Monthly Archives: August 2021

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Edward Lundquist, Special Correspondent Capt. Bobby Summers, master of USNS Ericsson (T-AO 194), supervises a replenishment at sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s, helicopter destroyer JS Ise (DDH 182). Ericsson provides critical supplies to U.S. Navy and partner nations’ ships operating in the Indo-Pacific Region. MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND FAR EAST / JeyhContinue reading “Standard Replenishment: Navies Help Each Other at ‘Speed of Combat’”

Composite Squadron 26 (VC-26) aircraft on Sangamon in November 1942. USS Sangamon (CVE-26) was an escort carrier converted from an oiler, the second ship to carry her name. She was one of 12 Cimarron class oilers built on a joint Navy-Maritime Commission design later duplicated by the T3-S2-A1 type. Sangamon was laid down as Esso Trenton (MCContinue reading “USS Sangamon (CVE-26)”

November 1945, HMS PERSEUS in the Suez Canal on her way out to Join the BPF. Photo courtesy Maurice Ayling. History Laid down as a Colossus class Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier on June 1st 1942 at Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle and launched 26 March 1944. Her designation was changed, along with that of her sister ship PIONEER,Continue reading “HMS PERSEUS”

H.M.S. PIONEER January1945, HMS PIONEER at anchor during her builders trials.© IWM FL 17459 History Laid down as a Colossus class Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier on December 2nd 1942 at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness she was launched May 20th 1944. Her designation was changed, along with that of her sister ship PERSEUS, to Aircraft Maintenance Carrier whileContinue reading

One ship, four roles In the late 1930s the Royal Navy began looking at providing afloat support facilities to allow sustained operations by its armoured fleet carriers.  The proposals for meeting these needs included assembling a collection of repair, maintenance and depot ships that could follow the fleet (the very concept that became the FleetContinue reading “HMS UNICORN a unique vessel”