USAF:
USAF Rising Star (TG-71-9001). Homeported at Thule Air Base in Greenland and kept on land for nine months out of the year, it is the USAF's only tugboat
Italy:
Destroyer Espero undergoing underway refuelling from the heavy cruiser Trento, while sailing in the Indian Ocean bound for Shanghai, in late February 1932
A smokescreen being deployed by the destroyer Corazziere, perhaps during the Battle of Cape Teulada (Spartivento)
Corvette Danaide, on the left, sailing alongside the light cruiser Duca degli Abruzzi, in the 1950s
USN:
U.S. Army Hospital Ship "Relief" view in one of the ship’s wards, 1898, with a large skylight in the upper right.
Mare Island Navy Yard, 1904. USS Grampus (SS-4) on the right and USS Pike (SS-6) at left. Note the bow of the former 90 gun ship of the line USS Independence (1814), in use as a receiving ship, on the far right
U.S. Fleet at anchor in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during manoeuvres, circa 1927
USN:
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 15, 2017) The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) as seen from Landing Craft Unit 1643, attached to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2, during humanitarian assistance efforts following Hurricane Irma’s landfall in Key West, Florida. The Department of Defense is supporting Federal Emergency Management Agency, the lead agency, in helping those affixed by Hurricane Irma to minimize suffering and as one component of the overall whole-of-government response efforts. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Lehman/Released)
USS Saidor (CVE-117) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
Originally named the Saltery Bay, she was renamed on 5 June 1944, was laid down on 29 September 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Washington; launched on 17 March 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Walter F. Boone; and commissioned on 4 September 1945, Capt. A. P. Storrs in command.
USN:
Guided missile cruiser USS Canberra (CAG-2) underway on 9 January 1961. Note her radar arrangement: CXRX was moved forward from the mainmast, SPS-29 was fitted on the mainmast and SPS-13 was fitted aft. Canberra was the only ship ever equipped with SPS-13.
HMS L55 was a British L class submarine built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Clyde. She was laid down on 21 September 1917 and was commissioned on 19 December 1918.
HMS L55 was based at Tallinn, Estonia as part of the Baltic Battle Squadron which was part of intervention force in Russian civil war.
On 9 June 1919 in Caporsky Bay in the Gulf of Finland L55 attacked two 1,260-ton Bolshevik Orfey-class minelayer-destroyers, Gavril and Azard. HMS L55 missed her targets and was forced into a British-laid minefield. Soviet sources stated Azard sank her by gunfire but she was finished by a British mine.
The Soviets raised her on 11 August 1928. The remains of 34 crew members were returned to Britain and buried in a communal grave at Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery in Portsmouth on 7 September 1928.
The boat was rebuilt by Baltic Works, Leningrad, the reconstruction cost 1 million roubles. She was recommissioned as a Soviet submarine with the same number (L-55) on 7 August 1931. She was later renamed Bezbozhnik ("Atheist") and was used as the basis of design for the Soviet L-class submarines and for training. In 1941 she was damaged during bombardment of Leningrad by German artillery. She was decomissioned from Soviet navy in 1953 and scrapped around 1960.
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