Monthly Archives: March 2021

 Forced to depart China when her homeport at Hankow was in immediate danger of falling to Japanese troops, the Oahu and her crew joined with other river gunboats for a highly dangerous cross-ocean voyage to the Philippines on December 2nd, 1941, arriving in Manila on December 10th. With war having been declared while she wasContinue reading “USS Oahu – Laid down in 1927 in Shanghai as a River Gunboat for use in the shallow rivers and coastal waters of China, USS Oahu operated as part of the Yangtze Patrol Force from her October 1928 commissioning through December 1941, during the latter part of which she operated in highly contested war zones between the Nationalist Chinese and Imperial Japan.”

HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) was the name ship of her class of two battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. They were the first battleships built to meet the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Entering service in 1927, the ship spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and HomeContinue reading “Battleship HMS Nelson underway, part of the Wright & Logan Collection.”

Surcouf was the largest French cruiser submarine. She served in both the French Navy and the Free French Naval Forces during the Second World War. She was lost during the night of 18/19 February 1942 in the Caribbean Sea, possibly after colliding with an American freighter. Surcouf was named after the French privateer Robert Surcouf. She was the largest submarine built until surpassed by the firstContinue reading “French Submarine Le Surcouf showing off the 8″ guns.”

A U.S. Navy MH-60S helicopter lies upside down on the deck of a contracted salvage vessel off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, March 18. The helo, which crashed into the Philippine Sea Jan. 25, 2020, was pulled from a depth of 19,075 feet by NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving at the request of theContinue reading “Navy recovers MH-60S helicopter, nearly 20,000 feet underwater, in new record – Diana Stancy Correll”

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