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Air Carrier Cavour
The Cavour (C 550) is a V/STOL aircraft carrier of the Italian Navy that entered into operations in June 2009. Built in Genoa, it carried out its first sea trial on December 22, 2006 and was commissioned on December 27. March 2008
Air Carrier Cavour
The Cavour (C 550) is a V/STOL aircraft carrier of the Italian Navy that entered into operations in June 2009. Built in Genoa, it carried out its first sea trial on December 22, 2006 and was commissioned on December 27. March 2008
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Fletcher-class destroyer USS Prichett (DD-561) being refueled by a Midway-class aircraft carrier, circa 1950s
USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the US Navy's first atomic powered submarine, on its initial sea trials, January 20, 1955
Iowa class battleships USS Iowa (BB-61) & USS Wisconsin (BB-64) followed by Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Boston (CA-69) and Oregon City-class heavy cruiser USS Albany (CA-123) astern, August 3, 1957
Fletcher-class destroyer USS Prichett (DD-561) being refueled by a Midway-class aircraft carrier, circa 1950s
USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the US Navy's first atomic powered submarine, on its initial sea trials, January 20, 1955
Iowa class battleships USS Iowa (BB-61) & USS Wisconsin (BB-64) followed by Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Boston (CA-69) and Oregon City-class heavy cruiser USS Albany (CA-123) astern, August 3, 1957
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Flight I Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) transits the South China Sea during routine operations. Nov 25, 2023
Los Angeles-class attack submarine coming into Pearl Harbor. Nov 28, 2023
Flight I Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) transits the South China Sea during routine operations. Nov 25, 2023
Los Angeles-class attack submarine coming into Pearl Harbor. Nov 28, 2023
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La Galissonnière class light cruiser Marseillaise afire and sinking, Toulon, France, late November 1942
After the French surrender, on 4 July 1940, she returned to Toulon. As a result of the British attack on Mers-el-Kebir, the Germans suspended the disarming of the French fleet and Marseillaise became part of the newly formed High Seas force.
In the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon, the ship was sabotaged by her crew and set on fire. The captain of Marseillaise was anxious that the Germans should not capture the ship. He ordered scuttling charges to be set and the sea valves opened only on one side, ignoring orders to sink his ship on an even keel. German commandos arrived at the gangplank but were refused permission to go aboard. They did not force the issue and stood on the dock and watched the ship slowly capsize. The last officers abandoned ship as explosions ripped the vessel apart and fires took hold. The ship's officers were taken prisoner, and the ship burned for seven days.
The burnt-out hulk of Marseillaise was scrapped in 1946–1947.
La Galissonnière class light cruiser Marseillaise afire and sinking, Toulon, France, late November 1942
After the French surrender, on 4 July 1940, she returned to Toulon. As a result of the British attack on Mers-el-Kebir, the Germans suspended the disarming of the French fleet and Marseillaise became part of the newly formed High Seas force.
In the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon, the ship was sabotaged by her crew and set on fire. The captain of Marseillaise was anxious that the Germans should not capture the ship. He ordered scuttling charges to be set and the sea valves opened only on one side, ignoring orders to sink his ship on an even keel. German commandos arrived at the gangplank but were refused permission to go aboard. They did not force the issue and stood on the dock and watched the ship slowly capsize. The last officers abandoned ship as explosions ripped the vessel apart and fires took hold. The ship's officers were taken prisoner, and the ship burned for seven days.
The burnt-out hulk of Marseillaise was scrapped in 1946–1947.
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Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774) after completion in the outer harbour of San Pedro, California (USA), on 11 December 1944. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 32 Design 25D.
After shakedown training off the coast of California, Hugh W. Hadley sailed 21 February 1945 in company with HMS Ranee for Pearl Harbor. The ships arrived 27 February, but Hugh W. Hadley was soon underway again, sailing eight days later for Ulithi and the great Okinawa invasion.
