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RN:
Briton-class HMS Druid during her time on the North American Station, c. 1880
HMS Druid was refitted in 1876, her armament increasing from 10 guns to 14 to match her sister Thetis.
Like many ships of this era, she saw no action, with the most noteworthy thing about her being she was the last ship built at Deptford Dockyard.
The Admiralty considered them completely obsolete within 15 years and sold them to be broken up.
Briton-class HMS Druid during her time on the North American Station, c. 1880
HMS Druid was refitted in 1876, her armament increasing from 10 guns to 14 to match her sister Thetis.
Like many ships of this era, she saw no action, with the most noteworthy thing about her being she was the last ship built at Deptford Dockyard.
The Admiralty considered them completely obsolete within 15 years and sold them to be broken up.
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Imperial Japan:
The three boats of the I-400-class submarine aircraft carriers side by side after the war
The I-400-class submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered. They also carried torpedoes for close-range combat.
The I-400 class was designed with the range to travel anywhere in the world and return. A fleet of 18 boats was planned in 1942, and work started on the first in January 1943 at the Kure, Hiroshima arsenal. Within a year the plan was scaled back to five, of which only three (I-400 at Kure, and I-401 and I-402 at Sasebo) were completed.
The three boats of the I-400-class submarine aircraft carriers side by side after the war
The I-400-class submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their destinations. They were designed to surface, launch their planes, then quickly dive again before they were discovered. They also carried torpedoes for close-range combat.
The I-400 class was designed with the range to travel anywhere in the world and return. A fleet of 18 boats was planned in 1942, and work started on the first in January 1943 at the Kure, Hiroshima arsenal. Within a year the plan was scaled back to five, of which only three (I-400 at Kure, and I-401 and I-402 at Sasebo) were completed.
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USN:
PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD, Wash. (March 5,2018) USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in Dry Dock 6 post dewatering at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., March 5, 2018. This is the beginning of a nine-month dry dock portion of the Nimitz’s Docking Planned Incremental Availability maintenance period. (PSNS & IMF photo by Thiep Van Nguyen II)
PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD, Wash. (March 5,2018) USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in Dry Dock 6 post dewatering at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., March 5, 2018. This is the beginning of a nine-month dry dock portion of the Nimitz’s Docking Planned Incremental Availability maintenance period. (PSNS & IMF photo by Thiep Van Nguyen II)
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USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Bagley (FF-1069) off the coast of California, April 15, 1983.
The Fulton-class submarine tender Orion (AS-18) services the Thomas Jefferson (SSN-618) on 15 August 1983. The Orion is berthed at the Italian island of Santo Stefano, located between the Sandinian coastal town of Palau and the island of La Maddalena.
USS Missouri on Sydney Harbour 1986.
USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Bagley (FF-1069) off the coast of California, April 15, 1983.
The Fulton-class submarine tender Orion (AS-18) services the Thomas Jefferson (SSN-618) on 15 August 1983. The Orion is berthed at the Italian island of Santo Stefano, located between the Sandinian coastal town of Palau and the island of La Maddalena.
USS Missouri on Sydney Harbour 1986.
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Italy:
Light cruiser Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta while in the port of Cádiz, Spain, behind her are the Soldati class destroyer Granatiere and another Italian destroyer.
An IMAM Ro.43 seaplane on its catapult aboard the heavy cruiser Bolzano, sometime after 1938
Light cruiser Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta while in the port of Cádiz, Spain, behind her are the Soldati class destroyer Granatiere and another Italian destroyer.
An IMAM Ro.43 seaplane on its catapult aboard the heavy cruiser Bolzano, sometime after 1938
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Germany:
The crew of the U-873 on the day of commissioning into the Kriegsmarine, in Bremen, March 1, 1944
Following the surrender of Germany, the United States Navy studied U-873 to improve United States submarine designs. U-873 is remembered for the controversial treatment of its crew as prisoners of war and the death of commanding officer Friedrich Steinhoff in a Boston jail cell.
