HMS Prince of Wales (R09) Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier leaving Portsmouth, England - September 28, 2024

 

The loss of HMS Sheffield in 1982.

 

USS Ohio (SSBN 726), coming home through the Hood Canal Bridge.

 

Sailors manually fire the Mark 38 Mod 3 25 mm machine gun system during a pre-action calibration firing exercise aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) in the Mediterranean Sea, Sept. 10, 2024.

 

Today marks 66 years of FOST, World Class training. The last 12 months had seen us train: 11 ships from 4 allies 🇩🇪🇳🇴🇳🇱🇵🇹 22 vessles of the Royal Navy RFA Headquarters Our Silent Service & Continuous at Sea Deterrent and 1 x NATO Task force

 

Hundreds of Australian submariners and civilians will receive specialist nuclear skills through training from #RoyalNavy engineers as part of UK-US-Australian military cooperation.

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2024/september/26/20240926-closer-links-and-more-training-with-australia-as-rn-s-aukus-ties-are-strengthened 

Destination Normandy. HMS Cattistock, HMS Dasher and HMS Trumpeter, plus wartime motorboats and tugs escorted veterans on the Brittany Ferries 'Mont St Michel' out of Portsmouth today for D Day 80 events. Yesterday veterans reminisced with men of 47 Cdo RM.

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2024/june/04/20240604-d-day-veterans-meet-commandos 

In 1988, an Iranian M-08 mine made a 25-foot (8 m) hole in the hull of the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, forcing the ship to seek temporary repairs in a dry dock in Dubai, UAE.

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/2686837/when-heritage-meets-initiative-the-story-of-samuel-b-roberts-ffg-58/ 

German Navy Kalkgrund-class auxiliary vessel FGS Kalkgrund (Y898) coming into the Brunsbuttel Locks on the Kiel Canal in Germany - September 27, 2024.

                                                    

 

HMS Prince of Wales departing from Portsmouth yesterday, viewed from Gosport side.

 

JS Kongo and USS Boxer Amphibious Assault Ship conducted a joint exercise, further improving interoperability between the two navies.

 

Satellite image: Fears China is covering up radiation leak from sunken nuclear submarine blunder in Wuhan, and hiding other nuke disasters.

 

On completion of Operational Sea Training with the RN FOST (Flag Officer Sea Traing), FGS Magdeburg arrived in London, alongside HMS Belfast.

 

HMS Glasgow and HMS Cardiff fitting out together at BAES Maritime .Scotstoun.

 

Oiler USNS Big Horn damaged by grounding aft being towed into Duqm, Oman for repairs yesterday.No oil leak or injuries to crew.

 

On this day in 2013 the sixth, and final Type 45 Destroyer, HMS Duncan was commissioned in HMNB Portsmouth. A relative nozzer in British Warship terms, she is currently the last escort commissioned for the RN until HMS Venturer or HMS Glasgow are commissioned.

 

Replenishment oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground off the Coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea and suffered serious damage. Now being towed to Dubai. She is currently the only oiler available to support the USN in the Middle East.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2024-09-24/usns-big-horn-15286129.html 

The Peacock class is a class of patrol corvette built for the Royal Navy. Five were constructed, and by 1997 all had been sold to the Irish Naval Service or the Philippine Navy.

 

USS Yorktown (CV-10) and USS Laffey (DD-724) at Patriots Point near Charleston, SC.

 

FFGH ITSAlpino F594 Bergamini Class ASW variant in the Atlantic Ocean 2018, In background USS Gonzales DDG66.

 

40 years ago today, the keel was laid for The Louisville Slugger, USS Louisville (SSN 724). The Flight II Los Angeles-class boat fired the first-ever submarine launched Tomahawks in combat during the opening of Desert Storm.

 

A Norwegian fishing vessel was shot at by a Russian, the Admiral Levchenko warship, 605, in the Barents Sea in Norwegian territorial waters. The encounter happened after the Norwegian vessel refused to move from its fishing lines despite being commanded by the Russian military.

 

USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) shifted berths while in a floating dry dock at NASSCO, San Diego to make room for the launch of a new T-AO ship. Sept 20, 2024. USS Chung Hoon is getting AN/SLQ-32(V)7 SEWIP Block 3 and other major upgrades

 

HMS Belfast and HMS Ocean during the Korean War.

 

FS Rhone back into Portsmouth this morning following participation in NATO submarine rescue exercise DynamicMonarch2024

 

In June 1957, after spending over 12 years resting on the Baltic Sea floor, U-2540 was recovered and refurbished at Howaldtswerke in Kiel. It was then commissioned as a research vessel by the Bundesmarine, serving as a test boat (Class 241) from September 1, 1960, to August 28, 1968. Upon its relaunch, the submarine was renamed Wilhelm Bauer in honor of the designer of the first German U-boat, the Brandtaucher, which was built in Kiel by August Howaldt in 1850. The ex-Type XXI Wilhelm Bauer originally designated as U-2540 rebuilt in service with the Bundesmarine in the 1960s.

 

HMS Prince of Wales (R09) Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier coming into Portsmouth, England - August 11, 2024

 

USS Antietam (CG 54) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser with a dead-stick berthing shift in Pearl Harbor in preparation for Friday, September 27 decommissioning - September 23, 2024

 

HMS Bulwark. Amphibious Transport Dock - LPD / Albion class, L15.

 

Italian Navy Bergamini-class anti-submarine frigate ITS Alpino (F594) and aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (550) in Singapore - September 21, 2024.