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France:
Visitors aboard the light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet
Light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet moored off Shanghai, China, probably in late May or early June 1939. At left is the stern of the British light cruiser Birmingham (C19). The bow of the U.S. Navy troop transport USS Chaumont (AP-5) is at right, immediately astern of Lamotte-Picquet. Also present are the Danish steamer Promise (beyond Lamotte-Picquet's bow), the British steamer Yingchow (right background) and the British steamer Shantung (partially visible in the right foreground)
Completed in 1927, Lamotte-Picquet was based at Brest until 1933, serving with the 3rd Light Division, of which she was flagship. In 1935, she was sent to the Far East, where at the outbreak of war in 1939, she patrolled around French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies.
After the French surrender in Europe, tension developed along the border with Siam (now Thailand). These flared into hostilities between Siam and Vichy France in December 1940. In January 1941, Lamotte-Picquet became the flagship of a small squadron, the Groupe Occasionnel. It was formed on 9 December at Cam Ranh Bay, near Saigon, under the command of Capitaine de Vaisseau Bérenger. The squadron also consisted of the colonial sloops Dumont d'Urville and Amiral Charner, and the older sloops Tahure and Marne. The Groupe Occasionnel with Lamotte-Picquet at its head, met a Thai squadron of two torpedo boats and a coastal defence ship in the Battle of Koh Chang on 14 January 1941. The Thai squadron was defeated, with both torpedo boats sunk and the coastal defence ship run aground. The victory was for naught, however, as the Japanese forced a settlement in the Franco-Thai War in favour of the Thai. Apart from a visit to Osaka, Japan in September 1941, Lamotte-Picquet was thereafter restricted in her activities.
From the next month, Lamotte-Picquet was used as a training hulk. She was sunk in Đồng Nai River, on 12 January 1945, by U.S carrier based aircraft from Task Force 38 during the South China Sea raid. The remains of the hull were scrapped after the war.
Visitors aboard the light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet
Light cruiser Lamotte-Picquet moored off Shanghai, China, probably in late May or early June 1939. At left is the stern of the British light cruiser Birmingham (C19). The bow of the U.S. Navy troop transport USS Chaumont (AP-5) is at right, immediately astern of Lamotte-Picquet. Also present are the Danish steamer Promise (beyond Lamotte-Picquet's bow), the British steamer Yingchow (right background) and the British steamer Shantung (partially visible in the right foreground)
Completed in 1927, Lamotte-Picquet was based at Brest until 1933, serving with the 3rd Light Division, of which she was flagship. In 1935, she was sent to the Far East, where at the outbreak of war in 1939, she patrolled around French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies.
After the French surrender in Europe, tension developed along the border with Siam (now Thailand). These flared into hostilities between Siam and Vichy France in December 1940. In January 1941, Lamotte-Picquet became the flagship of a small squadron, the Groupe Occasionnel. It was formed on 9 December at Cam Ranh Bay, near Saigon, under the command of Capitaine de Vaisseau Bérenger. The squadron also consisted of the colonial sloops Dumont d'Urville and Amiral Charner, and the older sloops Tahure and Marne. The Groupe Occasionnel with Lamotte-Picquet at its head, met a Thai squadron of two torpedo boats and a coastal defence ship in the Battle of Koh Chang on 14 January 1941. The Thai squadron was defeated, with both torpedo boats sunk and the coastal defence ship run aground. The victory was for naught, however, as the Japanese forced a settlement in the Franco-Thai War in favour of the Thai. Apart from a visit to Osaka, Japan in September 1941, Lamotte-Picquet was thereafter restricted in her activities.
From the next month, Lamotte-Picquet was used as a training hulk. She was sunk in Đồng Nai River, on 12 January 1945, by U.S carrier based aircraft from Task Force 38 during the South China Sea raid. The remains of the hull were scrapped after the war.
