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Ukraine:
Ukraine inherited the Project 1164 cruiser 'Admiral Lobov' (launched 1990), renamed her 'Ukraina' and was even able to get her to 95% completion by 1998 - but she's been in limbo ever since and as off a few weeks has been marked for scrapping
Ukraine inherited the Project 1164 cruiser 'Admiral Lobov' (launched 1990), renamed her 'Ukraina' and was even able to get her to 95% completion by 1998 - but she's been in limbo ever since and as off a few weeks has been marked for scrapping
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France:
The Da-14 later baptized Maillé-Brézé was put on hold on October 9, 1930 and launched on November 9, 1931. After a period of completion afloat, the Maillé-Brézé left Saint-Nazaire on September 12, 1932 in the direction of Lorient.
The Da-14 later baptized Maillé-Brézé was put on hold on October 9, 1930 and launched on November 9, 1931. After a period of completion afloat, the Maillé-Brézé left Saint-Nazaire on September 12, 1932 in the direction of Lorient.
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Merry Christmas from USS New Jersey!
USS Russell (DDG 59) celebrates the Christmas season with a brilliant illumination of Christmas lights for which the ship placed first in the annual holiday light decorating contest, held by the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Dec. 22, 2007. USN photo.
Snow falls on the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2017. Bremerton. USN photo.
An F-A-18 Hornet is decorated with Christmas lights on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush
USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112)
Merry Christmas from USS New Jersey!
USS Russell (DDG 59) celebrates the Christmas season with a brilliant illumination of Christmas lights for which the ship placed first in the annual holiday light decorating contest, held by the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Dec. 22, 2007. USN photo.
Snow falls on the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2017. Bremerton. USN photo.
An F-A-18 Hornet is decorated with Christmas lights on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush
USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112)
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HMS Example, an Archer-class (P2000-class) patrol boat, alongside in the snow
HMS Montrose is back on patrol in the Gulf after the recent crew change
HMS Astute, the British Royal Navy's latest nuclear hunter killer submarine, sails up Gareloch on the Firth of Cylde to her new base at Faslane, in western Scotland, on November 20, 2009 (commissioned 27th August 2010). Astute is armed with 38 torpedoes and missiles, and is able to circumnavigate the globe without refuelling due to the nuclear technology used. AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan
HMS Dragon joins the Carrier Strike Group as seen from HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Example, an Archer-class (P2000-class) patrol boat, alongside in the snow
HMS Montrose is back on patrol in the Gulf after the recent crew change
HMS Astute, the British Royal Navy's latest nuclear hunter killer submarine, sails up Gareloch on the Firth of Cylde to her new base at Faslane, in western Scotland, on November 20, 2009 (commissioned 27th August 2010). Astute is armed with 38 torpedoes and missiles, and is able to circumnavigate the globe without refuelling due to the nuclear technology used. AFP PHOTO/Andy Buchanan
HMS Dragon joins the Carrier Strike Group as seen from HMS Queen Elizabeth
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Papua New Guinea:
HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) is the first Guardian-class patrol boat to be completed. Australia designed and provided four Pacific Forum-class patrol vessels to Papua New Guinea in 1987 and 1988, and in 2015 confirmed she would be replacing those vessels with four larger, and more capable, Guardian-class vessels.
Ted Diro replaced HMPNGS Rabaul. Australia transferred the vessel to Papua New Guinea on November 30, 2018.
HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) is the first Guardian-class patrol boat to be completed. Australia designed and provided four Pacific Forum-class patrol vessels to Papua New Guinea in 1987 and 1988, and in 2015 confirmed she would be replacing those vessels with four larger, and more capable, Guardian-class vessels.
Ted Diro replaced HMPNGS Rabaul. Australia transferred the vessel to Papua New Guinea on November 30, 2018.
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Russia:
Dmitriy Donskoy (TK-2080; Russian: Дми́трий Донско́й ТК-208) is a Russian Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine, designated Project 941 Akula class (NATO reporting name Typhoon). With the decommissioning and scrapping of its Typhoon sister boats (TK-202, TK-13, Simbirsk, Arkhangelsk, Severstal, and TK-210), it is the largest submarine in the world in active service.
