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Thursday, February 27, 2025

USS Mahan (DDG 72), berthed in Norfolk this winter.


 

HMS Astute underway in 2009.


 

USS St. Louis (LCS 19) wrapped up a successful 8 month deployment to NAVSOUS4THFLT where it confiscated over $100 million worth of illicit contraband and supported Operation Southern Guard.


 

HMS Cleopatra in the Devonport frigate complex in 1977.


 

German submarine Wilhelm Bauer (originally designated U-2540) is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy (Kriegsmarine), completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished, and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960.



 

HMS Tamar leaves dry dock after completing her 5-year Lloyds recertification period at Seatrium Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore.


 

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The floating crane ship, US Crane Ship No.1, sitting in dry dock on 3 October 1925. The crane ship was undergoing repairs and refit at the Boston Navy Yard. The ship still carries her former name "Kearsarge" on her stern. Originally the battleship USS Kearsarge (BB-5) pre-dreadnought.


 

Exercise Joint Warrior 2008. HMS Ark Royal, HMS Bulwark, HMS Somerset and HMS Gloucester. R to L.


 

USS Delaware (SSN 791) Virginia-class Block III nuclear attack submarine in Eyjafjördur Fjord, Iceland - February 25, 2025.


 

Future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB-7) Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base coming into San Diego - February 25, 2025.


 

French navy conducted the first shock testing serial for several decades with the La Fayette-class frigate FS Courbet.

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The Royal Navy Mine and Threat Exploitation Group at RN MTXG use new uncrewed submersibles to identify and neutralise underwater threats.


 



Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Nearly all major surface combatants (7/8 frigates) of one of Latin America's most capable, professional, and modern Navies, the Armada Chile, are included in this photo, including the Type 22 Batch 2 frigate Almirante Williams ex HMS Sheffield, and 3 Type 23 frigates, ex HMS Norfolk, Marlborough and Grafton.


 

USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) conducted a pre-action calibration fire (PACFIRE) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, on January 26.


 

Operating around the waters of the UK, Defence Ukraine warships, the Chernihiv Cherkasy continue to train and practice with the Royal Navy.


 

HMS Portland was taken into number 6 covered dry Dock at the Frigate Support Centre in Devonport last week.


 

United Arab Emirates Navy Falaj 3-class offshore patrol vessel Altaf (P1634), and the new OPV Rabdan.


 

On this day in 1991, Type 42 Destroyer HMS Gloucester destroyed an Iraqi Silkworm missile bound for USS Missouri with her Sea Dart missile system during Op. Granby. The first Gulf War.


 

BAE Systems and Norwegian shipyard Hamek have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on Norway’s maritime defence requirements, a move that could bolster the UK’s bid to supply Type 26 frigates to the Royal Norwegian Navy.