underway Recovery Test 11 (URT-11) off the coast of San Diego on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.

 

On this day 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 Royal Navy decommissioned nuclear submarines are still in the water awaiting disposal in Rosyth or HMNB Devonport.

 

For the first time in 30 years the people of Essex have a ship they can call their own as the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer is bound with the county.

 

Tankers RFA Tidesurge and RFA Tidespring have joined up with HMSPWLS and the UK Carrier Strike Group. They are taking part in exercises off the UK coast alongside warships from Canada, Spain and Denmark as part of NATO's SteadfastDefender24.

 

HMS Aurora, tasked with finding and escorting Argentinian Submarine San Juan through the channel December 1985. The submarine had been built in Germany and sailed for delivery - She was lost with all hands in the South Atlantic in 1917.

 

RCN, HMCS Athabaskan (G07), one of three Canadian destroyers sent to Korea waters 1951/52.

 

Russian Navy Project 1164 Slava-class cruiser RFS Varyag (011) leaving Visakhapatnam, India milan2024 - February 24, 2024

 

USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) pre commissioning at Newport News Shipbuilding 2013.

 

German Navy Berlin-class replenishment oiler FGS Bonn (A1413).

 

EPS Santa María departing from Portsmouth yesterday morning.

 

HMS Prince of Wales now under STRIKFORNATO command conducts PHOTEX at the start of exercise steadfastdefender2024. Escorted by HMS Portland, RFA Tidesurge, RFA Tidespring, USS Paul Ignatius, HMCS Charlottetown, HDMS Niels Juel, HDMS Hvidbjørnen and ESPS Cristóbal Colón.

 

Ships from the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG) and the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), and Hellenic Navy frigate HS Navarinon (F 461) sail in formation in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 31, 2023.

 

FS Alsace, ESPS Almirante Juan de Borbón and ESPS Cantabria alongside in Southampton ahead of Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024.

HMS Ark Royal (R09) departs Devonport Dockyard in 1977. HMS Hermes (R12) is berthed astern in her guise as a commando carrier. HMS Leander (F109) and HMS Phoebe (F42) are alongside the depot ship HMS Defiance (A187).

 

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

USS Bache (DD-470) in 1964.

 

RFA Tiderace, RFA Fort Victoria and RFA Tideforce seen in the wet basin Cammell Laird.

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) transits with the Kolkata-class stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Kochi (D 64), center, and the Talwar-class frigate INS Teg (F 45) during a bilateral exercise. 2021.

 

German Navy Type 212A attack submarine S183 (U33) leaving the Kiel Locks in Kiel, Germany.

 

NAM Atlântico (A140) (previously HMS Ocean) is an amphibious helicopter carrier and current flagship of the Brazilian Navy.

 

HMS Diamond replenishes from HMAS Sirius

 

SMS Fürst Bismarck (Prince Bismarck)[a] was Germany's first armored cruiser, built for the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) before the turn of the 20th century.

 

The ship was named for the German statesman Otto von Bismarck. The design for Fürst Bismarck was an improvement over the previous Victoria Louise-class protected cruisers—Fürst Bismarck was significantly larger and better armed than her predecessors.

The ship was primarily intended for colonial duties, and she served in this capacity as part of the East Asia Squadron until she was relieved in 1909, at which point she returned to Germany. The ship was rebuilt between 1910 and 1914, and after the start of World War I, she was briefly used as a coastal defense ship. She proved inadequate to this task, and so she was withdrawn from active duty and served as a training ship for engineers until the end of the war. Fürst Bismarck was decommissioned in 1919 and sold for scrap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_F%C3%BCrst_Bismarck

USS Pearl Harbour (LSD 52) Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship leaving Seal Beach, California - February 14, 2024.

 

HMS Cavalier. Now preserved in Chatham Dockyard.

 

USS HOUSTON 1935

 

USS Houston (CL/CA-30), was a Northampton-class cruiser of the United States Navy

HMS Fife firing her Sea Slug missile. 1980.

 

Kriegsmarine U-Boat, U-510 in the Lorient pens on the west coat of France 1942/43.

 

USS Mahan (DLG-11), Terrier missiles aboard USS Preble (DLG-15), USS King (DLG-10), USS Coontz (DLG-9), San Diego harbour, 1961.

 

German ships FGS Hessen and FGS Spessart and COM SNMCMG1 ships ORP Czernicki, HNLMS Vlaardingen, ORP Hancza & ORP Druzno are in Riga, Latvia and Klaipeda, Latvia.

 

ITS MOROSINI is the new flagship of SNMG2; she is one of the Italian Navy's latest Ships.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1661189831471296512 

USS Prince (CVE-45)/HMS Rajah (D10) USS Prince (CVE-45) (originally named McClure, designated AVG-45 then later ACV-45) was an escort carrier laid down on 17 December 1942 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington. She was renamed Prince on 13 November 1942 and launched on 18 May 1943. She was sponsored by Mrs. J. L. McGuigan, reclassified CVE-45 on 15 July 1943 and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 17 October 1943.

 

Prince served the United Kingdom as HMS Rajah (D10). She was returned to the United States Navy at Norfolk, Virginia on 13 December 1946. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 7 February 1947 and delivered to her purchaser, Waterman Steamship Corporation, on 7 July. She became the merchant ship Drente (later renamed Lambros, then Ulysses) in 1948. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1975.