Pr. 1164 Varyag
Project 1164 cruiser 'Moskva' getting a new coat of paint
Dmitriy Donskoy (TK-2080; Russian: Дми́трий Донско́й ТК-208) is a Russian Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine, designated Project 941 Akula class (NATO reporting name Typhoon). With the decommissioning and scrapping of its Typhoon sister boats (TK-202, TK-13, Simbirsk, Arkhangelsk, Severstal, and TK-210), it is the largest submarine in the world in active service.
Pr. 1164 Varyag
Project 1164 cruiser 'Moskva' getting a new coat of paint
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USS Vesuvius, armed with three 15-inch dynamite guns, 1891
Commissioned in 1890, USS Vesuvius was the US Navy's dynamite gun surface ship. Dynamite guns were pneumatic cannons developed to shoot volatile explosives such as dynamite. Her cannons were 55 feet long and built directly into the ship at a fixed 16º elevation. Aiming was accomplished by training the entire ship and adjusting the pneumatic charge. The projectiles were 7 feet long, had 550 pounds of explosive and weighed 1,150 pounds total, and were fired by 1000 psi air. Only 30 shells were carried onboard the ship, and the guns had a range of 1.5 mile, but could be extended to 2.5 miles by using lighter munitions.
USS Vesuvius saw action bombarding Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Her guns fired silently, with no accompanying explosion of propellant. Due to the development of more stable explosives, pneumatic cannons were quickly discarded. In 1904, Vesuvius was converted to a torpedo test ship and her dynamite guns were removed. During testing in 1913, she fired a torpedo, which circled around and hit her. She was run aground in Narragansett Bay to prevent her from sinking. She was decommissioned in 1922.
"Air Patrol of the Atlantic", watercolor, by Henry Reuterdahl, shows an aircraft on anti-submarine patrol while USS Edwards steams ahead on convoy duty. c. 1919.
USS Vesuvius, armed with three 15-inch dynamite guns, 1891
Commissioned in 1890, USS Vesuvius was the US Navy's dynamite gun surface ship. Dynamite guns were pneumatic cannons developed to shoot volatile explosives such as dynamite. Her cannons were 55 feet long and built directly into the ship at a fixed 16º elevation. Aiming was accomplished by training the entire ship and adjusting the pneumatic charge. The projectiles were 7 feet long, had 550 pounds of explosive and weighed 1,150 pounds total, and were fired by 1000 psi air. Only 30 shells were carried onboard the ship, and the guns had a range of 1.5 mile, but could be extended to 2.5 miles by using lighter munitions.
USS Vesuvius saw action bombarding Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Her guns fired silently, with no accompanying explosion of propellant. Due to the development of more stable explosives, pneumatic cannons were quickly discarded. In 1904, Vesuvius was converted to a torpedo test ship and her dynamite guns were removed. During testing in 1913, she fired a torpedo, which circled around and hit her. She was run aground in Narragansett Bay to prevent her from sinking. She was decommissioned in 1922.
"Air Patrol of the Atlantic", watercolor, by Henry Reuterdahl, shows an aircraft on anti-submarine patrol while USS Edwards steams ahead on convoy duty. c. 1919.
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USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) Sailing Through Strait of Hormuz in 2015
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Dec. 21, 2019) The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) approaches the Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197) before commencing a replenishment-at-sea. Gabrielle Giffords is on a rotational deployment to INDOPACOM, conducting operations, exercises and port visits throughout the region and working hull-to-hull with allied and partner navies to provide maritime security and stability, key pillars of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas J. Beihl/Released)
PEARL HARBOR (Dec. 23, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) sails into Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after returning from a scheduled deployment. Wayne E. Meyer deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation and conducted an assortment of operations, including several freedom of navigation operations as part of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy's largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet's principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Oki/Released)
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USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) Sailing Through Strait of Hormuz in 2015
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Dec. 21, 2019) The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) approaches the Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197) before commencing a replenishment-at-sea. Gabrielle Giffords is on a rotational deployment to INDOPACOM, conducting operations, exercises and port visits throughout the region and working hull-to-hull with allied and partner navies to provide maritime security and stability, key pillars of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas J. Beihl/Released)
PEARL HARBOR (Dec. 23, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) sails into Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after returning from a scheduled deployment. Wayne E. Meyer deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation and conducted an assortment of operations, including several freedom of navigation operations as part of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy's largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet's principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Charles Oki/Released)
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Italy:
Submarine 'Ettore Fieramosca', an ill-fated attempt at the "cruiser-submarine" concept, being launched on 15 April 1929
In the mid-1920s the Regia Marina, while having discarded the opportunity to build a submarine with a heavy-caliber gun (akin to the M-class built for the Royal Navy during WWI), opted to try its hand at the concept of a big, long-range submarine, armed with a medium-caliber gun and with a floatplane to help with spotting; the Marine Nationale's laying down of the Surcouf was likely a factor in this decision as well. Thus the Ettore Fieramosca was born.
