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USS Pittsburgh en route to Guam after losing her bow in a typhoon.
On 4 June, Pittsburgh began to fight a typhoon which by early next day had increased to 70-knot (130 km/h) winds and 100-foot (30 m) waves. Shortly after her starboard scout plane had been lifted off its catapult and dashed onto the deck by the wind, Pittsburgh's second deck buckled, her bow structure thrust upward, and then the front fell off. However, not a man was lost. Still fighting the storm, and manoeuvring to avoid being rammed by the drifting bow-structure, Pittsburgh was held quarter-on to the seas by engine manipulations while the forward bulkhead was shored. After a seven-hour battle, the storm subsided, and Pittsburgh proceeded at 6 knots (11 km/h) to Guam, arriving on 10 June. Her bow, nicknamed "McKeesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), was later salvaged by the tugboat Munsee and brought into Guam. The 104-foot section of bow broke off owing to poor plate welds at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in April 1943.
With a false bow, Pittsburgh left Guam on 24 June bound for Puget Sound Navy Yard, arriving 16 July. Still under repair at war's end, she was placed in commission in reserve on 12 March 1946 and decommissioned on 7 March 1947. The typhoon damage also earned her the nickname "Longest Ship in the World" as thousands of miles separated the bow and stern.
USS Baltimore (CA-68) being launched at the Fore River shipyard, July 28, 1942
USS Massachusetts (BB-59) underway, most probably after her refit at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), circa in July 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22.
USS Pittsburgh en route to Guam after losing her bow in a typhoon.
On 4 June, Pittsburgh began to fight a typhoon which by early next day had increased to 70-knot (130 km/h) winds and 100-foot (30 m) waves. Shortly after her starboard scout plane had been lifted off its catapult and dashed onto the deck by the wind, Pittsburgh's second deck buckled, her bow structure thrust upward, and then the front fell off. However, not a man was lost. Still fighting the storm, and manoeuvring to avoid being rammed by the drifting bow-structure, Pittsburgh was held quarter-on to the seas by engine manipulations while the forward bulkhead was shored. After a seven-hour battle, the storm subsided, and Pittsburgh proceeded at 6 knots (11 km/h) to Guam, arriving on 10 June. Her bow, nicknamed "McKeesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), was later salvaged by the tugboat Munsee and brought into Guam. The 104-foot section of bow broke off owing to poor plate welds at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in April 1943.
With a false bow, Pittsburgh left Guam on 24 June bound for Puget Sound Navy Yard, arriving 16 July. Still under repair at war's end, she was placed in commission in reserve on 12 March 1946 and decommissioned on 7 March 1947. The typhoon damage also earned her the nickname "Longest Ship in the World" as thousands of miles separated the bow and stern.
USS Baltimore (CA-68) being launched at the Fore River shipyard, July 28, 1942
USS Massachusetts (BB-59) underway, most probably after her refit at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), circa in July 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22.
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Light cruiser HMS Edinburgh
Heavy cruiser HMS York seen sometime before her loss off Crete in March 1941.
Captain-class frigate HMS Braithwaite coming in to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, from a successful hunt during which time the 10th Escort Group accounted for two probable U Boat sinkings and one possible. 20 - 21 February 1945
Light cruiser HMS Edinburgh
Heavy cruiser HMS York seen sometime before her loss off Crete in March 1941.
Captain-class frigate HMS Braithwaite coming in to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, from a successful hunt during which time the 10th Escort Group accounted for two probable U Boat sinkings and one possible. 20 - 21 February 1945
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RN:
August 28th 1982: HMS Illustrious (front) relieves HMS Invincible (back) on station in the Falklands, providing CAP as part of Operation Monkey. This famous photo proves beyond all doubt that Invincible was neither sunk or damaged in the war, as the junta frequently claimed. In fact, there are photos of her throughout the war which prove this conspiracy theory to be false
August 28th 1982: HMS Illustrious (front) relieves HMS Invincible (back) on station in the Falklands, providing CAP as part of Operation Monkey. This famous photo proves beyond all doubt that Invincible was neither sunk or damaged in the war, as the junta frequently claimed. In fact, there are photos of her throughout the war which prove this conspiracy theory to be false
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RN:
HMS Boadicea a Bacchante-Class Corvette launched in 1875, unknown date
HMS London 90-guns, possibly during her time on anti-slavery duties around Zanzibar, c. 1876
HMS Partridge at the Columbian Exposition, c. 1893, she was a composite screw gunboat launched at Devonport Dockyard on 10 May 1888 and sold in 1909.
