Corvette FGS Braunschweig currently undergoing FOST from Devonport following sistership FGS Magdeburg in the summer.

 

In dire straits – the RFA in crisis?

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/in-dire-straits-the-rfa-in-crisis/

 

USS Michigan (SSGN 727) Ohio-class nuclear guided missile submarine coming into Guam. USS Boxer in the background.

 

The USS Enterprise was designed to be the largest and most powerful aircraft carrier in the world. It measured over 1,100 feet in length and had a displacement of over 90,000 tons. Its eight nuclear reactors provided virtually unlimited power, allowing the ship to operate for years without refuelling. The ship was also equipped with the latest technology, including steam catapults and advanced radar systems.

 

Royal Netherlands Navy Snellius-class hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Luymes (A803) coming into Plymouth, England - November 29, 2024.

 

Today 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.

 

HMS Trent is currently in dry dock at Palumbo Shipyards in Malta undergoing 5-yearly recertification and maintenance period.

 

Crewmembers of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) work on the flight deck of the cutter during the contraband offload in San Diego, Nov. 19, 2024. The Munro crew members interdicted the narcotics in the Eastern Pacific during counter-narcotic patrols, seizing 29,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated wholesale value of $335.8 million.

 

The preliminary investigation into the grounding and subsequent sinking of HMNZS Manawanui concludes human error was main cause. Crew failed to disengage the autopilot and neglected proper manual control checks.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/crew-mistakes-caused-new-zealand-navy-sinking-off-samoa/104665376 

MSC Sealift USNS Carl Brashear UNREP with USS McCampbell and USS Higgins in the Philippine Sea.

 

Ex-HMS Valiant is being moved into No. 5 basin at Devonport today. Maybe sign that work on the first SSN to be dismantled at Devonport is about to begin. HMS Somerset alongside beyond.

 

Sunrise in Plymouth Sound recently. Merlin Mk2 (Kingfisher Flight) of 814 NAS on the flight deck of HMS St Albans.

 

USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) bound for Hampton Roads, after leaving the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, 14 November 1910.

 

Argentine Navy Murature-class offshore patrol vessel ARA King (P-21) coming into Buenos Aires, Argentina (commissioned in 1946) - November 19, 2024

 

USNS Pathfinder (T-AGS-60) Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship leaving Port Canaveral, Florida - November 19, 2024

 

HMS Albion in Fremantle, 1959.

 

USS Indiana (SSN 789), Virginia-class Block III attack submarine outbound from Faslane, Scotland, today.

 

Following an exercision into Irish Sea last week, Portuguese OPV NRP Sines monitored the Russian seabed spy ship Yantar transiting south off the Portuguese coast. Yantar now passed through Gibraltar Strait into Mediterranean.

 

HMS St Albans, outbound from Devonport for FOST this week.

 

Combat Support Ship (CSS) HNLMS Den Helder on her delivery voyage from Damen shipyard in Galati, Romania, to be fitted out in Netherlands.

 

Former USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser being towed out of Norfolk, Virginia for Philadephia - October 28, 2024.

 

Future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer, a second Arleigh Burke, and the USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) in Pascagoula, Mississippi - October 30, 2024

 

Luigi Rizzo (F 595) is a Carlo Bergamini-class frigate of the Italian Navy which were developed from the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.

 

Two of the three Type 23 frigates in this 2023 image are no longer operational, following the decommissioning of HMS Northumberland (F238).

 

BAE Systems has self-funded the development of HERNE – an Extra-Large Uncrewed Autonomous Vehicle (XLUAV).

https://www.navylookout.com/up-close-with-herne-bae-systems-xluav-concept/ 

The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729) exits the dry dock at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., following an extended refit period. Georgia is one of two guided-missile submarines stationed at the base and is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles.

 

RN NavyX XVPTBK conducting further trials with autonomous Pacific 24 RIB (APAC) - in and out of Portsmouth last week.

 

HMS Bristol to be scrapped with Portsmouth-based Falklands destroyer sold to Turkish company

 

USS Jason Dunham replenishment-at-sea with the Spanish Navy's A-15 combat supply ship (BAC) "Cantabria", with USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), on the port side.

https://www.outono.net/elentir/2024/11/21/the-simultaneous-replenishment-of-two-us-destroyers-by-a-spanish-ship/ 

This day in 1944, Corvette HMCS Shawinigan was attacked and sunk by a U-Boat in the Cabot Strait, off Canada with the loss of all 85 crew members.

 

HMS Chichester, HMAS Voyager and HMNZS Royalist, Fremantle. 1959.

 

USS Chancellorville (CG 76) coming alongside USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Philippine Sea, 2022.

 

Is the Royal Navy in a terminal or temporary decline?

https://www.navylookout.com/is-the-royal-navy-in-a-terminal-or-temporary-decline/ 

Spanish Navy Santa Maria-class ASW frigate ESPS Navarra (F85) coming into Cartagena, Spain - November 22, 2024

 

On this day in 1975, the cruiser USS Belknap and carrier USS John F. Kennedy collided, sparking a fire that caused the Belknap's aluminum superstructure to collapse. The incident contributed to the Navy's decision to revert to all-steel construction for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.