Designed by Generale del Genio Navale Curio Bernardis (thus following his design concepts of a single hull with side tanks), it was meant to displace around 2'000 t, and to be armed with a single 203 mm (8-inch) gun in an insulated mounting, plus four fore and two aft 533 mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes, and carry in a special hangar a small floatplane; it was laid down in the Cantiere Tosi of Taranto in 1926. However, even before her launching, doubts upon its utility (especially in a relatively small theater such as the Mediterranean one) and the reliability of its installations caused the revision of the design; as can be guessed by the picture above, the medium-caliber gun was deleted (also due to the poor stability qualities of the Bernardis-type boats), to be replaced by a conventional 120 mm (4.7-inch). The hangar would likewise disappear shortly before her commissioning, as the issues about which aircraft to use coupled with the trouble the hangar and its weight would bring.
Therefore, by 1930 the Ettore Fieramosca was finally commissioned in the Regia Marina as a conventional submarine, but as such it would prove to be only a mediocre success at best. Oversized, unstable (both surfaced and underwater) and way slower than what the design hoped to achieve (15.5 knots in service, compared to the 20 knots hoped for), it also boasted a modest endurance of 5'300 nm at 8 knots, meaning that it was ill-suited for its hoped-for "oceanic" role.
In the end, the Fieramosca would also gain the derisive nickname "Fieroguaio" (guaio meaning "trouble" in Italian), for the seemingly endless chain of breakdowns and mechanical issues that would plague its career; it was little comfort for its crew to have the best-furnished submarine of the fleet, as its dimensions made it possible to have things such as a huge refrigerator, two kitchens and no less than six toilets!
The likely highlight of its relatively short career could be her second mission to support the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War (a secret, and completely illegal operation undertook by the Regia Marina); in the night of 26 December 1937, the Fieramosca fired three torpedoes against the Republican light cruiser Mendez Nuñez, with all missing, however. As an anedocte, the next sortie would be cut short by a failure of an engine that forced the boat to return to port, while on another, during a nighttime bombardment of Barcelona, the 120 mm gun had to cease fire as it seized up.
By World War Two, the aging submarine was assigned to GRUPSOM I (First Submarine Group) of La Spezia, and again its activity was cut short by an accident, an accidental explosion in her battery room that forced it to limp home. Not a month into the war, it was reduced to a training role, and by October 1940 it would be assigned to the Submarine School of Pola (Pula). After twenty-eight training missions (and being used as a stage for a film), its career finally came to an end as it was decommissioned on 10 April 1941. On 18 October 1946 it was struck from the list, and it was then scrapped.
The Re.2000 Catapultabile (MM.8281) on a topside catapult of Giuseppe Miraglia ready for take-off, May 1942. Less than a dozen of these variants was used during WWII. The planes were planned for the unfinished 27,000-ton Italian aircraft carrier L’ Aquila but cut their teeth on Miraglia.
The Italian scout Quarto, the first "esploratore" and the last large surface combatant built in the history of the Venetian Arsenal
In 1908 the Regia Marina requested a ship capable of performing the scouting role that the eponymous ships in foreign navies (such as the Royal navy) did; for this, a ship with substantial armament and decidedly better speed than the previous protected cruisers was needed. It was designed by Maggiore del Genio Navale Giulio Truccone, with speed as the main focus (it was the first Italian cruiser-type ship fitted with steam turbines powered by ten oil-fired boilers, that allowed it to reach a top speed of 28 knots), and firepower coming as a close second, with six 120 mm (4.7-inch) and six 76 mm (3-inch) gun complementing two 450 mm (17.7-inch) torpedo tubes, with protection guaranteed only by a 40 mm armoured deck.
Thus the Italian "esploratori" were born, ships that tended to straddle the line between big destroyers and small cruisers; said ships, often noticeable for their considerable speeds and their strong armament, would be a staple of Italian shipbuilding for no less than thirty years, and would play an important part in the Franco-Italian naval race of the interwar year, giving shape to the Regia Marina's light forces that would eventually fight World War II, for better or for worse (from the disappointing early Condottieri, to the stalwart Navigatori).
