Monthly Archives: June 2022

Early Cold War photo of USS Los Angeles in her postwar configuration while moored at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, taken April 10th, 1952. Note her tertiary/AAA battery is now comprised solely of 3″/50 twin mountings – From the US Naval Archive

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HMS Prince of Wales returned to Portsmouth today after NATO operations off the Spanish coast

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HMAS IBIS

  Built at Montrose Shipyard Ltd in Scotland for service with the Royal Navy, HMS SINGLETON, was acquired by the RAN to become HMAS IBIS. In general her service followed the same in-company path as her five RAN sister ships.   As a unit of the 16th Minesweeping Flotilla IBIS joined in the search forContinue reading “HMAS IBIS”

Okinawa, JAPAN (Mar. 5, 2015) Mine countermeasures ship USS Patriot (MCM 7) departs White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa. Patriot is assigned to Mine Countermeasures Squadron (MCMROM) 7 and Task Force (CTF) 76. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. David Levy/Released) – Mashū (AOE-425) is the lead ship of the Mashū-class replenishment ships of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 3 April 2006

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EVERETT, Wash. (Aug. 2, 2016) The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) departs Naval Station Everett to be part of Seattle Fleet Week during Seafair 2016. Seafair Fleet Week is an annual celebration of the sea services wherein Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen from visiting U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships and ships from Canada make the city a port of call. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joseph Montemarano/Released)

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