The ship departed in company with a large group of LST's and their escorts on 25 March bound for the Japanese island stronghold, and arrived off the Okinawa group on 31 March. As the night approach was made, Hadley led a group of LST's toward the beach, shooting down an attacking Japanese plane en route. The destroyer escorted her charges safely to the beach, watched them unload their troops and equipment the morning of 1 April, and then took up antisubmarine patrol station outside the transport area. As the bitter fighting ashore continued, Hadley helped protect against submarines and aircraft as the Japanese made a final effort to stop the invasion. The ship remained on patrol until 4 April, when she sailed with a group of transports to Saipan, arriving on 14 April.
Hadley was soon on her way back to Okinawa, however, and arrived from Saipan on 27 April to resume her outer patrol. For the next few days the destroyer fought off numerous air raids, picked up a downed fighter pilot, and carried out antisubmarine patrol. She went alongside the destroyer Brown on 1 May for transfer of communication equipment, and then took up additional duties as a fighter direction ship for the Combat Air Patrols, so vital to the invasion's air cover.
As radar picket ships were scarce, Hadley was assigned this duty on the afternoon of 10 May. Joining destroyer Evans and four smaller craft, she took station 15 west of Okinawa and early the next morning began vectoring aircraft to meet the oncoming Japanese. For nearly two hours the morning of 11 May, Hadley and Evans came under severe attack, as the Japanese mounted their sixth attack against American forces at Okinawa. Both ships maneuvered at high speed, downing many kamikazes and directing air attacks on formations of Japanese. The attackers numbered some 150 planes. After Evans took several serious hits and went dead in the water about 0900, Hadley fought on alone. At 0920, she was attacked by 10 planes simultaneously, from both ahead and astern. The ship destroyed all 10, but not without damage to herself. One bomb hit aft, a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka hit, and two kamikaze crashes were inflicted on the ship as her gunners ran low on ammunition. Finally, as the attack ended, all but 50 of the crew were ordered over the side in life rafts, the remaining men fighting fires and working to control the damage. Though her engineering spaces were flooded and she was badly holed, Hugh W. Hadley was kept afloat by her damage control parties and eventually arrived at Ie Shima. The days action took the lives of 28 crew members, and wounded 67 more.
During this battle. Hadley had succeeded in downing some 23 enemy aircraft and aided in destroying several others. After temporary repairs, the ship was taken to Kerama Retto on 14 May, where men from repair ship Zaniah worked on her battered hull. Hadley subsequently was taken to Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in a floating drydock towed by Avoyel on 15 July 1945, and after 20 days there began the long voyage under tow of the US Navy tug ATA 199 to the United States. After encountering heavy weather during the passage the ship arrived at Hunter's Point, California, via Pearl Harbor, 26 September 1945. She was deemed as being too damaged to be repaired and was decommissioned on 15 December 1945.
Radar Picket Station 15 off Okinawa on 11 May 1945. "Starboard side pumping was futile. Bomb exploded beneath the ship humping the keel about 54 inches with many holes, breaking both shafts, driving one back into the rudder."
Looking aft at portside: nothing is left of the quad 40MM except the geared base ring. The mount crew was KIA.
Damage to the starboard side.
Top of the aft deck house
Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774) after completion in the outer harbour of San Pedro, California (USA), on 11 December 1944. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 32 Design 25D.
After shakedown training off the coast of California, Hugh W. Hadley sailed 21 February 1945 in company with HMS Ranee for Pearl Harbor. The ships arrived 27 February, but Hugh W. Hadley was soon underway again, sailing eight days later for Ulithi and the great Okinawa invasion.
The ship departed in company with a large group of LST's and their escorts on 25 March bound for the Japanese island stronghold, and arrived off the Okinawa group on 31 March. As the night approach was made, Hadley led a group of LST's toward the beach, shooting down an attacking Japanese plane en route. The destroyer escorted her charges safely to the beach, watched them unload their troops and equipment the morning of 1 April, and then took up antisubmarine patrol station outside the transport area. As the bitter fighting ashore continued, Hadley helped protect against submarines and aircraft as the Japanese made a final effort to stop the invasion. The ship remained on patrol until 4 April, when she sailed with a group of transports to Saipan, arriving on 14 April.
