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Royal Navy’s heavy cruiser HMS Exeter taken by photographer Ernest ‘Red’ Hallen.Hallen managed to capture the ship from the Gamboa signal station, Panama, on 8th March, 1935, as the cruiser was returning to Bermuda from a goodwill trip along the west coast of South America.

A scaled-down version of the Country class cruisers, the York class Exeter carried six 8-inch guns and these were put into play several years later when the 8,390-ton ship took part in action against the German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the River Plate. The British cruiser was sunk on 1st March, 1942, by JapaneseContinue reading “Royal Navy’s heavy cruiser HMS Exeter taken by photographer Ernest ‘Red’ Hallen.Hallen managed to capture the ship from the Gamboa signal station, Panama, on 8th March, 1935, as the cruiser was returning to Bermuda from a goodwill trip along the west coast of South America.”

HMAS Canberra (I33/D33) 1932

HMAS Canberra (I33/D33), named after the Australian capital city of Canberra, was a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class of County-class cruisers. Constructed in Scotland during the mid-1920s, the ship was commissioned in 1928, and spent the first part of her career primarily operating in Australian waters, with some deployments toContinue reading “HMAS Canberra (I33/D33) 1932”

USS Cowpens CV-25/CVL-25/AVT-1

July 17, 1943 USS Cowpens CVL-25. July 17, 1943 USS Cowpens CVL-25. August 31, 1944 USS Cowpens CVL-25 and USS Independence CVL-22 off Palaus. May 12, 1945 USS Cowpens CVL-25 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

HMAS Australia, Sydney 1917

HMAS Australia, Sydney 1917

HMAS Success and HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156)

HMAS Success and HMAS Toowoomba (FFH 156) HMAS Success