USN:
USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) Arleigh Burke-class Flight I guided missile destroyer leaving San Diego on sea trials after 11-month SRA - December 8, 2023
USS Montgomery (LCS 8) Independence-variant littoral combat ship coming into San Diego - December 8, 2023
RN:
September 1941, battleship HMS Duke of York is berthed in the John Brown & Co. shipyard during her acceptance trials. She will enter combat service with the Royal Navy 6 months later.
Type III Hunt class destroyer HMS Blean. Commissioned 23 August 1942, sunk 11 December 1942
While escorting the British convoy MKF-4 off the Algerian coast, Blean was torpedoed by U-443 on 11 December 1942 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Oran. The U-boat aimed one torpedo against her and then one against the convoy, but both hit Blean and she sank within four minutes with the loss of 89 men
Sweden:
Svea class coastal defence ship converted to submarine depot ship Svea with the submarines Valen, Walrossen, Gripen, Illern and Uttern at Karlskronavarvet, 1930
USN:
Dec. 2, 2023, The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) arrives in Souda Bay, Crete, for a scheduled port visit
Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) coming into San Diego. Dec 11, 2023
Nimitz class carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt (CV-71) tied up adjacent to USS Abraham Lincoln (CV-72) in North San Diego Bay. Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) in the foreground. Dec 2023
Italy:
Littorio-class battleship Vittorio Veneto on trials, 1940
bBattleship Giulio Cesare after a hit from battleship HMS Warspite during the Battle of Calabria, 9-Jul-1940. The 15 in shell (381 mm) hit the Italian ship from around 13 NM (24 km)
"Shells from Giulio Cesare began to straddle Warspite which made a small turn and increased speed, to throw off the Italian ship's aim, at 16:00. Some rounds fired by Giulio Cesare overshot Warspite and near-missed the destroyers HMS Decoy and Hereward, puncturing their superstructures with splinters. At that same time, a shell from Warspite struck Giulio Cesare at a distance of about 24,000 meters (26,000 yd). The shell pierced the rear funnel and detonated inside it, blowing out a hole nearly 6.1 meters (20 ft) across. Fragments started several fires and their smoke was drawn into the boiler rooms, forcing four boilers off-line as their operators could not breathe. This reduced the ship's speed to 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). Uncertain how severe the damage was, Campioni ordered his battleships to turn away in the face of superior British numbers and they successfully disengaged"
Finland:
Hamina-class missile boats Pori (83), Hamina (80), Hanko, Tornio The 2018-2023 mid-life update completed by Patria updated their sensor and weapons fit, and added a variable-depth sonar, giving these small (250-tonne) ships credible air-defense, anti-ship and ASW capabilities. Dec 2023
Australia:
Hobart class destroyer HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41) in the Philippine Sea. Nov 19, 2023
HMA Ship’s Brisbane and Stalwart’s embarked MH-60R helicopters ‘Chaos’ and ‘Boomerang’ conduct a fly-past of the ships in the Philippine Sea during ANNUALEX 2023. HMA Ships Brisbane and Stalwart and a Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon conducted the multilateral Exercise ANNUALEX in November 2023 as part of a regional presence deployment in Southeast and Northeast Asia.
USN:
Flight II Los Angeles class submarine USS Jefferson City (SSN-759)(bottom) leads ships during joint navigational maneuvers with the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (top left), Spruance class destroyer USS Hewitt (DD-966) (top center), and California-class cruiser USS California (CGN-36) (top right), during operations in the Persian Gulf on 22 September 1996.
Russia:
Project 955A Borey-A (NATO Dolgorukiy) class SSBN Imperator Alexandr III (K-554) & Project 08851 Yasen-M (NATO Severodvinsk II) class SSGN Krasnoyarsk (K-571) were formally commissioned at SEVMASH Shipyard in Severodvinsk. 11 Dec 2023
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