RN:
June 13th 1982: By dusk, Sheffield class (Type 42) destroyer HMS Cardiff detects the flight of the incoming Argentine Canberra's and fires Sea Dart, scoring a direct hit and downing one of the bombers. Pilot Captain Pastran ejects, but Navigator Captain Casado is killed. The other bombers return to base. The last aircraft loss of the war.
USN:
Flight II Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) identifies a Russian naval vessel in the U.S. Second Fleet area of operations June 6, 2024.
Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers, Flight IIA Technology Insertion USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) and Flight IIA USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) patrol together in the Middle Pacific. June 2024
RN:
Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse in drydock, early 1939
Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleship HMS Revenge in early August 1939. (At this time, the battleship took part in the review of the fleet by George VI, August 9, 1939, Portsmouth)
County-class heavy cruiser HMS London after her 1939-41 reconstruction
A photograph taken from the bridge of V class destroyer HMS Viscount which gives a good idea of the difficult weather conditions while escorting a convoy during the Battle of the Atlantic. During this operation HMS Viscount and F class destroyer HMS Fame rammed and sank two German U-boats. February 1943
C-class light cruiser HMS Cardiff. 24 February 1943, Greenock, Scotland
USN:
Crew of the Iowa class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) man the rails as she passes under the Golden Gate Bridge on way to be recommissioned in San Francisco, October 5 1986
In an image taken by a Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) on a U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron (VF) 111 flown by the crew of Lieutenant Commander Rice and Lieutenant Old, the aircraft carriers USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), the battleships USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Missouri (BB-63), and their escorts pictured underway. Forming the Seventh Fleet Battle Force, the ships were participating in PACEX 1989. 14 October 1989
USN:
Caldwell class destroyer USS Manley (AG-28) as a high speed transport, off New York City, May 7, 1939
Fletcher-class destroyer USS Braine (DD-630) transfers wounded to name ship of the battleship class, USS New Mexico (BB-40) for immediate medical attention after being hit by a Japanese 152 mm shore battery off the shores of Tinian in the Mariana Islands on 14 June 1944
Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) moored in Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands, 18 May 1945.
RN:
Returned to Great Britain by the Soviets, Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (ex Arkhangelsk) at Rosyth, 1949. In May1944, the Royal Navy transferred Royal Sovereign to the Soviet Navy, which renamed her Arkhangelsk. She then escorted Arctic convoys into Kola until the end of the war. The Soviets returned the ship in 1949, after which she was broken up for scrap
USN:
Wickes class destroyer USS Maury (DD-100) probably in the Hudson River, New York on May 2 1927. While reclassified as a destroyer minelayer (DM-5) in July, 1920, she carried her former destroyer bow number through her active career.
USN:
A Sea Knight HH-46A (CH-46A modified for #USNavy SAR) over Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington Carver (SSBN 656) in the Mediterranean Sea on August 1, 1977.
USN & France:
SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 6, 2024) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), back, conducts a refueling-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198), middle, and Aquitaine-class frigate Bretagne (D 655), June 6, 2024.
RN:
Salisbury-class (Type 61) aircraft direction frigate HMS Lincoln (F99) tussling with an Icelandic Coast Guard gunboat during the "Cod Wars" in the 1970's.
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