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The U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge transits the South China Sea.
130612-N-NN332-023 SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 12, 2013) The U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge transits the South China Sea.
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USS Trenton (CL-11) was an Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named for the city of Trenton, New Jersey.
USS Trenton (CL-11)She spent most of her pre-war career moving between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Trenton joined the Special Service Squadron in 1934, for a good-will tour of Latin America. In May 1939, she would join Squadron 40-T in protecting American interests during the Spanish Civil War and not return to the US until July 1940, when she carried the royal family of Luxembourg, fleeing…
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USS Platte (AO-24) was a Cimarron-class oiler serving with the United States Navy, named for the 1836 Platte Purchase that included the Platte Rivers in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska.
USS PLATTE – 1942.
Her memorial in Platte County, Missouri honors all four rivers that share the name recorded by Lewis and Clark in 1803.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Platte_(AO-24)
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Amazing photograph of RFA Grey Rover at South Georgia 10 October 2005
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Amazing photograph of RFA Grey Rover at South Georgia 10 October 2005
Amazing photograph of RFA Grey Rover at South Georgia 10 October 2005. Taken by Chief Officer Chris Locke and courtesy of Capt. Shaun Jones. Posted by Russel Priest
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USS Tempest (PC-2) is the second of the Cyclone-class of United States Navy coastal patrol ships, named for various weather phenomena.
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New Zealand Defence Force provides support for Solomon Islands election
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HMS Indefatigable (R10) in Wellington Harbor- New Zealand, during November 1945
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HMS MARTIN 1942, was an M-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched at the Tyneside yard of Vickers-Armstrongs on 12 December 1940. She had a busy but brief wartime career, being sunk by the German submarine U-431 on 10 November 1942 off Algiers.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Martin_(G44)
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Royal Navy’s heavy cruiser HMS Exeter taken by photographer Ernest ‘Red’ Hallen.Hallen managed to capture the ship from the Gamboa signal station, Panama, on 8th March, 1935, as the cruiser was returning to Bermuda from a goodwill trip along the west coast of South America.
A scaled-down version of the Country class cruisers, the York class Exeter carried six 8-inch guns and these were put into play several years later when the 8,390-ton ship took part in action against the German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the River Plate. The British cruiser was sunk on 1st March, 1942, by Japanese torpedoes off Bawean Island.
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HMAS Canberra (I33/D33) 1932
HMAS Canberra (I33/D33), named after the Australian capital city of Canberra, was a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class of County-class cruisers. Constructed in Scotland during the mid-1920s, the ship was commissioned in 1928, and spent the first part of her career primarily operating in Australian waters, with some deployments to the China Station.At the start of…
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USS Cowpens CV-25/CVL-25/AVT-1
July 17, 1943 USS Cowpens CVL-25.July 17, 1943 USS Cowpens CVL-25.August 31, 1944 USS Cowpens CVL-25 and USS Independence CVL-22 off Palaus.May 12, 1945 USS Cowpens CVL-25 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
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HMAS Australia, Sydney 1917
HMAS Australia, Sydney 1917
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HMAS Success and HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156)
HMAS Success and HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156)
HMAS Success
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HMAS Success (OR 304) was a Durance-class multi-product replenishment oiler that previously served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
HMAS Success Built by Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company in Sydney, Australia, during the 1980s, she is the only ship of the class to be constructed outside France, and the only one to not originally serve in the Marine Nationale (French Navy). The ship was part of the Australian contribution to the 1991 Gulf War, and was deployed to East Timor in response to incidents in 1999 and 2006. The…
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Chinese Warships, Aircraft Operate Near Japan, Taiwan
DZIRHAN MAHADZIR MARCH 22, 2024 5:11 PM
Chinese warships underway on March 18, 2024. Japan MoD Photo
Several People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships have been sailing near Japan this week, including a pair of frigates that conducted a cruise around Japanese islands before sailing near Taiwan, according to releases by the Joint Staff Office (JSO) of Japan’s Ministry of Defense.
On Friday,…
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