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USN – Guided-missile destroyer breaks record for longest time spent at sea

 Harm Venhuizen 7 hours ago 34 The guided-missile destroyer Stout travels alongside the amphibious assault ship Bataan during a transit through the Strait of Hormuz, May 31. (Cpl. Gary Jayne III/Marine Corps) The guided-missile destroyer Stout reached a record 208 days at sea Sept. 26 as part of a deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area ofContinue reading “USN – Guided-missile destroyer breaks record for longest time spent at sea”

Slava (Russian: Слава “Glory”) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships. Completed too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.

  Serving in the Baltic Sea during World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916.Continue reading “Slava (Russian: Слава “Glory”) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships. Completed too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War, she survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk during the battle or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy.”

Colourized image of the carrier HMS Furious seen in 1942. Originally built as a Battlecruiser, before conversion she was the only British warship to mount an 18in gun

  HMS Furious (British Aircraft Carrier, 1917-1948) At sea, circa 1935-36, with a flight of Blackburn “Baffin” torpedo planes overhead. HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by the First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Fisher,Continue reading “Colourized image of the carrier HMS Furious seen in 1942. Originally built as a Battlecruiser, before conversion she was the only British warship to mount an 18in gun”

OCEA launches research vessel for Nigeria

Shephard Media Latest Articlesby info@shephardmedia.com (Shephard Media) / 13h //keep unread//hide A new vessel for the Nigerian Navy was launched on 24 September at the OCEA shipyard in Les Sables d’Olonne, France. The hydrographic research vessel … VISIT WEBSITE from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/3mZ0E0r via IFTTT

It Only Took the Royal Navy 37 Years to Come Full Circle

 laststandonzombieisland 10h //keep unread//hide Is this article about aerospace?YESNO Once upon a time: HMS Ark Royal (R09) loaded with F-4 Phantoms and Buccaneers.  The country that in 1918 designed the first ocean-going aircraft carrier retired their last “big deck” flattop, the 53,000-ton HMS Ark Royal (R09) in 1979, taking the ability to support (F-4) Phantom FG.1s and Buccaneer S.2Continue reading “It Only Took the Royal Navy 37 Years to Come Full Circle”