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RN:
Town Class light cruiser HMS Belfast is launched at Harland and Wolff on the 17th March 1938.
The Battlecruiser Squadron, consisting of HMS Hood (center), HMS Renown (left), and HMS Repulse (far left) are framed under the guns of HMS Rodney; anchored in Scapa Flow, early 1941
HMS Victorious (R38) during operations with the U.S. Navy Task Force 36 in the Solomons, between May and September 1943. The photo was taken probably at Noumea, New Caledonia.
Town Class light cruiser HMS Belfast is launched at Harland and Wolff on the 17th March 1938.
The Battlecruiser Squadron, consisting of HMS Hood (center), HMS Renown (left), and HMS Repulse (far left) are framed under the guns of HMS Rodney; anchored in Scapa Flow, early 1941
HMS Victorious (R38) during operations with the U.S. Navy Task Force 36 in the Solomons, between May and September 1943. The photo was taken probably at Noumea, New Caledonia.
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France:
Transport Vinh-Long transits the Suez Canal, c. 1880-90
Vinh-Long, a 5500-ton screw steamship, was built in 1881 as one of several military transports needed to support France's colonial empire. She was employed as a hospital ship during the First World War, returning to her troopship role following the November 1918 Armistice. On 16 November 1922, while carrying 495 persons, including civilians as well as military and naval personnel, Vinh-Long caught fire in the Sea of Marmora, Turkey. Despite the efforts of her crew, the fire reached her after magazines, causing explosions that rapidly spread the conflagration throughout the ship. Despite the severity of the blaze, 482 of her passengers and crew were rescued by USS Bainbridge (DD-246). Thirteen people, among them two women and four children, lost their lives in the fire and subsequent efforts to abandon ship, while another man died of exposure on board Bainbridge.
Ironclad battleship Redoutable, she was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material
Transport Vinh-Long transits the Suez Canal, c. 1880-90
Vinh-Long, a 5500-ton screw steamship, was built in 1881 as one of several military transports needed to support France's colonial empire. She was employed as a hospital ship during the First World War, returning to her troopship role following the November 1918 Armistice. On 16 November 1922, while carrying 495 persons, including civilians as well as military and naval personnel, Vinh-Long caught fire in the Sea of Marmora, Turkey. Despite the efforts of her crew, the fire reached her after magazines, causing explosions that rapidly spread the conflagration throughout the ship. Despite the severity of the blaze, 482 of her passengers and crew were rescued by USS Bainbridge (DD-246). Thirteen people, among them two women and four children, lost their lives in the fire and subsequent efforts to abandon ship, while another man died of exposure on board Bainbridge.
Ironclad battleship Redoutable, she was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material
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Italy:
Battleship Vittorio Veneto in the morning of 29 March 1941, sailing for Taranto after the Battle of Cape Matapan, visibly down by her stern
The damage suffered can be easily imagined by how the battleship is down by her stern, and by the Ro.43 floatplane still placed on the catapult that was shaken loose by the torpedo detonation.
The Vittorio Veneto, flagship of the Italian squadron involved in the ill-thought and ill-fated operation that culminated in the Cape Matapan shooting galley, was struck at 1520 h of 28 March by a torpedo launched by a Fairey Albacore of HMS Formidable's 829 Squadron. The torpedo, striking in the rudder area, ripped away the outer port propeller shaft and damaged the inner port one, and brought the battleship to a stop; however, despite a huge ingress of water (roughly four thousand tons), the bulkheads held and, using just the two starboard propellers (the inner port propeller might have been risked, but it was chosen not to), the Vittorio Veneto resumed sailing after fifteen minutes, at a rather impressive speed of 19 knots.
She would manage to reach Taranto, once more capable of housing a main squadron, at 1530 h, and was immediately put in the Ferrati drydock (as an anecdote, one of just three in the whole country large enough for her), just days after her sister ship Littorio had left it, having been fully repaired after the Taranto night.
Having succeeded in bringing the stricken battleship home, despite the damage caused (in a sensitive area, as the fate of HMS Prince of Wales would confirm months later) and despite further attempts of the Mediterranean Fleet to bag what it considered its most important prize, was a noteworthy achievement of her crew, her commander (Capitano di Vascello Giuseppe Sparzani) and her chief engineer (Colonnello del Genio Navale Ruggiero Vio). The huge safety margin of her engines proved a boon as well, as her starboard turbines were able to be pushed well beyond their nominal output.
As can been seen, the port outboard shaft is simply gone, along with it, and exposed but fortunately did not break the port inboard shaft - though its bearings did size up due to an ingress of seawater into the lubrication system. This same issue also forced the stoppage of the starboard inboard shaft, leaving the ship briefly running on just the starboard outboard shaft before reactivating it and picking up speed again.