Upon completion of training on 31 January 1945 U-873 was assigned to the 33rd U-boat Flotilla at Flensburg for war patrols to the Atlantic Ocean. U-873 departed from Kiel on 17 February 1945 and arrived in Horten Naval Base on 22 February. U-873 sailed from Horten on 21 March 1945 and reached Kristiansand the following day. U-873 sailed from Kristiansand on 30 March 1945 and was proceeding to an assigned operations area in the Caribbean Sea when Germany surrendered on 8 May. At 04:30 GMT on 11 May, U-873 surrendered to USS Vance of Escort Division 45 (CortDiv 45) while it was escorting convoy UGS 90 at 35°45′N 42°31′W. Vance placed a prize crew aboard U-873 and escorted the U-boat to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on 16 May. U-873 was placed in dry dock for a design study of the Type IXD2 class of U-boats by Portsmouth Naval Shipyard engineers; and was later transferred to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Following completion of trials, the U-boat was scrapped in 1948
Possessions of the crews of the U-boat had been scattered by the prize crews in the process of searching for intelligence information and evidence of sabotage. Upon arrival at Portsmouth the U-boat crews were sent to Portsmouth Naval Prison for interrogation by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Subsequent investigation concluded personal possessions of the U-boat crewmen were looted contrary to provisions of the Geneva Convention.
Following interrogation at Portsmouth Naval Prison, the handcuffed crew of U-873 was pelted with insults and garbage while marching through the streets of Boston to the Suffolk County Charles Street Jail to await transfer to a prisoner-of-war camp in Mississippi.
U-873 crewman Georg Seitz reported Steinhoff's (CO) face was bleeding and swollen when he returned to his cell after being questioned by a civilian ONI interrogator who ordered a husky United States Marine Corps guard to slap the officer. On 19 May 1945 Steinhoff bled to death in his Boston jail cell from wrist wounds, possibly inflicted with the broken lens of his sunglasses. He was buried in grave 934 at Fort Devens.
The crew of the U-873 on the day of commissioning into the Kriegsmarine, in Bremen, March 1, 1944
Following the surrender of Germany, the United States Navy studied U-873 to improve United States submarine designs. U-873 is remembered for the controversial treatment of its crew as prisoners of war and the death of commanding officer Friedrich Steinhoff in a Boston jail cell.
Upon completion of training on 31 January 1945 U-873 was assigned to the 33rd U-boat Flotilla at Flensburg for war patrols to the Atlantic Ocean. U-873 departed from Kiel on 17 February 1945 and arrived in Horten Naval Base on 22 February. U-873 sailed from Horten on 21 March 1945 and reached Kristiansand the following day. U-873 sailed from Kristiansand on 30 March 1945 and was proceeding to an assigned operations area in the Caribbean Sea when Germany surrendered on 8 May. At 04:30 GMT on 11 May, U-873 surrendered to USS Vance of Escort Division 45 (CortDiv 45) while it was escorting convoy UGS 90 at 35°45′N 42°31′W. Vance placed a prize crew aboard U-873 and escorted the U-boat to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on 16 May. U-873 was placed in dry dock for a design study of the Type IXD2 class of U-boats by Portsmouth Naval Shipyard engineers; and was later transferred to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Following completion of trials, the U-boat was scrapped in 1948
Possessions of the crews of the U-boat had been scattered by the prize crews in the process of searching for intelligence information and evidence of sabotage. Upon arrival at Portsmouth the U-boat crews were sent to Portsmouth Naval Prison for interrogation by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Subsequent investigation concluded personal possessions of the U-boat crewmen were looted contrary to provisions of the Geneva Convention.
Following interrogation at Portsmouth Naval Prison, the handcuffed crew of U-873 was pelted with insults and garbage while marching through the streets of Boston to the Suffolk County Charles Street Jail to await transfer to a prisoner-of-war camp in Mississippi.
U-873 crewman Georg Seitz reported Steinhoff's (CO) face was bleeding and swollen when he returned to his cell after being questioned by a civilian ONI interrogator who ordered a husky United States Marine Corps guard to slap the officer. On 19 May 1945 Steinhoff bled to death in his Boston jail cell from wrist wounds, possibly inflicted with the broken lens of his sunglasses. He was buried in grave 934 at Fort Devens.
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