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Italy:
Light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, with her 152 mm (6-inch) turrets trained to starboard
An exercise torpedo being fired from the destroyer Espero. Year and location unknown
As an anedocte, I read in an Italian officer's memoirs that the paramount thing, after a torpedo exercise, was to recover all torpedoes fired, because if any were missing, it came off the captain's next paycheck (and they weren't exactly cheap).
After one exercise, all torpedoes fired were recovered, but one. The junior officer supervising that was worried, because he knew that his captain wouldn't be very happy about it, and it would turn the ship into a shitshow all the way back to port. So, in his usual booming voice, he told the bridge: "Commander, all torpedoes recovered!", and then added in a much lower voice, so as not to be heard: "Minus one." So he did his duty, and the captain was happy; at least until they got back home and he had to see his paycheck would be cut, but by that time the officer would be out of the line of fire.
Light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, with her 152 mm (6-inch) turrets trained to starboard
An exercise torpedo being fired from the destroyer Espero. Year and location unknown
As an anedocte, I read in an Italian officer's memoirs that the paramount thing, after a torpedo exercise, was to recover all torpedoes fired, because if any were missing, it came off the captain's next paycheck (and they weren't exactly cheap).
After one exercise, all torpedoes fired were recovered, but one. The junior officer supervising that was worried, because he knew that his captain wouldn't be very happy about it, and it would turn the ship into a shitshow all the way back to port. So, in his usual booming voice, he told the bridge: "Commander, all torpedoes recovered!", and then added in a much lower voice, so as not to be heard: "Minus one." So he did his duty, and the captain was happy; at least until they got back home and he had to see his paycheck would be cut, but by that time the officer would be out of the line of fire.
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USN:
Almost completed battleship USS Utah (BB-31) (Background) and USS Arkansas (BB-33) (foreground) still under construction are seen after launching alongside the destroyer USS Ammen (DD-35) and the large civilian coastal liner Suwantee, circa 1912
Almost completed battleship USS Utah (BB-31) (Background) and USS Arkansas (BB-33) (foreground) still under construction are seen after launching alongside the destroyer USS Ammen (DD-35) and the large civilian coastal liner Suwantee, circa 1912
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Australia:
HMAS Sheean in Hobart 1st April 2021
HMAS Anzac & HMAS Sirius are participating in Exercise La Perouse, a French-led multilateral maritime exercise in the Bay of Bengal. April 5, 2021
HMAS Sheean in Hobart 1st April 2021
HMAS Anzac & HMAS Sirius are participating in Exercise La Perouse, a French-led multilateral maritime exercise in the Bay of Bengal. April 5, 2021
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PLA(N):
April 3, 2021. Liaoning 16 entered the Pacific S of Okinawa 3 April at the centre of a 6-ship task group: Type 101 destroyer NANCHANG, Type 052D destroyers CHENGDU 120 & TAIYUAN 131, Type 054A frigate HUANGGANG 577 and Type 901 supply ship HULUNHU 965
April 3, 2021. Liaoning 16 entered the Pacific S of Okinawa 3 April at the centre of a 6-ship task group: Type 101 destroyer NANCHANG, Type 052D destroyers CHENGDU 120 & TAIYUAN 131, Type 054A frigate HUANGGANG 577 and Type 901 supply ship HULUNHU 965
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RN:
April 7,1940. Lt Cdr Gerard Roope awarded VC for bravery during attack on the German cruiser Admiral Hipper by HMS Glowworm. In a last attempt the captain of Glowworm ordered the crew to ram the German ship, which broke the bow off Glowworm, and she sank shortly afterwards.
Hipper was forced to retire for repairs prompting its captain to contact the Royal Navy to tell of Roope’s bravery.
April 7,1940. Lt Cdr Gerard Roope awarded VC for bravery during attack on the German cruiser Admiral Hipper by HMS Glowworm. In a last attempt the captain of Glowworm ordered the crew to ram the German ship, which broke the bow off Glowworm, and she sank shortly afterwards.
Hipper was forced to retire for repairs prompting its captain to contact the Royal Navy to tell of Roope’s bravery.
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South Korea:
Attack submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SS-083), still in sea trials and not yet commissioned
The Dosan Ahn Changho class are equipped with the Korean Vertical Launching System which will be able to carry up to ten indigenous "Chonryong" land-attack cruise missiles and "Hyunmoo" submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM), becoming the first submarines in the South Korean navy to have this kind of capability.
They will also have many other improvements compared to their predecessors built with a greater degree of South Korean technology, especially in the later batches, which will include Samsung SDI lithium-ion batteries. Measured to displace over 3,800 tonnes (3,700 long tons) submerged during sea trials, they are the largest conventional submarines ever built by South Korea.
The Batch II vessels will increase their displacement by approximately 450 t (440 long tons) (4,250 t, 4,180 long tons submerged), according to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.
Attack submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SS-083), still in sea trials and not yet commissioned
The Dosan Ahn Changho class are equipped with the Korean Vertical Launching System which will be able to carry up to ten indigenous "Chonryong" land-attack cruise missiles and "Hyunmoo" submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM), becoming the first submarines in the South Korean navy to have this kind of capability.
They will also have many other improvements compared to their predecessors built with a greater degree of South Korean technology, especially in the later batches, which will include Samsung SDI lithium-ion batteries. Measured to displace over 3,800 tonnes (3,700 long tons) submerged during sea trials, they are the largest conventional submarines ever built by South Korea.
The Batch II vessels will increase their displacement by approximately 450 t (440 long tons) (4,250 t, 4,180 long tons submerged), according to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration.
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RN:
Light cruiser HMS Sussex in Glasgow, after the dock she was in was deliberately flooded to prevent a fire (caused by a bomb) reaching her magazines, September 1940
Battleship HMS Barham falls under group attack of Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero torpedo bombers while escorting convoy en route from Alexandria amid Operation Tiger. No hits were scored. 10 May 1941, South-East of Malta.
HMS Sheffield (centre) underway in the Mediterranean during Operation Halberd, with HMS Edinburgh (left) and HMS Kenya (right), other cruisers of the convoy to Malta, Sept 1941
Light cruiser HMS Sussex in Glasgow, after the dock she was in was deliberately flooded to prevent a fire (caused by a bomb) reaching her magazines, September 1940
Battleship HMS Barham falls under group attack of Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero torpedo bombers while escorting convoy en route from Alexandria amid Operation Tiger. No hits were scored. 10 May 1941, South-East of Malta.
HMS Sheffield (centre) underway in the Mediterranean during Operation Halberd, with HMS Edinburgh (left) and HMS Kenya (right), other cruisers of the convoy to Malta, Sept 1941
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