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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) launched the ninth Mogami-class guided-missile frigate ordered by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) on Monday 24th June .
The future JS Natori is scheduled for delivery and commissioning in 2025, with the entire fleet of 12 warships planned for induction by 2028.
MHI and its subsidiary Maritime Systems are building the vessels in Nagasaki and Tamano at a rate of two per year.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) launched the ninth Mogami-class guided-missile frigate ordered by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) on Monday 24th June .
The future JS Natori is scheduled for delivery and commissioning in 2025, with the entire fleet of 12 warships planned for induction by 2028.
MHI and its subsidiary Maritime Systems are building the vessels in Nagasaki and Tamano at a rate of two per year.
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Clemson class destroyer USS Simpson (DD-221) off San Pablo, CA, c. 1920-21
Lead ship of her class of battleships, USS Colorado (BB-45) at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, 5 April 1928
Clemson class destroyer USS Simpson (DD-221) off San Pablo, CA, c. 1920-21
Lead ship of her class of battleships, USS Colorado (BB-45) at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, 5 April 1928
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Denmark:
HDMS Sehested (P 547) a Willemoes-class fast attack craft of the Royal Danish Navy which was in commission from 1978 until 2000. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum
HDMS Sehested (P 547) a Willemoes-class fast attack craft of the Royal Danish Navy which was in commission from 1978 until 2000. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum
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Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. June 25, 2024
Arleigh Burke class destroyers, Flight IIA USS Sterett (DDG 104), right, pierside with Flight IIA USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) and Flight IA Technology Insertion USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. June 26, 2024
An AH-1Z Viper and an MH-60S Sea Hawk patrol as Name ship of class of amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) transits the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea, June 26, 2024.
Amphibious Combat Vehicles attached to Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct amphibious operations with name ship of her class of amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, Japan, June 26, 2024.
Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) while underway in the Pacific Ocean for RIMPAC 2024, June 26, 2024
Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. June 25, 2024
Arleigh Burke class destroyers, Flight IIA USS Sterett (DDG 104), right, pierside with Flight IIA USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) and Flight IA Technology Insertion USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. June 26, 2024
An AH-1Z Viper and an MH-60S Sea Hawk patrol as Name ship of class of amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) transits the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea, June 26, 2024.
Amphibious Combat Vehicles attached to Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct amphibious operations with name ship of her class of amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, Japan, June 26, 2024.
Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) while underway in the Pacific Ocean for RIMPAC 2024, June 26, 2024
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Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) surfaces through the ice in the Beaufort Sea on March 18, 2018, as she participates in Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018
Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) surfaces through the ice in the Beaufort Sea on March 18, 2018, as she participates in Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018
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Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS St. Louis (LCS-19) in the 4th Fleet Area of Operations (South, Central America & Caribbean) with HSM-50 Det. 4 and USCG Law Enforcement Detachment 105. June, 2024
Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS St. Louis (LCS-19) in the 4th Fleet Area of Operations (South, Central America & Caribbean) with HSM-50 Det. 4 and USCG Law Enforcement Detachment 105. June, 2024
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Regina Margherita-class pre-dreadnought battleship Benedetto Brin in Taranto, 1913.
Played an active role in the Turko-Italian War, serving as a squadron flagship and carrying out bombardment of Tripoli. Later, the squadron found and severed several Turkish cables in the Aegean and bombarded the defenses of the Dardanelles. When Italy entered WWI in 1915, Benedetto Brin was considered obsolescent and relegated to the role of training ship. On 27 September 1915, while at anchor at Brindisi, the ship was destroyed by an internal explosion. 454 men including Rear Admiral Ernesto Rubin de Cervin were killed. At the time and for many years after it was thought that the explosion was the result of Austro-Hungarian sabotage. It is now thought to have been of accidental origin.
Regina Margherita-class pre-dreadnought battleship Benedetto Brin in Taranto, 1913.
Played an active role in the Turko-Italian War, serving as a squadron flagship and carrying out bombardment of Tripoli. Later, the squadron found and severed several Turkish cables in the Aegean and bombarded the defenses of the Dardanelles. When Italy entered WWI in 1915, Benedetto Brin was considered obsolescent and relegated to the role of training ship. On 27 September 1915, while at anchor at Brindisi, the ship was destroyed by an internal explosion. 454 men including Rear Admiral Ernesto Rubin de Cervin were killed. At the time and for many years after it was thought that the explosion was the result of Austro-Hungarian sabotage. It is now thought to have been of accidental origin.