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Town class cruiser HMS Edinburgh on the River Tyne after trials, 1939
Six Blackburn Skuas of No 800 Squadron Fleet Air Arm line up on deck before taking off from HMS ARK ROYAL. April 1941
HMS Vanguard
HMS Indefatigable escorted by the destroyers HMS Wizard and HMS Urchin, 1945
Town class cruiser HMS Edinburgh on the River Tyne after trials, 1939
Six Blackburn Skuas of No 800 Squadron Fleet Air Arm line up on deck before taking off from HMS ARK ROYAL. April 1941
HMS Vanguard
HMS Indefatigable escorted by the destroyers HMS Wizard and HMS Urchin, 1945
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Armoured cruiser HMS Monmouth
She is best known for being one of the two ships that was sunk at the Battle of Coronel by von Spee's Ostasiengeschwader.
The ship itself was obsolescent, if not outright obsolete, and had no great value in the conflict ahead; however, it seems that more's the pity for the men that crewed her, or at least her captain, Frank Brandt. According to future Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Brandt was
Armoured cruiser HMS Monmouth
She is best known for being one of the two ships that was sunk at the Battle of Coronel by von Spee's Ostasiengeschwader.
The ship itself was obsolescent, if not outright obsolete, and had no great value in the conflict ahead; however, it seems that more's the pity for the men that crewed her, or at least her captain, Frank Brandt. According to future Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Brandt was
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USS Charleston (C-22) arrives at Hoboken Port of Embarkation, New Jersey, from Brest with combat veterans of American Expeditionary Force onboard. She made 5 voyages between France and the USA in 1919 returning 7700 men home.
USS Charleston (C-22) arrives at Hoboken Port of Embarkation, New Jersey, from Brest with combat veterans of American Expeditionary Force onboard. She made 5 voyages between France and the USA in 1919 returning 7700 men home.
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The destruction of battleship HMS Bulwark after she suffered a massive explosion caused by the aft 12'' magazine detonation with 741 lives lost. Photo taken from HMS Queen. November 26, 1914, 8:15 AM, 3.5 nmi West of Sheerness, UK.
The destruction of battleship HMS Bulwark after she suffered a massive explosion caused by the aft 12'' magazine detonation with 741 lives lost. Photo taken from HMS Queen. November 26, 1914, 8:15 AM, 3.5 nmi West of Sheerness, UK.
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Brazil:
Light cruiser Bahia sometime before her mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by her two funnels
Cruiser Bahia at an unknown date, but after a mid-1920s modernization (as indicated by the three funnels).
Bahia was extensively modernized in the mid-1920s. She received three new Brown–Curtis turbine engines and six new Thornycroft boilers, and she was converted from coal-burning to oil. The refit resulted in a striking aesthetic change, with the exhaust being trunked into three funnels instead of two. The armament was also modified, adding three 20 mm (0.79 in) Madsen guns, a 7 mm (0.28 in) Hotchkiss machine gun, and four 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes. In the 1930s, she served with government forces during multiple revolutions.
In the Second World War, Bahia was once again used as a convoy escort, sailing over 100,000 nautical miles (190,000 km; 120,000 mi) in the span of about a year. On 4 July 1945, she was acting as a plane guard for transport aircraft flying from the Atlantic to Pacific theatres of war. Bahia's gunners were firing at a kite for anti-aircraft practice when one aimed too low and hit depth charges stored near the stern of the ship, resulting in a massive explosion that incapacitated the ship and sank her within minutes. Only a few of the crew survived the blast, and fewer still (@32) were alive when their rafts were discovered days later.
The survivors of the blast endured four or five days of no food, high temperatures, and full exposure to the sun on their makeshift rafts. The New York Times reported that some were driven mad by these conditions and simply jumped into the water, where they were devoured by sharks
Light cruiser Bahia sometime before her mid-1920s modernization, as indicated by her two funnels
Cruiser Bahia at an unknown date, but after a mid-1920s modernization (as indicated by the three funnels).
Bahia was extensively modernized in the mid-1920s. She received three new Brown–Curtis turbine engines and six new Thornycroft boilers, and she was converted from coal-burning to oil. The refit resulted in a striking aesthetic change, with the exhaust being trunked into three funnels instead of two. The armament was also modified, adding three 20 mm (0.79 in) Madsen guns, a 7 mm (0.28 in) Hotchkiss machine gun, and four 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes. In the 1930s, she served with government forces during multiple revolutions.
