RN & USN:
HMS Duncan (D 37), front, the guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), middle, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) maneuver in formation in the Mediterranean Sea on April 24, 2019
HMS M33 being dwarfed by the soon to be HMS Prince of Wales in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
USN:
USS Long Island (ACV-1) underway with a mixed cargo of airplanes and stores on her flight deck, 25 May 1943. The aircraft on deck include F4F, SBD and TBF types. USN photo
Previously known as the Merchant submarine Deutschland. She made two trips to the US on 1916 under the flag of the North German Lloyd company shipping valuable goods back to Germany. Her cargo capacity was almost 700 tons.
In 1917 she was taken over by the German navy and used as a long range cruiser submarine before being surrendered and scrapped as part of the treaty of Versailles.
Bow of SMS Scharnhorst off the Falklands Islands
The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands, where it was sunk by the British navy 105 years ago.
SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of German Vice-Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron.
It was sunk on 8 December 1914 with more than 800 men on board, including Vice-Adm von Spee himself. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50670743
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