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Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18), showing damage to the carrier's bow from her 26 April 1952 collision with Gleaves-class destroyer USS Hobson (DMS-26)
During the night of 26 April 1952 at 2220, Hobson was steaming in formation with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) and destroyers USS Rodman (DD-456) and USS Ross (DD-563) about 900 kilometres (490 nmi) southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland during night flight operations en route to Gibraltar. Hobson was moving at 24 knots and following the carrier 3,000 yards off her starboard quarter with Rodman following Wasp off her port quarter. Hobson's commanding officer, Lt. Comdr. William J. Tierney, had been in command of the ship for 5 weeks. He anticipated that Wasp, preparing to recover her aircraft at 2300, would change course to 250–260 degrees to bring the carrier into the wind, necessary for the aircraft landings. The destroyer's executive officer, Lt. William A. Hoefer, was on the bridge with the conn and control of the ship when Tierney outlined a course to manoeuvre Hobson ahead of Wasp and then come up on the massive carrier's port quarter as the destroyer's new station. Rodman would move to the starboard quarter as her new station. Hoefer, who had been on Hobson for 16 months, was immediately concerned when he saw Tierney's plan and turned the conn over to Lt. Donald Cummings, so that he could voice his opposition and belief that Tierney's manoeuvre would put the two ships on a collision course. Since Wasp had to turn to starboard to recover aircraft, the trailing destroyer had two options, slow down and let Wasp turn, the conventional method, or cross in front of the carrier. A heated argument ensued that Hoefer lost and he strode off the bridge to the outside wing to cool off.
Meanwhile, Wasp's commanding officer, Capt. Burnham C. McCaffree, was on his bridge, where Lt. Robert Herbst had the conn and ordered right standard rudder and flank speed to bring the carrier into the wind. McCaffree observed the red aircraft warning lights of the two destroyers and believed that they were also beginning the evolution. Tierney, now in control of Hobson ordered right standard rudder and a course of 130 degrees. The wind shifted and McCaffree ordered a necessary course change from 260 to 250 degrees to head into the wind. At that time Wasp's surface radar failed, while on Hobson, the port pelorus was fogged, thus preventing an accurate bearing on Wasp. McCaffree notified the destroyers of his course change, but it is unclear whether anyone on Hobson's bridge heard the communication. Tierney, without disclosing his intention, was going to put the Hobson into a Williamson turn that would bring the ship back to the point she had been. Tierney suddenly ordered full left rudder and within 30 seconds ordered full right rudder. Hoefer rushed back onto Hobson's bridge when he realized what Tierney was doing and yelled "Prepare for collision!, Prepare for collision!" At that moment, Tierney ordered left full rudder, intending to race ahead of Wasp which was bearing down on the destroyer. Aboard Wasp, Lt. Herbst told Capt. McCaffree, "We're in trouble" as McCaffree ordered "all back emergency."