Battleship Vittorio Veneto in the morning of 29 March 1941, sailing for Taranto after the Battle of Cape Matapan, visibly down by her stern
The damage suffered can be easily imagined by how the battleship is down by her stern, and by the Ro.43 floatplane still placed on the catapult that was shaken loose by the torpedo detonation.
The Vittorio Veneto, flagship of the Italian squadron involved in the ill-thought and ill-fated operation that culminated in the Cape Matapan shooting galley, was struck at 1520 h of 28 March by a torpedo launched by a Fairey Albacore of HMS Formidable's 829 Squadron. The torpedo, striking in the rudder area, ripped away the outer port propeller shaft and damaged the inner port one, and brought the battleship to a stop; however, despite a huge ingress of water (roughly four thousand tons), the bulkheads held and, using just the two starboard propellers (the inner port propeller might have been risked, but it was chosen not to), the Vittorio Veneto resumed sailing after fifteen minutes, at a rather impressive speed of 19 knots.
She would manage to reach Taranto, once more capable of housing a main squadron, at 1530 h, and was immediately put in the Ferrati drydock (as an anecdote, one of just three in the whole country large enough for her), just days after her sister ship Littorio had left it, having been fully repaired after the Taranto night.
Having succeeded in bringing the stricken battleship home, despite the damage caused (in a sensitive area, as the fate of HMS Prince of Wales would confirm months later) and despite further attempts of the Mediterranean Fleet to bag what it considered its most important prize, was a noteworthy achievement of her crew, her commander (Capitano di Vascello Giuseppe Sparzani) and her chief engineer (Colonnello del Genio Navale Ruggiero Vio). The huge safety margin of her engines proved a boon as well, as her starboard turbines were able to be pushed well beyond their nominal output.
As can been seen, the port outboard shaft is simply gone, along with it, and exposed but fortunately did not break the port inboard shaft - though its bearings did size up due to an ingress of seawater into the lubrication system. This same issue also forced the stoppage of the starboard inboard shaft, leaving the ship briefly running on just the starboard outboard shaft before reactivating it and picking up speed again.
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USN:
USS Arizona explodes as a bomb hits her forward magazine. Image taken from a hand held movie camera by an Army Doctor visiting the Solace (AH-5)
USS New Jersey (BB-62) bombarding Tinian Island, Marianas, 14-15 June 1944.
USS Arizona explodes as a bomb hits her forward magazine. Image taken from a hand held movie camera by an Army Doctor visiting the Solace (AH-5)
USS New Jersey (BB-62) bombarding Tinian Island, Marianas, 14-15 June 1944.
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USN & Italy:
The expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4), front, conducts a tracking exercise with the Italian navy frigate Federico Martinengo (F 596) in the Gulf of Guinea, Sept. 28, 2020. USN photo.
The expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4), front, conducts a tracking exercise with the Italian navy frigate Federico Martinengo (F 596) in the Gulf of Guinea, Sept. 28, 2020. USN photo.
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ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 29, 2020) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) steams in the Arabian Gulf, Sept. 29. Sterett is part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and Pacific through the Western Indian Ocean and three critical chokepoints to the free flow of global commerce. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Drace Wilson)
ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 29, 2020) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) steams in the Arabian Gulf, Sept. 29. Sterett is part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and Pacific through the Western Indian Ocean and three critical chokepoints to the free flow of global commerce. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Drace Wilson)
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RN, USN & Netherlands:
The Carrier Strike Group (CSG) comprises of:
HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Diamond
HMS Defender
HMS Northumberland
HMS Kent
USS The Sullivans
HNLMS Evertsen
RFA Tideforce
RFA Fort Victoria
With an RN submarine lurking in the deep
HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group from HMS Kent's flight deck.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, RFA Tideforce, HMS Defender
The Carrier Strike Group (CSG) comprises of:
HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Diamond
HMS Defender
HMS Northumberland
HMS Kent
USS The Sullivans
HNLMS Evertsen
RFA Tideforce
RFA Fort Victoria
With an RN submarine lurking in the deep
HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group from HMS Kent's flight deck.
HMS Queen Elizabeth, RFA Tideforce, HMS Defender
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Battleships of the RN Grand Fleet in the North Sea as they head out to meet the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland, 31 May 1916
HMS Defence (1907) showing stern 9.2 inch Mk XI guns. HMS Defence was sunk at Jutland
Battleships of the RN Grand Fleet in the North Sea as they head out to meet the German High Seas Fleet at Jutland, 31 May 1916
HMS Defence (1907) showing stern 9.2 inch Mk XI guns. HMS Defence was sunk at Jutland
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