BySeaWaves Magazine – May 13, 2026 20% Production completed – Since the ship’s arrival, this work has progressed at pace and passing this point has accumulated in more than 220,000 Production hours reached. CIC Foundation completed – With the Combat Information Centre dismantled, all new major foundations and equipment mounting points have been fitted. ThisContinue reading “BAE Systems Updates HMAS Hobart Modernization Progress”
Monthly Archives: May 2026
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) underway.
Bon Homme Richard, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 19 (CVW-19), was deployed to Vietnam from 21 April 1965 to 13 January 1966.
HMNZS Otago with me onboard – 1963
HMS Plymouth (F126), HMAS Vendetta (D08), HMS Salisbury (F32), HMS Cambrian (D85), HMS Albion (R07), HMAS Quiberon (F03), HMNZS Otago (F111) and HMS Duchess (D154), Malaya, 1963 – Near Pulau Tioman, Pulau Aur in background. I was onboard Otago (F111)
Surcouf was the largest French cruiser submarine. She served in both the French Navy and the Free French Naval Forces during the Second World War. She was lost during the night of 18/19 February 1942 in the Caribbean Sea, possibly after colliding with an American freighter. Surcouf was named after the French privateer Robert Surcouf. She was the largest submarine built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1944.
Surcouf had a twin-gun turret with 203 mm (8-inch) guns, the same calibre as that of a heavy cruiser (the main reason of Surcouf being designated as croiseur sous-marin – “cruiser submarine”) provisioned with 600 rounds. Surcouf was designed as an “underwater heavy cruiser”, intended to seek and engage in surface combat.[1] For reconnaissance purposes,Continue reading “Surcouf was the largest French cruiser submarine. She served in both the French Navy and the Free French Naval Forces during the Second World War. She was lost during the night of 18/19 February 1942 in the Caribbean Sea, possibly after colliding with an American freighter. Surcouf was named after the French privateer Robert Surcouf. She was the largest submarine built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1944.”
HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) was the name ship of her class of two battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s.
They were the first battleships built to meet the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Entering service in 1927, the ship spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets, usually as the fleet flagship. During the early stages of Second World War, she searched for German commerce raiders, missed participating inContinue reading “HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) was the name ship of her class of two battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s.”
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