HMS Phoenix, lead ship of her class of Sloops foundered beside a coaling pier in Hong Kong after a typhoon, c. 1906
HMS Victory on a crisp autumn day
HMS Boadicea a Bacchante-Class Corvette launched in 1875, unknown date
HMS London 90-guns, possibly during her time on anti-slavery duties around Zanzibar, c. 1876
HMS Partridge at the Columbian Exposition, c. 1893, she was a composite screw gunboat launched at Devonport Dockyard on 10 May 1888 and sold in 1909.
HMS Phoenix, lead ship of her class of Sloops foundered beside a coaling pier in Hong Kong after a typhoon, c. 1906
HMS Victory on a crisp autumn day
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HMS Montagu was a Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship. During wireless telegraphy experiments on 30th May 1906, she ran aground off Lundy Island. Repeated attempts to refloat the ship failed, and she proved to be a total loss. She was ultimately broken up in situ.
Sister ship HMS Albermarle
The catwalk allowed salvage crews to board the vessel in all weather conditions.
Montagu aground, c. 1907
HMS Montagu was a Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship. During wireless telegraphy experiments on 30th May 1906, she ran aground off Lundy Island. Repeated attempts to refloat the ship failed, and she proved to be a total loss. She was ultimately broken up in situ.
Sister ship HMS Albermarle
The catwalk allowed salvage crews to board the vessel in all weather conditions.
Montagu aground, c. 1907
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Australia:
HMVS Nelson 42 guns, formerly 126 guns.
Originally cut down to two decks and lengthened along the lines of HMS London with 89 guns, her armament was further reduced when she was sold as a training ship (and coastal defence ship) to Victoria.
Eventually she would be further razed to a single deck, and reduced to a single mast.
She would then be sold to spend her remaining days as a coal hulk.
HMS Nelson in original form
HMVS Nelson between 1870 and 1879
In 1898, as cut down to a single deck
HMVS Nelson 42 guns, formerly 126 guns.
Originally cut down to two decks and lengthened along the lines of HMS London with 89 guns, her armament was further reduced when she was sold as a training ship (and coastal defence ship) to Victoria.
Eventually she would be further razed to a single deck, and reduced to a single mast.
She would then be sold to spend her remaining days as a coal hulk.
HMS Nelson in original form
HMVS Nelson between 1870 and 1879
In 1898, as cut down to a single deck
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India:
INS Vikramaditya at the drydock in Sevmash during its refurbishment
It's actually not a proper drydock(you can see the bed is just mud) but a lagoon that was originally created for testing the Typhoon class submarines that Sevmash built.
It was converted into a crude drydock for the Vikramaditya because there were few other facilities in Russia that could dock a ship of this size.
This space is now being used for the refurbishment of the Kirov class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov.
INS Vikramaditya at the drydock in Sevmash during its refurbishment
It's actually not a proper drydock(you can see the bed is just mud) but a lagoon that was originally created for testing the Typhoon class submarines that Sevmash built.
It was converted into a crude drydock for the Vikramaditya because there were few other facilities in Russia that could dock a ship of this size.
This space is now being used for the refurbishment of the Kirov class cruiser Admiral Nakhimov.
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Italy:
Launch of the battleship Giulio Cesare, Ansaldo shipyard, Genoa, 15 October 1911
Navigatori-class destroyer Antonio Da Noli during its major refit, spring of 1939, Arsenale di La Spezia
Battleships Giulio Cesare (foreground) and Conte di Cavour (background) during a visit to Malta, between 21 and 24 June 1938
Battleship 'Roma' showing her main and secondary armament.
