HMS Smiter and HMS Example alongside Saint Nazaire WWII submarine pens today for the 83rd-anniversary commemorations of the WWII Commando raid.

 

On March 27, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially launched the Perm, a fourth-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine belonging to the Yasen-M class. Named after the city of Perm in the Urals, it is the sixth vessel in the Yasen/Yasen-M series and the first Russian nuclear submarine to be officially equipped with the 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missile as a standard feature. The submarine was laid down on July 29, 2016, at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk. Its launch marks a significant stage in the Russian Navy’s ongoing shipbuilding program. The Perm is scheduled to enter service with the Russian Navy in 2026.

 

L to R. USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). USS Pensacola (CA-24) and USS New Orleans (CA-32) tied up at Pearl Harbour 1943.

 

HMS Glasgow (F88). Type 26 frigate is an advanced anti-submarine warfare vessel to protect the UK's nuclear deterent, and aircraft carriers.

 

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully launched future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) today, the third Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at the shipyard.

 

Britain to fit laser weapons on four warships by 2027.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-to-fit-laser-weapons-on-four-warships-by-2027/

 

HMS Hood visiting Hawaii, June 1924.

 

Oldest aircraft carrier USS Nimitz departs for what is likely to be its final deployment. Read more at:

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-03-23/uss-nimitz-likely-last-deployment-17237534.html Source - Stars and Stripes

 

HMS Mersey at Glen Mallan yesterday.

 

USNS Solderman (T-AKR-317), Watson-class vehicle carrier / container ship.

 

The Royal Navy’s anti-submarine sentry – the Towed Array Patrol Ship's, Type 23 and Merlin .

 

USS New Jersey (BB-62) was seen passing through Pedro Miguel locks on the Panama Canal in 1968.

 

M240B machine gun aboard USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) in the Pacific Ocean.

 

The UK’s three new Fleet Solid Support (FSS) ships are expected to enter service by 2032, according to a government response to a parliamentary question from James Cartlidge MP. Maria Eagle, Minister of State for Defence, provided an update on several major Royal Navy shipbuilding programmes, stating that “each of the Ships Programmes are progressing” and confirming expected timelines: Type 26 frigates are set to enter service between 2028 and 2035. Five Type 31 frigates are planned to be operational by the early 2030s. Three Fleet Solid Support ships will be delivered by 2032.

 

HMS Monmouth before she was auctioned off to a Turkish scrapyard.

 

US Coastguard accepted 59th fast response cutter (FRC), Earl Cunningham, the second of three FRC's homeported in Kodiak.

 

On 17th March 2025, HNoMs Otto Sverdrup (right) and HNoMs Maud of the Norwegian navy, conduct a Replenishment at Sea and Deck Landing Training with 815 NAS Wildcat. UK MOD photo.

 

HMS Sutherland alongside in Portland yesterday with RFA Mounts Bay.

 

Units of the Southern Patrol Division (DVPU) carried out naval training and coastal reconnaissance in the waters of the Beagle Channel. The fast boat ARA “Indómita” and the patrol boats ARA “Baradero” and ARA “Concepción del Uruguay” participated.

 

On this day 150 years ago in 1875 the Royal Navy Corvette, HMS Challenger discovered the deepest point of the earth's ocean in the Mariana Trench. Named the Challenger Deep, the depth was measured by line at 26,850 ft, and in 1952, the survey ship HMS Challenger measured it at 35,760 ft.

 

PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 31, 2016) Sailors aboard the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) gather on the port bridge wing as the ship prepares for a replenishment-at-sea. Germantown, attached to Expeditionary Strike Group 7, is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.

 

A tired looking Italian Navy Maestrale-class anti-submarine frigate ITS Grecale (F571) in Valletta, Malta - March 16, 2025.

 

USS Dewey (DDG 105) conducts a close-in weapon system drill during a regularly scheduled deployment.

 

USS Kitty Hawk and its Battle Group. Front row, left to right: frigate USS STEIN (FF-1065), guided missile cruiser HALSEY (CG-23) frigate USS BARBEY (FF-1088); second row, guided missile destroyer USS CALLAGHAN (DDG-994), ammunition ship USS MOUNT HOOD (AE-29), KITTY HAWK, combat stores ship USS MARS (AFS-1), and guided missile frigate USS VANDEGRIFT (FFG-48) with the fleet oiler USS WILLAMETTE (AO-180) following. Late 1980's.

 

Time runs out for Monmouth - the frigate is due to depart this week for the breakers.

 

The crew of the British Colossus-class light aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68) on deck for an inspection by Field Marshal Earl Alexander, the British Defense Minister, on 14 June 1952. Ocean was at the time off the Korean coast– a peninsula where she was highly active some 70 years ago– and she has Hawker Sea Furys of 802 Squadron and Fairey Fireflys of 825 Squadron aboard. It looks like the light cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) is off her stern.

 

The Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Belfast (C35) approaching the aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68) off Korea, before the transfer of RADM Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Flag Officer, Second in Command, Far East Station from his flagship Belfast to Ocean to observe air operations against targets in north-west Korea. Served on Belfast 61/62.

 

On this day in 1984, K-314 collided with USS Kitty Hawk after the Soviet sub surfaced directly in front of the carrier. K-314 suffered significant damage, including losing a piece of a propeller blade embedded in the Kitty Hawk and chunks of the sub's anechoic coating.

 

The RN has changed the name of the future amphibious warfare vessel from the "Multi-Role Support Ship" to "Multi-Role Strike Ship" (MRSS). This is a sensible change reflecting the primarily offensive mission of these vessels. The programme is currently in the concept phase and needs to be funded in the coming SDR.

 

On this day in 1961, USS Permit (SSN 594) gets her sonar sphere fitted at Mare Island.

 

Italian MAS (Motoscafo Armato Silurante) Torpedo motorboat, carried two Torpedoes depth charges, machine guns and occasionally 37 or 22 mm cannon.

 

Royal Navy warships and helicopters watched every move of a Russian task group returning from Syria as it sailed through the English Channel and North Sea towards the Baltic. HMS Somerset, HMS Cattistock, RFA Tidesurge and a P-8 Poseidon were also involved in the operation.

 

USS Saratoga is probably the only warship to have a pink head. The startling pink bathroom resulted from crewmen applying a coat of white paint before the red primer was dry. Navy regs authorized light pastel colours, leaving the head pink for a few years.