Hadley was soon on her way back to Okinawa, however, and arrived from Saipan on 27 April to resume her outer patrol. For the next few days the destroyer fought off numerous air raids, picked up a downed fighter pilot, and carried out antisubmarine patrol. She went alongside the destroyer Brown on 1 May for transfer of communication equipment, and then took up additional duties as a fighter direction ship for the Combat Air Patrols, so vital to the invasion's air cover.
As radar picket ships were scarce, Hadley was assigned this duty on the afternoon of 10 May. Joining destroyer Evans and four smaller craft, she took station 15 west of Okinawa and early the next morning began vectoring aircraft to meet the oncoming Japanese. For nearly two hours the morning of 11 May, Hadley and Evans came under severe attack, as the Japanese mounted their sixth attack against American forces at Okinawa. Both ships maneuvered at high speed, downing many kamikazes and directing air attacks on formations of Japanese. The attackers numbered some 150 planes. After Evans took several serious hits and went dead in the water about 0900, Hadley fought on alone. At 0920, she was attacked by 10 planes simultaneously, from both ahead and astern. The ship destroyed all 10, but not without damage to herself. One bomb hit aft, a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka hit, and two kamikaze crashes were inflicted on the ship as her gunners ran low on ammunition. Finally, as the attack ended, all but 50 of the crew were ordered over the side in life rafts, the remaining men fighting fires and working to control the damage. Though her engineering spaces were flooded and she was badly holed, Hugh W. Hadley was kept afloat by her damage control parties and eventually arrived at Ie Shima. The days action took the lives of 28 crew members, and wounded 67 more.
During this battle. Hadley had succeeded in downing some 23 enemy aircraft and aided in destroying several others. After temporary repairs, the ship was taken to Kerama Retto on 14 May, where men from repair ship Zaniah worked on her battered hull. Hadley subsequently was taken to Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in a floating drydock towed by Avoyel on 15 July 1945, and after 20 days there began the long voyage under tow of the US Navy tug ATA 199 to the United States. After encountering heavy weather during the passage the ship arrived at Hunter's Point, California, via Pearl Harbor, 26 September 1945. She was deemed as being too damaged to be repaired and was decommissioned on 15 December 1945.
Radar Picket Station 15 off Okinawa on 11 May 1945. "Starboard side pumping was futile. Bomb exploded beneath the ship humping the keel about 54 inches with many holes, breaking both shafts, driving one back into the rudder."
Looking aft at portside: nothing is left of the quad 40MM except the geared base ring. The mount crew was KIA.
Damage to the starboard side.
Top of the aft deck house
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Future Commencement Bay class escort carrier USS Tinian (CVE-123) underway during trials, February 21, 1946
Built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Tacoma, WA, laid down in March, 1945, launched on September 5, 1945, and completed in early 1946. As she was completed after the end of World War Two, she was surplus to requirements, and was immediately laid up in reserve upon being accepted by the Navy in July, 1946. Tinian was never commissioned, being redesignated a helicopter escort carrier in June, 1955, with her classification symbol being changed to CVHE, and subsequently being downrated to an aircraft transport in May, 1959, with a new hull number of AKV-23. Her only voyage was when she was towed from the Tacoma reserve group that was being closed out to San Diego in 1958. The unused carrier was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on June 1, 1970, and sold for scrap in December, 1971.
