Monthly Archives: December 2025

General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers Oiler USNS Lucy Stone to Navy

Mallory Shelbourne – December 17, 2025 6:12 PM General Dynamics NASSCO delivered a fleet replenishment oiler to the U.S. Navy on Tuesday, the service announced. USNS Lucy Stone (T-AO-209) recently finished sea trials and is now in the Navy’s possession, according to a service news release. “General Dynamics NASSCO is also in production on the following T-AOs:Continue reading “General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers Oiler USNS Lucy Stone to Navy”

British Fairey Barracuda Mk. II torpedo bomber from 814 Naval Air Squadron flies over the British aircraft carrier HMS Venerable (R63) and the destroyer Alfredo Oriani of the Italian allied fleet (Marina Cobelligerante Italiana).May 1945

In pictures: Submarine-hunting HMS Somerset home for Xmas after eight months away

Emma Turton – 18th December 2025 at 10:46am Ending a busy year with more than eight months away from her home port on national tasking, HMS Somerset has returned to Plymouth. Her taskings have included operations tracking Russian vessels – including the Yantar – in UK waters, working alongside Nato allies, and the firing of the first NavalContinue reading “In pictures: Submarine-hunting HMS Somerset home for Xmas after eight months away”

HMS Raleigh was one of five Hawkins-class heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War, although the ship was not completed until 1921. She was assigned to the North America and West Indies Station when she commissioned and often served as a flagship. After visiting ports in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and both coasts of the United States and Canada in 1921–1922, Raleigh ran aground off Newfoundland in August 1922 with the loss of a dozen crewmen. The ship was partially salvaged in place and was demolished with explosives in 1926, although she remains a diveable wreck in very shallow water.

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HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.

She was built at HM Dockyard Portsmouth. She was launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 December 1968. She took part in the Falklands War and was sold to India in 1995, for use as a training ship, being renamed INS Krishna. She was finally decommissioned in May 2012.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Andromeda_(F57)Continue reading “HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.”