At first it looked as though Hobson might escape the massive carrier as her bow and number-one stack moved past the carrier's course, but then there was a horrendous, grinding crash as Wasp struck Hobson amidships. The force of the collision rolled the destroyer-minesweeper over onto her port side, breaking her in two. The aft section of Hobson trailed alongside of the carrier while the forward half was temporarily lodged in the Wasp's bow. The aft part of the ship sank first but 40 of the survivors came from that section as men were literally shot out of a scuttle hatch they had managed to open, propelled by the force of water and expelling air. Aboard the carrier, life rafts were being dropped over and lines lowered. One set of double rafts fell on top of a cluster of five men who were never seen again. One lucky man, a chief petty officer in the bow, managed to grab a pipe protruding from Wasp just as Hobson's bow began her descent under the waves and leaped onto Wasp without getting wet. Survival for the rest of Hobson's crew in the thick, glutinous fuel oil was incredible, yet it happened for some. Rodman and Wasp pulled aboard 61 oil-coated survivors, but the destroyer and 176 of her crew including Tierney, who dove from the bridge into the sea moments before the carrier plowed into Hobson, were lost in less than five minutes. Most of the deceased crew were recovered by Ross and placed on the blood soaked main deck. This horrific incident brought about the tragic end of the destroyer-minesweeper's valiant service
Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18), showing damage to the carrier's bow from her 26 April 1952 collision with Gleaves-class destroyer USS Hobson (DMS-26)
During the night of 26 April 1952 at 2220, Hobson was steaming in formation with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) and destroyers USS Rodman (DD-456) and USS Ross (DD-563) about 900 kilometres (490 nmi) southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland during night flight operations en route to Gibraltar. Hobson was moving at 24 knots and following the carrier 3,000 yards off her starboard quarter with Rodman following Wasp off her port quarter. Hobson's commanding officer, Lt. Comdr. William J. Tierney, had been in command of the ship for 5 weeks. He anticipated that Wasp, preparing to recover her aircraft at 2300, would change course to 250–260 degrees to bring the carrier into the wind, necessary for the aircraft landings. The destroyer's executive officer, Lt. William A. Hoefer, was on the bridge with the conn and control of the ship when Tierney outlined a course to manoeuvre Hobson ahead of Wasp and then come up on the massive carrier's port quarter as the destroyer's new station. Rodman would move to the starboard quarter as her new station. Hoefer, who had been on Hobson for 16 months, was immediately concerned when he saw Tierney's plan and turned the conn over to Lt. Donald Cummings, so that he could voice his opposition and belief that Tierney's manoeuvre would put the two ships on a collision course. Since Wasp had to turn to starboard to recover aircraft, the trailing destroyer had two options, slow down and let Wasp turn, the conventional method, or cross in front of the carrier. A heated argument ensued that Hoefer lost and he strode off the bridge to the outside wing to cool off.
Meanwhile, Wasp's commanding officer, Capt. Burnham C. McCaffree, was on his bridge, where Lt. Robert Herbst had the conn and ordered right standard rudder and flank speed to bring the carrier into the wind. McCaffree observed the red aircraft warning lights of the two destroyers and believed that they were also beginning the evolution. Tierney, now in control of Hobson ordered right standard rudder and a course of 130 degrees. The wind shifted and McCaffree ordered a necessary course change from 260 to 250 degrees to head into the wind. At that time Wasp's surface radar failed, while on Hobson, the port pelorus was fogged, thus preventing an accurate bearing on Wasp. McCaffree notified the destroyers of his course change, but it is unclear whether anyone on Hobson's bridge heard the communication. Tierney, without disclosing his intention, was going to put the Hobson into a Williamson turn that would bring the ship back to the point she had been. Tierney suddenly ordered full left rudder and within 30 seconds ordered full right rudder. Hoefer rushed back onto Hobson's bridge when he realized what Tierney was doing and yelled "Prepare for collision!, Prepare for collision!" At that moment, Tierney ordered left full rudder, intending to race ahead of Wasp which was bearing down on the destroyer. Aboard Wasp, Lt. Herbst told Capt. McCaffree, "We're in trouble" as McCaffree ordered "all back emergency."
At first it looked as though Hobson might escape the massive carrier as her bow and number-one stack moved past the carrier's course, but then there was a horrendous, grinding crash as Wasp struck Hobson amidships. The force of the collision rolled the destroyer-minesweeper over onto her port side, breaking her in two. The aft section of Hobson trailed alongside of the carrier while the forward half was temporarily lodged in the Wasp's bow. The aft part of the ship sank first but 40 of the survivors came from that section as men were literally shot out of a scuttle hatch they had managed to open, propelled by the force of water and expelling air. Aboard the carrier, life rafts were being dropped over and lines lowered. One set of double rafts fell on top of a cluster of five men who were never seen again. One lucky man, a chief petty officer in the bow, managed to grab a pipe protruding from Wasp just as Hobson's bow began her descent under the waves and leaped onto Wasp without getting wet. Survival for the rest of Hobson's crew in the thick, glutinous fuel oil was incredible, yet it happened for some. Rodman and Wasp pulled aboard 61 oil-coated survivors, but the destroyer and 176 of her crew including Tierney, who dove from the bridge into the sea moments before the carrier plowed into Hobson, were lost in less than five minutes. Most of the deceased crew were recovered by Ross and placed on the blood soaked main deck. This horrific incident brought about the tragic end of the destroyer-minesweeper's valiant service
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