Future Commencement Bay class escort carrier USS Tinian (CVE-123) underway during trials, February 21, 1946
Built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Tacoma, WA, laid down in March, 1945, launched on September 5, 1945, and completed in early 1946. As she was completed after the end of World War Two, she was surplus to requirements, and was immediately laid up in reserve upon being accepted by the Navy in July, 1946. Tinian was never commissioned, being redesignated a helicopter escort carrier in June, 1955, with her classification symbol being changed to CVHE, and subsequently being downrated to an aircraft transport in May, 1959, with a new hull number of AKV-23. Her only voyage was when she was towed from the Tacoma reserve group that was being closed out to San Diego in 1958. The unused carrier was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on June 1, 1970, and sold for scrap in December, 1971.
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USN, Japan, Sth Korea:
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), Murasame-class destroyer JS Kirisame (DD 104), and Sejong the Great-class guided-missile destroyer ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991) sail off Jeju Island, South Korea during a trilateral maritime exercise. Nov 26, 2023
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104), Murasame-class destroyer JS Kirisame (DD 104), and Sejong the Great-class guided-missile destroyer ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991) sail off Jeju Island, South Korea during a trilateral maritime exercise. Nov 26, 2023
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Fletcher-class destroyer USS Bryant (DD-665), Charleston Navy Yard, January 7 1944.
On 1 April, 1945 Bryant started two weeks of radar picket duty. Her relatively quiet patrols contrasted with the grim experiences of destroyers on station elsewhere. On 16 April, however, her luck changed. That morning, the Japanese launched a 165-plane kamikaze mission, the third of 10 kikusui or "floating chrysanthemum" attacks launched during the Okinawa campaign. Laffey suffered the first and most intense attack of the day, being struck by no less than six kamikazes, four bombs, and numerous near misses. Bryant received word that Laffey required assistance and rushed to aid her. After turning back sporadic attacks, she found herself the target of a coordinated attack by six enemy planes. First, three "Zeke" fighters closed the warship in a shallow glide. Her port batteries dispatched one, and the CAP splashed another; but the third attacker, though hit repeatedly and trailing smoke, made it through and crashed into Bryant just below the bridge near the main radio room. A bomb from the kamikaze then exploded, engulfing the entire bridge in flames and doing major damage to communication, fire-control and radar equipment. Damage control teams, standing by to assist Laffey, extinguished the major fires within a couple of minutes and soon the wounded destroyer was making 23 knots (43 km/h). Still, despite the prompt response, the attack exacted a heavy toll. In addition to her human casualties, 34 dead and 33 wounded, the destroyer suffered material damage enough to require repairs in the United States, and so she limped back to Kerama Retto to begin temporary repairs.
Fletcher-class destroyer USS Bryant (DD-665), Charleston Navy Yard, January 7 1944.
On 1 April, 1945 Bryant started two weeks of radar picket duty. Her relatively quiet patrols contrasted with the grim experiences of destroyers on station elsewhere. On 16 April, however, her luck changed. That morning, the Japanese launched a 165-plane kamikaze mission, the third of 10 kikusui or "floating chrysanthemum" attacks launched during the Okinawa campaign. Laffey suffered the first and most intense attack of the day, being struck by no less than six kamikazes, four bombs, and numerous near misses. Bryant received word that Laffey required assistance and rushed to aid her. After turning back sporadic attacks, she found herself the target of a coordinated attack by six enemy planes. First, three "Zeke" fighters closed the warship in a shallow glide. Her port batteries dispatched one, and the CAP splashed another; but the third attacker, though hit repeatedly and trailing smoke, made it through and crashed into Bryant just below the bridge near the main radio room. A bomb from the kamikaze then exploded, engulfing the entire bridge in flames and doing major damage to communication, fire-control and radar equipment. Damage control teams, standing by to assist Laffey, extinguished the major fires within a couple of minutes and soon the wounded destroyer was making 23 knots (43 km/h). Still, despite the prompt response, the attack exacted a heavy toll. In addition to her human casualties, 34 dead and 33 wounded, the destroyer suffered material damage enough to require repairs in the United States, and so she limped back to Kerama Retto to begin temporary repairs.
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