German corvette FGS Magdeburg departs from Devonport yesterday morning for day 1 of Operational Sea Training delivered by FOST.

 

On this day in 1941, U-570 surrendered to RAF bombers after being damaged and forced to the surface by depth charges. After being commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph, the captured U-boat provided the Allies with important intelligence about German submarines.

 

LE George Bernard Shaw of the Irish Naval Service at the refuelling pier Haulbowline, Cork. All 4 Beckett class OPVs alongside together with 2 new patrol vessels bought from New Zealand. Both Róisín class OPVs were at Verolme Dockyard. Acute personnel issues with the Irish Naval Service mean not a single ship at sea.

 

Seven Archer Class P2000 Patrol Boats are preparing to ride North for the Summer where they will spend a fortnight sailing around Scotland’s coastline, providing an opportunity for important Operational Training for their crews.

 

 

HMS Cardiff heading down the Clyde for floating.

 

An octuple 40mm Pom Pom mount on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. WWII.

 

USS Boston (CAG 1) right, and USS Canbera (CAG 2), together on pier 5 Norfolk Naval Base, USS Intrepid (CVA 11) on the other side of pier side. 1958.

 

Chilean Navy Duke-class frigate Almirante Condell (FF-06) (ex. HMS Marlborough) leaving Papeete, Tahiti - August 14, 2024.

 

German Navy Braunschweig-class corvette FGS Braunschweig (F260) in the Kiel Locks on the Kiel Canal in Germany - August 14, 2024

 

HMS Middleton has completed her 6-week Deployed Docking Period in Bahrain with an overlaid Capability Insertion Period. Collaboration between BAE Systems, Royal Navy and BASREC ensured essential maintenance was completed to keep her mission-ready.

 

Block IV Virginia-class submarine, future USS Iowa (SSN 797), being floated for the first time at Electric Boat's Graving Dock 3. (August 11, 2023) She's expected to be commissioned in the Spring of 2025.

 

August 28th in 1976, the Soviet Echo II-class submarine K-22 collided with the frigate USS Voge (FF 1047), Souda Bay, Crete. The Soviet captain attempted to avoid the collision by ordering an emergency dive but rammed Voge's port quarter. Both vessels suffered severe damage.

 

Royal Canadian Navy Kingston-class coastal defence vessels HMCS Shawinigan (MM 704) and HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701) in Aalborg, Denmark - August 23, 2024.

 

Setbacks in the Royal Navy’s effort to get newly acquired auxiliary ships into service.

https://www.navylookout.com/setbacks-in-the-royal-navys-effort-to-get-newly-acquired-auxiliary-ships-into-service/ 

HMS Illustrious breaking away from French carrier Clemenceau, 1993.

 

USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69), being assisted by tugs, Hampton Roads, 1985.

 

Project 22800 Karakurt-class missile corvette, Amur was commissioned on August 27 in Kaspiysk. Russia.

 

HMS Glasgow, first of eight Type 26 Frigates, was moved from one dry dock into another at the BAE Systems yard in Scotstoun, Glasgow to make way for HMS Cardiff, the second of eight, soon leaving the BAE Sytems yard at Govan, Glasgow.

 

USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer transiting Godthab's Fjord - August 21, 2024.

 

Italian Navy Bergamini-class anti-submarine frigate, ITS Alpino (F594), leaving Yokosuka, Japan - August 27, 2024.

 

On this day in 2010 HMS Astute was commissioned into the Royal Navy. HMS Astute symbolises how far the ‘silent service’ has come in a century. Her keel was laid almost 100 years to the day of Holland 1, the first Royal Navy submarine.

 

Vanguard class submarine cold-moved from Coulport to Faslane today.

 

HMS Aurora is awaiting to be broken up, Milom, Cumberland, 1990.

 

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Harry S. Truman and USS Gerald R. Ford met up in the North Atlantic yesterday.

 

Israel Navy Super Dvora Mk III-class patrol boat. The Super Dvora Mk III craft features interception of sea target at high-speeds approaching 50 knots

 

USS Princeton (CG 59) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser coming into San Diego - August 23, 2024

 

HMS Ark Royal in close company with RFA Olmeda and HMS Galatea to stbd and RFA Regent and HMS Euryalus to port. 1976.

 

MoD says the decommissioned nuclear submarine dismantling project at Rosyth is making positive progress with time taken for each boat being reduced. The bulk of accessible low-level nuclear waste has been safely removed from ex-HMS Swiftsure, Resolution, Revenge and Repulse.

 

The Royal Malaysian Navy's (RMN) 45-year-old fast attack craft, KD Pendekar, has fully sunk at a position two nautical miles southeast of Tanjung Penyusop, Johor, at 3:54 PM today, according to an official statement from the RMN this evening, after collision with an underwater object.