Laid down in the Arsenale di Venezia on 11 November 1909, the Quarto (named after the small village near Genoa from where Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed for its Expedition of the Thousand in 1860) was launched on 19 August 1911, a momentous day, as no more big warships would be built in such place, putting an end to a century-long history. Commissioned on May 1912, during WWI it operated from Brindisi, performing 54 missions (plus 9 escort missions) throughout the conflict.
In 1926-7 it was briefly modified to carry a Macchi M.18 seaplane. After stints in the Far East (in the China station) and in the Red Sea, it was recommissioned in 1936 to become the flagship of the Italian ships operating in Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War. Despite its generally good conditions and capability to still reach its top speed despite its age (unlike its derivatives, the Nino Bixio-class, less appreciated and already sold for scrapping by 1929), the Quarto was finally decommissioned in 1938 and stricken from the naval registry in 1939. Its hull, towed to Livorno (Leghorn), would be used as a dummy for training the Decima MAS, and was scuttled to block the harbour entrance in July 1944.
As an interesting note, the Quarto briefly held classifications other than "esploratore" in its career; before being launched it had been put into the naval registry as a "*nave di battaglia di 4***a classe" (lit. "fourth-class battle ship"), while a few months before its final decommissioning the scout rating in the RM was abolished and the old ship was duly reclassified "incrociatore leggero" (light cruiser).
Battleship 'Conte Di Cavour', with a line of cruisers in the background, seen from aboard one of the 32 Spica class torpedo boats of the late 1930s. This photograph may have been taken at the 5 May 1938 naval review off Naples, Italy.
Submarine 'Ettore Fieramosca', an ill-fated attempt at the "cruiser-submarine" concept, being launched on 15 April 1929
In the mid-1920s the Regia Marina, while having discarded the opportunity to build a submarine with a heavy-caliber gun (akin to the M-class built for the Royal Navy during WWI), opted to try its hand at the concept of a big, long-range submarine, armed with a medium-caliber gun and with a floatplane to help with spotting; the Marine Nationale's laying down of the Surcouf was likely a factor in this decision as well. Thus the Ettore Fieramosca was born.
Designed by Generale del Genio Navale Curio Bernardis (thus following his design concepts of a single hull with side tanks), it was meant to displace around 2'000 t, and to be armed with a single 203 mm (8-inch) gun in an insulated mounting, plus four fore and two aft 533 mm (21-inch) torpedo tubes, and carry in a special hangar a small floatplane; it was laid down in the Cantiere Tosi of Taranto in 1926. However, even before her launching, doubts upon its utility (especially in a relatively small theater such as the Mediterranean one) and the reliability of its installations caused the revision of the design; as can be guessed by the picture above, the medium-caliber gun was deleted (also due to the poor stability qualities of the Bernardis-type boats), to be replaced by a conventional 120 mm (4.7-inch). The hangar would likewise disappear shortly before her commissioning, as the issues about which aircraft to use coupled with the trouble the hangar and its weight would bring.
Therefore, by 1930 the Ettore Fieramosca was finally commissioned in the Regia Marina as a conventional submarine, but as such it would prove to be only a mediocre success at best. Oversized, unstable (both surfaced and underwater) and way slower than what the design hoped to achieve (15.5 knots in service, compared to the 20 knots hoped for), it also boasted a modest endurance of 5'300 nm at 8 knots, meaning that it was ill-suited for its hoped-for "oceanic" role.
In the end, the Fieramosca would also gain the derisive nickname "Fieroguaio" (guaio meaning "trouble" in Italian), for the seemingly endless chain of breakdowns and mechanical issues that would plague its career; it was little comfort for its crew to have the best-furnished submarine of the fleet, as its dimensions made it possible to have things such as a huge refrigerator, two kitchens and no less than six toilets!
The likely highlight of its relatively short career could be her second mission to support the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War (a secret, and completely illegal operation undertook by the Regia Marina); in the night of 26 December 1937, the Fieramosca fired three torpedoes against the Republican light cruiser Mendez Nuñez, with all missing, however. As an anedocte, the next sortie would be cut short by a failure of an engine that forced the boat to return to port, while on another, during a nighttime bombardment of Barcelona, the 120 mm gun had to cease fire as it seized up.
