USN:
USNS Point Loma (ex USNS Point Barrow) did not have any pumpkins available for Halloween in 1986, the crew made giant jack-o'-lanterns with the LASS missile tracking radars.
France:
Battleship Bouvet, seen from the Charlemagne, during the Gallipolli campaign, 1915.
On 18 March 1915; during the attack, she was hit approximately eight times by shellfire but was not seriously damaged. While turning to withdraw, she struck a mine and sank within two minutes; only 75 men were rescued from a complement of 718.
Imperial Japan:
Yokosuka Harbour in Kanagawa Prefecture. During the 1860s and 1870s, the small village of Yokosuka was developed as a modern naval base by French engineer François Léonce Verny. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal became the first modern arsenal in Japan.
Battleships HMS Vanguard (l) and HMS Howe (r) with maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn in the background. Cruiser HMS Euryalus alongside a couple destroyers, with the former HMS Marshal Ney on the left in the photo and the requisitioned ocean liner Alaunia on the right.
USN:
During practice recovery July 11, 1969, Navy UDT swimmers (wearing orange and standing on flotation collar) finish attaching the flotation collar around a dummy capsule, with USS Hornet in background. (Photo by Milt Putnam, HS-4)
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