Monthly Archives: April 2022

Spanish Navy training ship Juan Sebastian De Elcano arrives at Naval Base Guam, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021.

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USS NEW ORLEANS (Protected Cruiser/PG 34/CL 22)

Starboard broadside view of the USS New Orleans underway circa 1899, soon after being commissioned. Library of Congress, Photo #LC-D4-5521 USS New Orleans (later designated PG-34 then CL-22) was a United States Navy protected cruiser of the New Orleans class. She was laid down in 1895 as Amazonas for the Brazilian Navy by Armstrong, Mitchell and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, launched on 4 December 1896, purchased by the U.S. Navy while buildingContinue reading “USS NEW ORLEANS (Protected Cruiser/PG 34/CL 22)”

Double Rafale launch on the Charles de Gaulle, 2018.

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Russian salvage ship Kommuna | Commissioned in 1915 it is the oldest ship in the Russian Navy, still in service.

Kommuna has been lately used to salvage material from the Russian flagship Moskva, which sunk on 14 April Kommuna is a submarine salvage ship in service with the Russian Navy‘s Black Sea Fleet. A double-hulled catamaran, she was laid down at the Putilov Factory (now the Kirov Factory) in St. Petersburg in November 1912 as Volkhov. The ship was launched the following year, and commissioned on 14 July 1915. She wasContinue reading “Russian salvage ship Kommuna | Commissioned in 1915 it is the oldest ship in the Russian Navy, still in service.”

USS Peleliu (LHA-5) is a Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy, named for the Battle of Peleliu of World War II.

Entering service in 1980, she has been deployed to the Persian Gulf on several occasions, performed an evacuation of U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, operated with the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, participated in Pacific Partnership deployments, and provided assistance following the massive floods in Pakistan in 2010. She was decommissioned in San Diego, California on 31 March 2015. She currentlyContinue reading “USS Peleliu (LHA-5) is a Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy, named for the Battle of Peleliu of World War II.”