In the Second World War, Bahia was once again used as a convoy escort, sailing over 100,000 nautical miles (190,000 km; 120,000 mi) in the span of about a year. On 4 July 1945, she was acting as a plane guard for transport aircraft flying from the Atlantic to Pacific theatres of war. Bahia's gunners were firing at a kite for anti-aircraft practice when one aimed too low and hit depth charges stored near the stern of the ship, resulting in a massive explosion that incapacitated the ship and sank her within minutes. Only a few of the crew survived the blast, and fewer still (@32) were alive when their rafts were discovered days later.
The survivors of the blast endured four or five days of no food, high temperatures, and full exposure to the sun on their makeshift rafts. The New York Times reported that some were driven mad by these conditions and simply jumped into the water, where they were devoured by sharks
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HMS Royal Sovereign, during the Second World War
The Revenge class, sometimes referred to as the Royal Sovereign class or the R class, was a group of five superdreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. All of the ships were completed to see service during the First World War. There were originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the Renown-class battlecruisers, while the other, which was to have been named HMS Resistance, was cancelled outright. The design was based on that of the preceding Queen Elizabeth class, but with reductions in size and speed to make them more economical to build.
Two of the ships, Revenge and Royal Oak, were completed in time to see action at the Battle of Jutland during the First World War, where they engaged German battlecruisers. The other three ships were completed after the battle, by which time the British and German fleets had adopted more cautious strategies, and as a result, the class saw no further substantial action. During the early 1920s, the ships were involved in the Greco-Turkish War and the Russian Civil War as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. They typically operated as a unit during the interwar period, also seeing stints in the Atlantic Fleet. All five members of the class were modernised in the 1930s, particularly to strengthen their anti-aircraft defences and fire-control equipment.
The ships saw extensive action during the Second World War, though they were no longer front-line units by this time and thus were frequently relegated to secondary duties such as convoy escort and naval gunfire support. Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings in Scapa Flow in October 1939 by a German U-boat, and two other ships of the class were torpedoed during the war; Resolution, hit by a Vichy French submarine off Dakar in 1940 and Ramillies, attacked by a Japanese submarine in Madagascar in 1943, both survived. Royal Sovereign ended the war in service with the Soviet Navy as Arkhangelsk, but she was returned to the Royal Navy in 1949, by which time her three surviving sister ships had been broken up for scrap. She, too, was dismantled that year.
HMS Royal Sovereign, during the Second World War
The Revenge class, sometimes referred to as the Royal Sovereign class or the R class, was a group of five superdreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. All of the ships were completed to see service during the First World War. There were originally to have been eight of the class, but two were later redesigned, becoming the Renown-class battlecruisers, while the other, which was to have been named HMS Resistance, was cancelled outright. The design was based on that of the preceding Queen Elizabeth class, but with reductions in size and speed to make them more economical to build.
Two of the ships, Revenge and Royal Oak, were completed in time to see action at the Battle of Jutland during the First World War, where they engaged German battlecruisers. The other three ships were completed after the battle, by which time the British and German fleets had adopted more cautious strategies, and as a result, the class saw no further substantial action. During the early 1920s, the ships were involved in the Greco-Turkish War and the Russian Civil War as part of the Mediterranean Fleet. They typically operated as a unit during the interwar period, also seeing stints in the Atlantic Fleet. All five members of the class were modernised in the 1930s, particularly to strengthen their anti-aircraft defences and fire-control equipment.
The ships saw extensive action during the Second World War, though they were no longer front-line units by this time and thus were frequently relegated to secondary duties such as convoy escort and naval gunfire support. Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings in Scapa Flow in October 1939 by a German U-boat, and two other ships of the class were torpedoed during the war; Resolution, hit by a Vichy French submarine off Dakar in 1940 and Ramillies, attacked by a Japanese submarine in Madagascar in 1943, both survived. Royal Sovereign ended the war in service with the Soviet Navy as Arkhangelsk, but she was returned to the Royal Navy in 1949, by which time her three surviving sister ships had been broken up for scrap. She, too, was dismantled that year.
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