Freedom-Class littoral combat ship, USS Kansas City (LCS 15).

 

1. Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in the Panama Canal coming out of Gaillard Cut and heading into Gatun Lake near the town of Gamboa, 26, March 2015. Ex-Tripoli was under dead tow by Narragansett. The Panama Canal tug acts as a rudder during transit. 2. On July 2018, the USS Tripoli was towed to Brownsville, Texas, where she will be dismantled and recycled.

 

HMSQNLZ firing a gun salute for Cowes week Royal Squadron regatta on her way into Portsmouth yesterday evening.

 

Pearl Harbour Naval Shipyard Completes USS Hawaii Refit.

 

The reshaping of mine warfare in the Royal Navy has taken key steps forward with the testing of various autonomous equipment and new ways of using it on frontline operations. From testing crewless minehunting equipment in the Baltic to launching autonomous vessels in UK waters, it has been a busy year so far for the RN_MTXG (Mine & Threat Exploitation Group). The reshaping of mine warfare in the RoyalNavy has taken steps forward.

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The 83-foot cutters 83401, renamed USCG 20, and the 83402, renamed USCG 21, were two of the sixty Coast Guard cutters sent to England to serve as rescue craft off each of the invasion beaches during the Normandy Invasion.

 

1. Hecla-class oceanographic survey vessel KRI Dewa Kembar-932 (ex HMS Hydra-A144), still active in the Indonesian navy. During the Falklands War, she served as a hospital ship. Bought by Indonesia in 1986. 2. HMS Hecla, RFA Olmeda and SS Uganda.

 

July 29th 1982: HMS Hecla returned to Devonport to a rapturous welcome from the families of her crew and those of the wounded men on board. Throughout the war, she served as a floating ambulance taking casualties from both sides to SS Uganda, and made three runs to Montevideo.

 

Giuseppe Garibaldi (C 551) aircraft cruiser, Genova Italy.

 

Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine coming into San Diego for a quick turn and outbound again - July 24, 2024.

 

USS Emory S. Land (AS-39) Emory S. Land-class submarine tender coming into Adelaide, Australia - July 29, 2024

 

Britain’s flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth will return home to Portsmouth tomorrow, passing Round Tower approx 2000. But first will carry out a sail past the Isle of Wight, exchanging gun salutes with the Royal Yacht Squadron marking Cowes week regatta in the Solent. following four months of repairs in Scotland and a short intensive spell at sea to test her systems.

 

The Ex Sandown-class warships, HMS Grimsby, now UNS Cherkasy, and HMS Shoreham now UNS Chernihiv left Portsmouth this morning.

 

Broadsword class Type 22, HMS Cornwall (F99), decommissioned 2011.

 

The Maya class of guided-missile destroyers in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is a modified version of the Atago class, with an updated Aegis Combat System and electric propulsion system.

 

MP confirms the new government intends to go ahead with the planned Carrier Strike Group deployment to the Indo-Pacific region next year CSG25 led by HMSPWLS.

 

Future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer christened today in Bath, Maine - July 27, 2024

 

Spanish Navy Alvaro de Bazan-class air defence frigate ESPS Alvaro de Bazan (F101) in Reykjavik, Iceland - July 6, 2024, and ESPS Cristobal Colon (F105).

 

USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving Bremerton, Washington - July 7, 2024, and USS Turner Joy in the foreground.

 

The decommissioned USS William C. Lawe (DD-763) on the right, which in 1983 had been the very last WWII destroyer in the US Navy.

 

Trafalgar Day International fleet review, Portsmouth 2005.

 

From bottom to top; USS Independence, CV-62, USS Kitty Hawk, CV-63, USS Constellation, CV-64 and USS Ranger, CV-61. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. 2010.

 

HMS Richmond was outbound from Portsmouth this week following a week alongside.

 

Royal Netherlands Navy HNLMS Tromp (F803) firing a harpoon missile during live fire sinking part of RIMPAC 2024.

 

latest image from Google Earth of the Beaumont Reserve Fleet.

 

Russian frigate Project 11540 Neustrashimy.

 

BAES Maritime Fast Interceptor Craft operated by the Special Boat Service (SBS), pictured in the Solent, can achieve 40 knots.