USS Canberra (CA-70), steaming toward the San Francisco Naval Shipyard to begin inactivation work, circa 1 October 1969. The San Francisco Bay Bridge is in the background.

 

USS Boxer (LHD 4) Wasp-class amphibious assault ship at Bravo Pier in San Diego - January 24, 2025.

 

Swedish Warships have intercepted and boarded two merchant vessels suspected of damaging subsea communications cable between Latvia and Sweden on Sunday. Swedish authorities have detained the bulk carrier MV Vezhen. Finish & Estonian warships tracking LNG tanker MV Pskov.

 

UK to sell HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark to Brazil, for a reportably give away £20m, raising concerns over amphibious capability.

https://armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/uk-to-sell-hms-albion-and-hms-bulwark-to-brazil-raising-concerns-over-amphibious-capability  

Turkish frigate TCG Salihreis.

 

Unforgiving environment" faces HMS Puncher, Blazer, Trumpeter and Charger as ships set for Arctic.

 

USS Cape St. George (CG 71) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser in Everett, Washington - January 25, 2025

 

The decommissioned ship HMS Monmouth to be auctioned off, as Turkish scrapyard companies bid for the Type 23 frigate, after laying idle for 4 years.

 

Not many ex RN can say this now, but these are two of my old ships. Frigate, F109, HMS Leander, and WWII cruiser, C35, HMS Belfast.

 

USS Lake Erie (CG 70) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser leaving Pearl Harbour - January 24, 2025, possibly for the last time.

 

At different stages of maintenance and refit periods in Portsmouth, HMS Duncan, HMS Defender and HMS Dauntless.

 

The Armada Arg replenishment ship ARA Patagonia (B-1) carried out operations with the aviso ARA Puerto Argentino (A-21) near Bahía Blanca as part of the initial operations for the 2024-2025 Antarctic season.

 

After setting off on December 11th, three thousand miles and 46 days, the all-female rowing team HMS Oardacious the Valkyries have finished the World’s Toughest Row.

 

On 6th January, in 1945, USS Mississippi (BB-41) was hit by a kamikaze during the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf. While en route to Pearl Harbor for repairs, the skipper developed a plan to upgrade the guns and add more A.A. weapons to all available deck space. The plan was so practical that the Navy was able to quickly implement it. The Mississippi returned to service three months later with a 300% increase in firepower.

 

Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser graveyard in Philadelphia - January 13, 2025

 

USS Topeka (SSN 754) in dry dock 3 years ago.

 

German Navy Frankenthal-class Class 332C minehunter (MHC) FGS Weilheim (M1059) coming into Kiel, Germany - January 23, 2025.

 

USCG Great Lakes. ARISTA Detroit and Cutter Neah Bay (WTGB 105) arrived on-scene this morning to assist with the ice operations and overflights to monitor the situation.

 

The 7th Astute-class submarine is to be named HMS Achilles, as approved by The King. The name is appropriate in light of the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ Day. Six ships have previously borne the name, earning six battle honours, including the River Plate and Okinawa. In a surprising announcement on Sunday evening, the Royal Navy announced their name change.

 

In 1983, the destroyer USS Fife (DD-991) was slightly damaged in a collision with a Soviet frigate that was attempting to approach USS Ranger (CV-61) in the Arabian Sea. The captain of the Razyaschy claimed he signaled that his ship's steering had failed, but the U.S. Navy stated it was a common excuse used by the Soviets to get close to other vessels.

 

HMS Albion in Fremantle. 1959.

 

USS Reuben James (FFG 57) and USS Tucson (SSN 770) IN 1999.

 

Refit costs for HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark were revealed. In response to a parliamentary question from Mark Francois, Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has disclosed the costs associated with refits for amphibious assault ships HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark since 2010. Maria Eagle, Minister of State for Defence, provided the figures, stating: “The total cost of refits to HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark since 2010 is £132.7 million. This excludes HMS Bulwark’s 2022-2025 refit, which was estimated to cost £72.1 million.”The case of HMS Bulwark is particularly notable. The vessel’s planned refit, intended to extend its operational life, was halted when the ship was retired before the work was completed. Eagle added: “As HMS Bulwark was retired before her refit was completed, the refit costs are under review.”

 

Saab Enforcer 3.1 (modified Saab CB-90 amphibious landing craft) operating around San Diego - January 23, 2025.

 

The Brazilian navy frigate BNS Greenhalgh (F-46), ex HMS Battleaxe, moored alongside the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless (D-33) at Naval Air Station Key West for UNITAS Atlantic Phase 2012.

 

December in 1856, HMS Resolute, which was abandoned in the Arctic after a failed mission to find HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, was found by a US Whaler. She was returned to UK by USA. When she paid off in 1879 Queen Victoria had a desk made which was presented to USA and is now the desk in the Oval Office.

 

HMS Tamar dry docked at Seatrium, Tuas Boulevard shipyard in Singapore.

 

USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ship leaving Yokosuka, Japan - January 21, 2025.

 

Virginia-class attack submarine the USS John Warner departs HMNB Gibraltar earlier today.

 

4 of the South Korean Navy Batch 1, Fast Patrol Boats.

 

A £225k grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund has been secured for HMS Wellington. The ship is considered of local, national and international importance as a reminder of the longest-fought battle in World War 2. The future of the last surviving dedicated Battle of the Atlantic convoy escort ship has been secured thanks to a grant of £225k from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

 

Royal Navy submarine diplomacy: sending a warning to Russian ship Yantar in the Irish sea.

 

Another image of Ex-USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), before her final journey.

 

HMS Trent was back into Dry Dock in Malta, at Palumbo Shipyard.

 

Heavy nuclear missile cruisers "Peter the Great", "Admiral Ushakov", winter 1996-1997.

 

USS Rhode Island (BB-17).

 

1. RFA Proteus gets up close and personal with the Yantar in the Irish Sea. 2. A submarine thought to be HMS Anson. surfaced in the Irish Sea, after being authorised, close to Russian spy ship operating close to the UK shores, after shadowing undetected. Yantar has now been reported to have fled the area.

 

HMS Somerset shadowing Yantar, the Russian seabed spy ship in the English Channel.