Launch of the battleship Giulio Cesare, Ansaldo shipyard, Genoa, 15 October 1911
Navigatori-class destroyer Antonio Da Noli during its major refit, spring of 1939, Arsenale di La Spezia
Battleships Giulio Cesare (foreground) and Conte di Cavour (background) during a visit to Malta, between 21 and 24 June 1938
Battleship 'Roma' showing her main and secondary armament.
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USS Bear was a dual steam-powered and sailing ship built with six-inch (15.2 cm)-thick sides which had a long life in various cold-water and ice-filled environs. She was a forerunner of modern icebreakers and had a diverse service life. According to the United States Coast Guard official website, Bear is described as "probably the most famous ship in the history of the Coast Guard."
Built in Scotland in 1874 as a steamer for sealing, she was owned and operated out of Newfoundland for ten years. In the mid-1880s, she took part in the search for the Greely Expedition. Captained by Michael Healy of the United States Revenue Cutter Service (later part of the U.S. Coast Guard), she worked the 20,000-mile coastline of Alaska. She later assisted with relief efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Her services also included the second expedition of Admiral Richard E. Byrd to Antarctica, and again to the southernmost continent in 1941 to evacuate Americans at the beginning of World War II. She later served in patrol duty off the coast of Greenland for the United States Navy. Between some of these missions, she was a museum ship in Oakland, California and starred in the 1930 film version of Jack London's The Sea-Wolf.
After World War II, Bear was returned to use again as a sealing vessel. Finally, in 1963, 89 years after she had been built, while being towed to a stationary assignment as a floating restaurant in Philadelphia, Bear foundered and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean about 100 miles (160 km) east of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia.
USRC Bear in 1910
USS Bear (AG-29) pictured in Antarctic waters during operations with the U.S. Antarctic Service. Note the aircraft on the ship. "One of two ships that supported the 1933-1935 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Bear was built in Scotland in 1874, and purchased by the U.S. Navy ten years later specifically for use in the rescue of members of the Greeley expedition in the Arctic. Along with another ship, Thetis, she rescued six survivors on 23 June 1884. Transferred to the Revenue Cutter Service (later U.S. Coast Guard), she served until 1929, making 34 voyages to Alaskan and Arctic waters. She was sold to the City of Oakland, California, in 1929 for use as a museum. After participating in the Byrd expedition of 1933-1935, during which she was known by the name Bear of Oakland, the ship was repurchased by the Navy in 1939. Commissioned as Bear (AG 29), she made two voyages to the Antarctic as part of the U.S. Antarctic Service and subsequently operated with the Northeast Greenland Patrol until decommisioned in 1944." (NMNA)
USS Bear was a dual steam-powered and sailing ship built with six-inch (15.2 cm)-thick sides which had a long life in various cold-water and ice-filled environs. She was a forerunner of modern icebreakers and had a diverse service life. According to the United States Coast Guard official website, Bear is described as "probably the most famous ship in the history of the Coast Guard."
Built in Scotland in 1874 as a steamer for sealing, she was owned and operated out of Newfoundland for ten years. In the mid-1880s, she took part in the search for the Greely Expedition. Captained by Michael Healy of the United States Revenue Cutter Service (later part of the U.S. Coast Guard), she worked the 20,000-mile coastline of Alaska. She later assisted with relief efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Her services also included the second expedition of Admiral Richard E. Byrd to Antarctica, and again to the southernmost continent in 1941 to evacuate Americans at the beginning of World War II. She later served in patrol duty off the coast of Greenland for the United States Navy. Between some of these missions, she was a museum ship in Oakland, California and starred in the 1930 film version of Jack London's The Sea-Wolf.
After World War II, Bear was returned to use again as a sealing vessel. Finally, in 1963, 89 years after she had been built, while being towed to a stationary assignment as a floating restaurant in Philadelphia, Bear foundered and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean about 100 miles (160 km) east of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia.