By World War Two, the aging submarine was assigned to GRUPSOM I (First Submarine Group) of La Spezia, and again its activity was cut short by an accident, an accidental explosion in her battery room that forced it to limp home. Not a month into the war, it was reduced to a training role, and by October 1940 it would be assigned to the Submarine School of Pola (Pula). After twenty-eight training missions (and being used as a stage for a film), its career finally came to an end as it was decommissioned on 10 April 1941. On 18 October 1946 it was struck from the list, and it was then scrapped.
The Re.2000 Catapultabile (MM.8281) on a topside catapult of Giuseppe Miraglia ready for take-off, May 1942. Less than a dozen of these variants was used during WWII. The planes were planned for the unfinished 27,000-ton Italian aircraft carrier L’ Aquila but cut their teeth on Miraglia.
The Italian scout Quarto, the first "esploratore" and the last large surface combatant built in the history of the Venetian Arsenal
In 1908 the Regia Marina requested a ship capable of performing the scouting role that the eponymous ships in foreign navies (such as the Royal navy) did; for this, a ship with substantial armament and decidedly better speed than the previous protected cruisers was needed. It was designed by Maggiore del Genio Navale Giulio Truccone, with speed as the main focus (it was the first Italian cruiser-type ship fitted with steam turbines powered by ten oil-fired boilers, that allowed it to reach a top speed of 28 knots), and firepower coming as a close second, with six 120 mm (4.7-inch) and six 76 mm (3-inch) gun complementing two 450 mm (17.7-inch) torpedo tubes, with protection guaranteed only by a 40 mm armoured deck.
Thus the Italian "esploratori" were born, ships that tended to straddle the line between big destroyers and small cruisers; said ships, often noticeable for their considerable speeds and their strong armament, would be a staple of Italian shipbuilding for no less than thirty years, and would play an important part in the Franco-Italian naval race of the interwar year, giving shape to the Regia Marina's light forces that would eventually fight World War II, for better or for worse (from the disappointing early Condottieri, to the stalwart Navigatori).
Laid down in the Arsenale di Venezia on 11 November 1909, the Quarto (named after the small village near Genoa from where Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed for its Expedition of the Thousand in 1860) was launched on 19 August 1911, a momentous day, as no more big warships would be built in such place, putting an end to a century-long history. Commissioned on May 1912, during WWI it operated from Brindisi, performing 54 missions (plus 9 escort missions) throughout the conflict.
In 1926-7 it was briefly modified to carry a Macchi M.18 seaplane. After stints in the Far East (in the China station) and in the Red Sea, it was recommissioned in 1936 to become the flagship of the Italian ships operating in Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War. Despite its generally good conditions and capability to still reach its top speed despite its age (unlike its derivatives, the Nino Bixio-class, less appreciated and already sold for scrapping by 1929), the Quarto was finally decommissioned in 1938 and stricken from the naval registry in 1939. Its hull, towed to Livorno (Leghorn), would be used as a dummy for training the Decima MAS, and was scuttled to block the harbour entrance in July 1944.
As an interesting note, the Quarto briefly held classifications other than "esploratore" in its career; before being launched it had been put into the naval registry as a "*nave di battaglia di 4***a classe" (lit. "fourth-class battle ship"), while a few months before its final decommissioning the scout rating in the RM was abolished and the old ship was duly reclassified "incrociatore leggero" (light cruiser).
Battleship 'Conte Di Cavour', with a line of cruisers in the background, seen from aboard one of the 32 Spica class torpedo boats of the late 1930s. This photograph may have been taken at the 5 May 1938 naval review off Naples, Italy.
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CV16 Liaoning and CV17 Shandong together
Sovremenny class 137 'Fuzhou' spotted on her extensive midlife refit alongside Type 052C 150 'Changchun' and Type 056 582 'Bengbu'
CV16 Liaoning and CV17 Shandong together
Sovremenny class 137 'Fuzhou' spotted on her extensive midlife refit alongside Type 052C 150 'Changchun' and Type 056 582 'Bengbu'
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USS J. Douglas Blackwood (DE-219) circa 1958
USS Kentucky (BB-66) is moved from her building dock at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, circa 20 January 1950. She was launched to clear the drydock, so that USS Missouri (BB-63) could undergo repairs for damage received when she went aground on 17 Jan 1950.
USS J. Douglas Blackwood (DE-219) circa 1958
USS Kentucky (BB-66) is moved from her building dock at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, circa 20 January 1950. She was launched to clear the drydock, so that USS Missouri (BB-63) could undergo repairs for damage received when she went aground on 17 Jan 1950.
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