USRC Bear in 1910
USS Bear (AG-29) pictured in Antarctic waters during operations with the U.S. Antarctic Service. Note the aircraft on the ship. "One of two ships that supported the 1933-1935 Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Bear was built in Scotland in 1874, and purchased by the U.S. Navy ten years later specifically for use in the rescue of members of the Greeley expedition in the Arctic. Along with another ship, Thetis, she rescued six survivors on 23 June 1884. Transferred to the Revenue Cutter Service (later U.S. Coast Guard), she served until 1929, making 34 voyages to Alaskan and Arctic waters. She was sold to the City of Oakland, California, in 1929 for use as a museum. After participating in the Byrd expedition of 1933-1935, during which she was known by the name Bear of Oakland, the ship was repurchased by the Navy in 1939. Commissioned as Bear (AG 29), she made two voyages to the Antarctic as part of the U.S. Antarctic Service and subsequently operated with the Northeast Greenland Patrol until decommisioned in 1944." (NMNA)
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Imperial Japan:
Destroyer Namikaze circa 1925
Aircraft carrier Hōshō with her extended and widened flight deck.
Hōshō as completed in December 1922
During World War II, Hōshō participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 in a secondary role. After the battle, the carrier resumed her training role in Japanese home waters for the duration of the conflict and survived the war with only minor damage from air attacks. She was used as a repatriation transport after the war, making nine trips to bring some 40,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to Japan from overseas locations. Hōshō was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1946
Destroyer Namikaze circa 1925
Aircraft carrier Hōshō with her extended and widened flight deck.
Hōshō as completed in December 1922
During World War II, Hōshō participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 in a secondary role. After the battle, the carrier resumed her training role in Japanese home waters for the duration of the conflict and survived the war with only minor damage from air attacks. She was used as a repatriation transport after the war, making nine trips to bring some 40,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to Japan from overseas locations. Hōshō was scrapped in Japan beginning in 1946
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Imperial Germany:
SMS Hindenburg at anchor at Scapa Flow 1919
SMS Hindenburg was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the third ship of the Derfflinger class, built to a slightly modified design. She carried the same battery of eight 30.5 cm (12 in) guns, but in improved turrets that allowed them to fire further. The ship was also slightly larger and faster than her two sister ships. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes, as well as Supreme Commander of the German armies from 1916. The ship was the last capital ship of any type built for the German navy during World War I.
Hindenburg was commissioned late in the war and as a result had a brief service career. The ship took part in a handful of short fleet operations as the flagship of I Scouting Group in 1917–18, though saw no major action. The proposed final sortie of the fleet in the last weeks of the war came to nothing when the crews of the capital ships mutinied. Hindenburg was subsequently interned with the rest of the German battlecruisers at Scapa Flow in November 1918. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the ships be scuttled on 21 June 1919. Hindenburg was the last of the ships to sink. She was raised in 1930 and broken up for scrap over the following two years.
SMS Hindenburg at anchor at Scapa Flow 1919
SMS Hindenburg was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the third ship of the Derfflinger class, built to a slightly modified design. She carried the same battery of eight 30.5 cm (12 in) guns, but in improved turrets that allowed them to fire further. The ship was also slightly larger and faster than her two sister ships. She was named in honor of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the victor of the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of the Masurian Lakes, as well as Supreme Commander of the German armies from 1916. The ship was the last capital ship of any type built for the German navy during World War I.
Hindenburg was commissioned late in the war and as a result had a brief service career. The ship took part in a handful of short fleet operations as the flagship of I Scouting Group in 1917–18, though saw no major action. The proposed final sortie of the fleet in the last weeks of the war came to nothing when the crews of the capital ships mutinied. Hindenburg was subsequently interned with the rest of the German battlecruisers at Scapa Flow in November 1918. Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the ships be scuttled on 21 June 1919. Hindenburg was the last of the ships to sink. She was raised in 1930 and broken up for scrap over the following two years.
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